"Gypsy's" Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
"Gypsy's" Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
#1"Gypsy's" Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 8:33am
Of course, the racial issue doesn't come across with any more gravitas than it did in Dreamgirls—no chairs will be flung—but this is basically buoyant fairy-tale fluff posing as social comment, and you eventually accept that it's basically Bye Bye Birdie with protest signs. The message? As we're told repeatedly, "The oppressed, fringey weirdos and underdogs are moving center stage!" They mean blacks and fatties, but believe me, it's really about the gays.
So, apparently, is the Encores production of Gypsy, where attendees have reported no line whatsoever for the ladies' room, but a long, winding one for the men's room, if you catch my demographical drift.
from RC in Austin, Texas T.O.P.L.F.
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
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Eileen2
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#2re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:02am
Hmm... I guess I was standing on an imaginary long line for the ladies room? 
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#3re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:24am
I've never seen a long line for the men's room at any show...
Until I saw Grey Gardens two weeks ago and Gypsy last week.
Musto ain't wrong.
#4re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:31amI told you to go before we left the house!
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#5re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:36amThis is news?
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morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#6re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:38amAre there holes in the men's room?
#7re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:39am
GREY GARDENS and 110 are closing, GREASE is getting ready to open, XANADU opened to raves, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and THE LITTLE MERMAID have begun rehearsals, the Emmy Award nominations come out soon, the HAIRSPRAY movie opens Friday...
...and THIS is what makes for a worthy column? Who the f*ck cares??
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 09:39 AM
--Aristotle
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#8re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:41amMusto cares.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 11:48amDoes anyone pay any attention to Musto? He's an air-head who wastes newsprint.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#10re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 11:58amEileen, just cuz they were standing in line for the Ladies doesn't mean they WERE ladies...
PEACE.
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#11re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 12:11pmMost of the men in line for the restroom were very old and there with their wives (as was many of the men in the audience). And the men's room is pretty tiny to begin with. Just because there are more men in line for the bathroom than at a different theatre doesn't mean more gay men are seeing the show.
#12re: 'Gypsy's' Audience Demographic: According to Michael Musto
Posted: 7/19/07 at 2:23pm
I dunno, I saw it on Tuesday as one half of a gay couple, had 2 more couples to my right, one to my left, and several more directly around me. It was pretty funny, but about what I expected.
But is it news? no.
It's just a message board. Let's not take it too seriously.