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After a limited engagement this past summer at City Center the inaugural production of the Encores! Summer Stars series the acclaimed mounting of Gypsy starring Tony and Olivier Award winner Patti LuPone will arrive on Broadway in 2008.
According to a casting notice, the classic musical will open at a Broadway theatre-to-be-announced March 27, 2008. Rehearsals will begin Jan. 27, 2008.

Gypsy co-creator Arthur Laurents, who helmed the City Center run, will direct on Broadway as well. The casting notice says that the entire cast of the Encores! production have been offered the chance to repeat their roles on Broadway, but only LuPone has currently been cast.
The creative team will also include Patrick Vaccariello (music director) and Bonnie Walker (reproducing Jerome Robbins' original choreography).
The Encores! Summer Stars production of Gypsy played its final performance at City Center July 29. The limited run began previews July 9 with an official opening July 14.

Directed by Laurents, who wrote the book to what is considered one of the finest American musicals, the cast also boasted Boyd Gaines as Herbie, Laura Benanti as Louise, Leigh Ann Larkin as Dainty June, Tony Yazbeck as Tulsa, Alison Fraser as Tessie Tura, Nancy Opel as Mazeppa/Miss Cratchitt, Marilyn Caskey as Electra, Sami Gayle as Baby June, Emma Rowley as Baby Louise, Jim Bracchita as Uncle Jocko/Pastey, Bill Bateman as George/Mr. Goldstone/Bougeron-Cochon, Bill Raymond as Pop/Cigar and Brian Reddy as Weber/Phil.
The creative team also included James Youmans (set design), Martin Pakledinaz (costume design), Howell Binkley (lighting design) and Dan Moses Schreier (sound design).

Gypsy features a score by Jule Styne (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and a book by Arthur Laurents. The musical bowed on Broadway in May 1959 at the Broadway Theatre, playing 702 performances before closing at the Imperial Theatre, where it later transferred, on March 25, 1961. Ethel Merman created the role of Rose in the original production; subsequent Broadway Roses include Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly and Bernadette Peters. Merman and Peters were Tony-nominated for their performances; Lansbury and Daly won the coveted award.
A Tony Award winner for her work in Evita, Patti LuPone also earned an Olivier Award for her performances in the West End productions of Les Misérables and The Cradle Will Rock. Her other theatrical credits include Sunset Boulevard, Anything Goes, Oliver!, Working, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class and Pal Joey. LuPone also headlined two solo Broadway concerts, Patti LuPone On Broadway and Matters of the Heart, and received glowing notices for her performance as Mrs. Lovett in the Lincoln Center concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and a Tony nomination for her performance in the recent revival of that Sondheim work. She was seen in the Kennedy Center's staging of Marc Blitzstein's Regina and recently joined Audra McDonald for Los Angeles Opera's production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Her screen and recording credits are numerous.

NY Post review of Gypsy:   OH, MAMA! LUPONE ASTONISHING IN 'GYPSY' By FRANK SCHECK July 16, 2007 -- NEW York City area audiences have been able to see several productions of "Gypsy" in the last number of years, but they haven't had the opportunity to actually be in one. They now do, thanks to the galvanizing revival starring Patti LuPone being presented by Encores! Summer Stars at City Center. When this indomitable actress finished her tour de force rendition of "Rose's Turn," the audience rose for a spontaneous standing ovation. LuPone acknowledged the applause fully in character as the self-aggrandizing Mama Rose, bowing floridly and in effect incorporating us into her character's elaborate fantasy. It is one of many memorable moments in the show, which has been directed by its author, Arthur Laurents. Unlike the usual Encores! productions, it is fully staged, incorporating Jerome Robbins' original choreography and featuring perfectly respectable if not lavish scenery. LuPone, as might be imagined, is a powerhouse in the role, singing the hell out of the classic Styne/Sondheim score and giving a portrayal that easily ranks as one of the best Roses ever. She's perfectly matched by Boyd Gaines, who delivers a performance of such touching dignity and humor as Herbie that it makes one wish he was eligible to win a fourth Tony Award. The supporting cast is equally fine, with Laura Benanti a tough and sexy Louise, Leigh Ann Larkin perfect as Dainty June, and Tony Yazbeck wonderfully appealing as the twinkle-toed Tulsa. And Alison Fraser, Nancy Opel and Marilyn Caskey bring down the house as the three strippers with a gimmick. Not everything works perfectly in the production. LuPone's Rose is so overpowering that the character of Louise seems overshadowed. And the sequence depicting Benanti's transformation from nervous neophyte to confident, sexy stripper isn't as effective as it might be. But these are quibbles. This is a Mama Rose and a "Gypsy" to be treasured, and deserves to be around far longer than its current three-week run.

 

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