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Gypsy (1973 original London cast)

Gypsy

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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…

Opened
1959
Performances
702
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Jule StyneLyrics: Stephen SondheimBook: Arthur Laurents

Productions8 on Broadway

1903 Garrick Theatre Original. December 30, 1903 · predates this show 1 performances
1959 Broadway Theatre Revival. May 21, 1959 · Jerome Robbins 702 performances
1974 Winter Garden Theatre Revival. September 23, 1974 · Arthur Laurents 120 performances
1989 St James Theatre Revival. November 16, 1989 · Bonnie Walker 581 performances
2003 Shubert Theatre Revival. May 1, 2003 · Sam Mendes 451 performances
2008 St. James Theatre Revival. March 27, 2008 · Arthur Laurents 332 performances
2016 Transfer Theatre not recorded. April 15, 2015
2024 Majestic Theatre Revival. December 19, 2024 · George C. Wolfe 269 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature41 passages

A celebrated revival of the musical opened on Broadway in 1989, starring Tyne Daley. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p177

At first there was hope that the Gypsy team of Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim would be reunited to write the score, but Sondheim wasn’t interested and Styne contacted Bob Merrill. Some of their songs, however, virtually replaced those used book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p199

Some of their songs, however, virtually replaced those used in comparable situations in Gypsy— “I’m the Greatest Star” for “Some People,” “Don’t Rain on My Parade” for “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” and “The Music That Makes Me Dance” (which suggested Fanny Brice’s closely identified theme song, “My Man”) for “Rose’s… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p231

ayride (1944; 481 performances; with Gypsy’s sister June Havoc) and As the Girls Go (1948; 420 performances; the plot dealt with the first woman president, and Clark played the First Husband). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p70

"Liza, the Darling’s maid, was played by Jacqueline Mayro, who had created the role of Baby June in the original Broadway production of Gypsy ." book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p416

Angela Lansbury returned to the Winter Garden in 1974 in a dynamic revival of Gypsy. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p67

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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