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Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!

By: Apr. 21, 2018
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My Fair Lady officially opened on Thursday night at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre and BroadwayWorld at the Gypsy Robe ceremony before the production's opening night performance. We're taking you behind the scenes with recipient Matt Wall below!

Wall's Broadway credits include: Sunset Boulevard; Something Rotten; Annie; Evita; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Promises, Promises; Curtains; South Pacific; The Drowsy Chaperone; 110 in the Shade; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Follies; Saturday Night Fever. TV: "Blue Bloods," "Bull," "The Good Wife." Education: The Boston Conservatory.

The Gypsy Robe began in 1950, when Bill Bradley, in the chorus of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, borrowed a dressing gown from Chorus member Florence Baum and sent it to a friend in CALL ME MADAM on opening night Oct 12, 1950 saying it was worn by all the Ziegfeld beauties and would "bless" the show. A cabbage rose from Ethel Merman's gown was added and the robe was passed along to the next Broadway musical on opening night. The tradition evolved so that the robe is now presented to the "gypsy" who has performed the most Broadway musicals on a chorus contract. Along the way, the robe is decorated, painted, patched, stitched, and signed by everyone in the show, becoming a fanciful patchwork for an entire Broadway season.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Lauren Ambrose and Bartlett Sher

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Broadway debuts: Harry Hadden-Paton, Christopher Faison, Joanna Rhinehart, Kate Marilley, Kerstin Anderson and Shereen Ahmed

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Broadway debuts: Harry Hadden-Paton, Christopher Faison, Joanna Rhinehart, Kate Marilley, Kerstin Anderson and Shereen Ahmed

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Matt Wall and Cameron Adams

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall and Cameron Adams

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Jess LeProtto from Carousel

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
David Westphal, Matt Wall and Jess LeProtto

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Diana Rigg, and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Diana Rigg, Norbert Leo Butz and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Diana Rigg

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Norbert Leo Butz

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Diana Rigg and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Cameron Adams, Bartlett Sher and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Harry Hadden-Paton

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Cameron Adams, Harry Hadden-Paton, Lauren Ambrose, Bartlett Sher and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Cameron Adams, Harry Hadden-Paton, Lauren Ambrose, Bartlett Sher and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Cameron Adams, Lauren Ambrose, and cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Bartlett Sher and the cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Bartlett Sher and the cast

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Lauren Ambrose and Harry Hadden-Paton

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Harry Hadden-Paton and Bartlett Sher

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall, Diana Rigg and Bartlett Sher

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall, Diana Rigg and Bartlett Sher

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Lauren Ambrose

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Allan Corduner

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Allan Corduner, Diana Rigg and Bartlett Sher

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Diana Rigg and Bartlett Sher

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Allan Corduner and Diana Rigg

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Lauren Ambrose and Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall with Broadway debut cast members

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Diana Rigg and James Dybas

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Lauren Ambrose and Diana Rigg

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Lauren Ambrose and Harry Hadden-Paton

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Cameron Adams and Matt Wall

Exclusive Photo Coverage: Matt Wall Receives the Gypsy Robe for MY FAIR LADY!  Image
Cameron Adams and Matt Wall




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