Gypsy On The Road

Christopher Arnott, New Haven Advocate Originally published October 11, 2007

Gypsy would be as dead as the burlesque world it portrays if it weren’t really a show about family. The venerable “musical fable” about the mother of all backstage mothers (and her stripper daughter) was brought into being by the Ethel Merman—the blowzy, bellowing Broadway icon who created the role of Mama Rose. But it’s a testament to the show’s solid construction that the role has been successfully reinterpreted by such non-Mermanesque performers as Angela Lansbury, Betty Buckley, Patti LuPone and Bernadette Peters.

Oct 11, 2007 10:06 AM - Click here to read full article.

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