The run closed May 30, 2004
- Opened
- May 1, 2003
- Closed
- May 30, 2004
- Performances
- 451
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 51st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Gypsy 7 more that season
| 1903 | Garrick Theatre Original | 1 perf. |
| 1959 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Jerome Robbins | 702 perf. |
| 1974 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Arthur Laurents | 120 perf. |
| 1989 | St James Theatre Revival · Bonnie Walker | 581 perf. |
| 2008 | St. James Theatre Revival · Arthur Laurents | 332 perf. |
| 2016 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2024 | Majestic Theatre Revival · George C. Wolfe | 269 perf. |
Who was in it22 named
Coco
Brandon Espinoza
Sarah Jayne Jensen
Gina Lamparella
Heather Lee
Stephen Scott Scarpulla
Cathy Trien
Lyn Philistine
Gayton Scott
Bridget Walders
12 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters8 roles recorded
Patti LuPone Rose
Laura Benanti Louise
John Dossett Herbie
Kate Reinders June
David Burtka Tulsa
Heather Lee Tessie Tura
Kate Buddeke Mazeppa
Julie Halston Electra
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Sam Mendes
- Choreographer
- Jerry Mitchell
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother." It follows the dreams and efforts of Rose to raise two daughters to perform onstage and casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life. The character of Louise is based on Lee, and the character of June is based on Lee's sister, the actress June Havoc. The musical contains many songs that became popular standards, including "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Rose's Turn", "Sm…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Gypsy at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.