Iconic Musical GYPSY Comes to Hayes Theatre Co

The award-winning producer of Sweet Charity and Little Shop of Horrors, Luckiest Productions, is combining forces with One Eyed Man Productions (Calamity Jane), in association with Hayes Theatre Co, to present the celebrated musical Gypsy. With a toe-tapping, hugely acclaimed score and heralded by many as the greatest musical ever created, Gypsy will run from 18 May 2018 at the Hayes Theatre Co.

Three-time Sydney Theatre Award winner Blazey Best (Miracle City, Only Heaven Knows) returns to the Hayes to take on the iconic role of Rose, with Laura Bunting (Rent, Calamity Jane, Assassins) as her daughter Louise. A stellar creative team has been assembled including Director Richard Carroll (Calamity Jane, Side Show), Musical Director Joe Accaria (Velvet), Choreographer Cameron Mitchell (Calamity Jane, Mack and Mabel) and Designer Alicia Clements (Assassins, The Father).

Rose, June and Louise are eking out a hard living in the dying days of vaudeville. Constantly on the road, always on the lookout for a way to fund their next meal - honestly or dishonestly - there's nothing glamorous about their show-business life. Rose will fight for her daughters' success, no matter what the cost, and both girls play along for as long as they can - until first one, then the other, reach breaking point and begin to question Rose's real motives for their life on the stage.

Critically acclaimed and multiple-award winning, Gypsy is the ultimate mother-daughter story - a gripping, funny and heartbreaking tale of the damage we do to those we love. Rose's own frustrated dreams of stardom are ploughed into her children; her own childhood wounds push her to glorify and smother her daughters in turn, and eventually to drive them both away.

Set all across America in the 1920s, Arthur Laurents' landmark show documents the dying days of vaudeville and the birth of a shocking new form of entertainment - burlesque. Rose's fanatic determination pushes her family's loyalty to breaking point, but from the most unlikely of places emerges one of the twentieth century's most illustrious and ingenious entertainers - Gypsy Rose Lee.

The celebrated score by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim is packed with classic songs, including Let Me Entertain You, Some People, Everything's Coming Up Roses, Together Wherever We Go, You Gotta Get a Gimmick, and the iconic Rose's Turn.

Tickets for Gypsy are now available online at www.hayestheatre.com.au or by calling the Hayes Theatre Co box office during business hours on (02) 8065 7337.

GYPSY: A Musical Fable

Presented by Luckiest Productions and One Eyed Man Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co Book by Arthur Laurents, Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
Original production by David Merrick & Leland Hayward

Entire production originally directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins

Directed by Richard Carroll Choreography by Cameron Mitchell Musical Direction by Joe Accaria Designer Alicia Clements
Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest

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Hayes Theatre Co, 19 Greenknowe Ave, Potts Point
From 18 May 2018
Mon 6.30pm, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, Wed and Sat matinees 2pm (No performance on Monday 11 June)
Mon-Thurs $89, Wed matinee $79, Sat matinee $89, Fri- Sat evening $99, Previews $79 hayestheatre.com.au | (02) 8065 7337