GYPSY
 


Mama Rose is determined to escape from a life of paying rent by pushing the career of her younger daughter June. After June elopes, Mama focuses all her attention on her older, less talented daughter, Loise, who eventually becomes a burlesque stripper named Gypsy Rose Lee and Mama realizes she is no longer needed in her daughter's career.

 


1975 Tony Award
Best Actress in a Musical (Angela Lansbury)

1975 Theatre World Award
Zan Charisse
John Sheridan

1975 Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Actress in a Musical
(Angela Lansbury)
Outstanding Director of a Musical

1990 Tony Award
Best Actress in a Musical (Tyne Daly)
Best Revival

1990 Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Actress in a Musical
(Tyne Daly)
Outstanding Revival

1990 Theatre World Award
 Robert Lambert
Crista Moore

2003 Theatre World Award
 Tammy Blanchard

BROADWAY PREMIERE
May 21, 1959, plays 702 performances

REVIVAL
September 23, 1974, played 120 performances
November 16, 1989, played 476 performances
May 1, 2003, played 451 performances
July 9, 2007 - July 29, 2007
 
COMPOSER
Jule Styne

LYRICIST
Stephen Sondheim

LIBRETTIST
Arther Laurents
 
ORIGINAL CAST
Ethel Mermen, Jack Klugman, Sandra Church, Lane Bradbury, Maria Karnilova, Paul Wallace, and Jaqueline Mayro

DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Jerome Robbins
 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

PRODUCTION RIGHTS
Tams Witmark

LYRICS
libretto.musicals.ru
 
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