What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
#1re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:04pmThe overture is the best thing about GYPSY!
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#2re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:06pmThe entire score and every scene. It is the finest musical ever written. (No one needs to point out that this is only my opinion. I am already aware of that.)
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#3re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:06pm
Rose's Turn
and
All I Need Is the Girl
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#4re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:06pmMine too, n.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:11pmAny scene I'm in
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JLagow
Chorus Member Joined: 5/20/03
#7Well, the entire show is pretty much flawless but favorites ...
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:12pm
I would have to say:
1. Overture
2. Some People
3. Scene between June and Louise before If Mamma Was Married
4. Together
5. Louise's scene with the mirror right before the Strip
6. The Strip
7. Confrontation Scene before Rose's Turn
8. Rose's Turn
9. Final scene
#9Well, the entire show is pretty much flawless but favorites ...
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:17pm
overture
some people
if momma was married
roses turn
#10re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:24pm
The Overture, Rose's Entrance ("Sing Out Louice...SIng OUT!"), "Some People", "Small World", The hotel room scene, "Litttle Lamb", The restaurant scene, scene in Grantzinger's office, "If Mamma Was Marrried", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Together Wherever we Go", All scenes with Tessie Tura, "You Gotta Have a Gimmick", Gypsy's transformationa nd strip montage, The argument scene, "Rose's Turn" and Rose's final wistful glance at the stage as she and Gypsy exit.
THe cast album with Ethel Merman is still my favourite show album of all time. Wow she poured a LOT of anger into that one. SHe was going through a divorce so maybe she used that to fuel her. Whatever it was, it's chilling to hear! (We did an interview with her in 1979 and the announcer asked how she pulled off GYPSY because it seemed like method acting with the force and control. Miss Merman shrugged and and said "well I guess you either got it or you ain't!")
It's an amzingly tight script. A friend of mine was producing and directing a community theatre staging last fall and was looking to trim it down to about 2 1/2 hours. (His shows play to older audiences who get restless whne they go on too long.) He found he couldn't cut any lines because if you cut this one, that one won't make sense. He left it at 3 hours and no one complained because they were so caught up in it.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#11re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 3:30pm
Picking a favorite scene or song from that show is like picking a favorite among your children!
I WILL say that my favorite line from the show is:
"You wanna know why I did it?
You REALLY wanna know why I did it?
BECAUSE I WAS BORN TOO SOON AND I STARTED TOO LATE!!!"
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
MusicalDirector109
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#12re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 4:31pmRose and Herbie's final scene. What an awesome book.
#13re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 4:34pmi love the harmonies in "if mamma was married" thats a great song.
you may know what you need but to get what you want better see that you keep what you have
#15re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 4:53pmah screw it...the whole goddamn thing is brilliant!
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 6:55pmThe whole show is perfection.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#17re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 6:59pm
the whole show...... but
once they hit the burlesque to the end is the best....
"I thought you did it for me momma"
#18re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 7:01pmRose's Turn... CHILLS. I'm not even listening to it and I have goosebumps.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#19re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 7:02pmThe whole damn thing!
#20re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 7:05pmRose's monologue as she get's Louise ready for the strip
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#22re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 7:12pm
I love the dressing room scene after the strip ("Nobody laughs at me. Because I laugh first. At me. From Seattle.." etc)
And "Rose's Turn" is a truly brilliant number.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#23re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 7:16pmI love Rose's Turn and the ending hamonies of If Mamma Was Married, but one of my favorite numbers is Gotta Have a Gimmick- especially on the latest recording
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#24re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 7:44pmDon't make me pick one. As others have said: the whole thing is brilliant.
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#25re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 7:47pmWell i've got a soft spot for Tulsa because i played that role. My fave bit ever though was the confrontation scene. We had a really really bad Mama Rose (one guy actually put ear plugs in when she, i use this in the loosest term possible, sang) but Louise was amazing. She was truely captivating especially when she blew her top.
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
Ann_Margrock
Stand-by Joined: 9/8/04
#26re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:54pm
The musical is flawless, but I have to say that my favorite scene is always the one where "Louise" looks into the mirror and says: "I'm pretty. I'm a preety girl Mama". That and Louise's Strip routine in the Garden of Eden setting always "get me".
Updated On: 6/25/05 at 08:54 PM
#27re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:53am
definitely the strippers and GOTTA HAVE A GIMMICK 
"hey, you with the neck! that costume cost five bucks!
"some'n WRONG with STRIP-PIN'??!"
"oh, it's the same burlesque crap they've been doing since the year one."
RIP glebby <3
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#29re: What are your favorite scenes/musical numbers in Gypsy?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 5:04am"Rose's Turn" if done just right will give you goosebumps into next century. Voice on the verge of cracking, heck Rose's sanity on the verge of cracking, mixed with hope, anger, longing...
