Gypsy transferring
Gypsy transferring
MarkBearSF
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/11
#1Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 6:19pm
While Dainty June and her troupe never made it to Broadway, her show keeps coming back there again and again. And again.
http://www.playbill.com/article/imelda-staunton-gypsy-planning-broadway-transfer
Updated On: 11/25/16 at 06:19 PM
#2Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 6:33pm
Dainty June was on Broadway 14 times and has an off-broadway theatre named after her.
http://www.playbill.com/person/june-havoc-vault-0000013460
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#3Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 6:34pm
Since I can only assume it will be with the same director I can't say I'm overly excited for this transfer. Staunton had the opportunity to be wonderful in the role but spoiled it by playing the entire show with the kind of intensity that should be reserved for only a small handful of scenes. A new director might be able to recognize what could be and change the course of her performance, but that seems unlikely to happen if Jonathan Kent is back at the helm.
#4Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 6:40pm
I wonder if we'll ever get an age appropriate Mama Rose... A woman who believably has a ten year old child... instead of looking like her grandmother. If Imelda can play the role why not babs? Just saying...
#6Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 9:02pm
Arthur is turning in his grave. He would have been horrified by this production.
#7Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 9:56pm
To be fair he had harsh words for almost any production he didn't direct. And not just Gypsy.
#8Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 10:15pm
Hopefully Sutton Foster takes over for the whole cast!
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#9Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 10:18pm
Like... Imelda was fine. I thought the whole show was just fine. I don't understand why it needs to transfer to Broadway.
Whateverjsays
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/16
#10Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 10:20pm
I think we've had our fill with the PBS airing.... I'm not planning on seeing it in NYC
#11Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 10:34pm
I'm not entirely sure why we would care what Arthur would think about it.
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RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#12Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/25/16 at 11:50pm
I agree, I'm not sure WHY it is transferring? Is it for sure doing Broadway? Or is it maybe doing a St. Ann's Warehouse, etc type thing? I just don't seeing it being commercially viable on Broadway. But if it's coming over for like 6 months, I can understand that. I just didn't think the production itself was all that marvelous. Her performance was interesting, but the actual physical production felt a little too slick.
#13Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 12:17am
It apparently won some Olivier Awards for no reason.
#14Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 12:37am
Why? We hated most of it!
Why did Imelda play it so angry and all that shouting???
She looks like their grandmother NOT their mother.
All 3 strippers were terrible!
Rose's Turn was the only moment along with the last scene worth any bit of emotional impact.
This production has no redeeming qualities to warrant a move to Broadway.
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Updated On: 11/26/16 at 12:37 AM
eman02
Swing Joined: 12/29/10
#15Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 12:40am
This was terrible acted production and just lose money in America. I hope they rethink this awful idea. I saw the filmed version and it is a poor version of the superb never to be outdone 2008 Broadway revival with three incredible actors full of nuance and real complex characters and acting. The recent British production was 2 dimensional and ridiculous. I have no doubt they loved it on the West End but it will bomb bringing it to America.
#16Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 12:45am
Her age doesn't bother me at all, it's the psychosis she plays from start to finish that comes off forced and unpleasant. Also,the weakened choreography, weakened orchestrations, and claustrophobic physical production really does not make me want to see this transfer.
MarkBearSF
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/11
#17Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 1:30am
I rewatched the film on the PBS rebroadcast. One thing that struck me as off from the start was during "Some People" when she distastefully mugged "Miss Blueberry Pie" in the exact manner she was coaching June. Granted, part of Rose is her insistent blindness to her actions, but that expression communicated she was sick of the schtick and considered it fake.
I'm far from the position of becoming an accredited investor and will never be in the position to do so, but if I were, this is NOT something that I'd expect to make money.
Updated On: 11/26/16 at 01:30 AM
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#18Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 1:49am
Has a revival of Gypsy ever made money? On the West End or here? I mean, this seems silly for a commercial transfer.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#19Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 8:10am
It was great in the theatre. Absolutely great. The favorite of all of the Roses I've seen (Lansbury, Daly, Peters, Buckley and Lupone). Her performance was not modulated for the TV cameras, and it doesn't have the same magic. Not sure who else they would bring over, but with an American cast surrounding her, I wouldn't be so quick to snub it.
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#20Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 12:16pm
It apparently won some Olivier Awards for no reason.
Different strokes for different folks. Awards, or lack there of, don't make something unquestionably good or bad.
Vectorbabe
Chorus Member Joined: 10/14/12
#21Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 2:54pm
I would love a revival of "Marathon 33". It got overshadowed by the movie "They Shoot Horses, Don't They" but it was a great show.
#22Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 3:00pm
I couldn't believe just how painfully unfunny this was since Staunton's comedy on the SWEENEY recording is top notch. I thoroughly hated everything about her performance on the PBS broadcast, the singing, the mugging, the total lack of chemistry with everyone else on stage. And Pulver's Louise was just as unremarkable. What a waste of a revival when so many incredible American actresses would knock this out of the park.
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Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#23Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 3:04pm
I still can't see why anyone -- including non-profits -- would invest significant bucks to showcase someone who most people this side of the pond have no desperate yearning to see as Rose. If I am ever going to see Gypsy again -- it is one of my favorites, but I am really OD'ed on Gypsy right now -- it had better have someone risky like (and don't discount them so quickly) Kristen Chenoweth (who I think could be great), Audra MacDonald, Idina Menzel, Sutton Foster, each of whom has the native talent to pull off the role...and all of whom would be a lot more age appropriate 5 years from now than Imelda is today. And I agree with the person who requested that just once we have an age appropriate Rose in the role, someone in her 40s, instead of (god forbid) someone in her 70s or, in the case of Imelda, I assume well into her 50s.
#24Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 3:19pm
Imelda Staunton just turned 60
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#25Gypsy transferring
Posted: 11/26/16 at 6:15pm
Jarethan - I think all of those are great suggestions for Rose. I'd also love to see Marin Mazzie, Christine Ebersole and Donna Murphy.
