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Theatre geeks around the country will be rejoicing if Michael Reidel’s scoop in today’s New York Post comes to fruition. According to Reidel, there’s a plan to reopen last summer’s LuPone-ocentric City Center revival of Gypsy at the St. James early next year.
According to Reidel, “Roger Berlind, the courtly producer behind Curtains, is spearheading the move, which will cost about $9 million, a high price tag for a revival.”
While no definite plans have been announced, it seems agents for Ms. LuPone’s co-stars, Boyd Gaines (Herbie) and Laura Benanti (Louise) have been asked to keep their clients’ schedules free. There is also talk of taking the production to London next fall.
Though last summer’s production was lauded by musical theatre fans across the board, the critic’s reviews were mixed, so a $9 million dollar revival of an oft-produced musical (last seen a mere seven years ago on Broadway) is a considerable risk.
Still, I agree with Reidel that,”Gypsy is a great musical, and this revival deserves a shot at Broadway.” So pay up, papa.
Count me as one happy geek.
comment: saw the Gypsy play with Ethel Merman, when I worked in NYC at the U>S> Custom House at Bowling Green and
my aunt, who just turned 85 yrs. old, used to work at the NYC Garment Center, as a young widow, and she got me
free tickets to see the play. I went with cohorts,and coworkers of Customs, and we had a great time and great seats. Now, that I see the revival, this week on Broadway, of which my daughter played a big part in, but not as an
actress, but as one of the artists who painted the backdrops for the play and she and her fellow artists are going to the preview tomorrow evening at the James Theatre on Broadway.
This brings back so many favorite memories of mine and
I truly wish I could share the moment with her as she asked me to go to the preview. If I was able to. I live 300 mi. from New York City, and she lives near Kingston NY and
can go by train from there. I am about to call her on the phone, as I am not in my late teens, when I saw the play,
and would love to be there to see her work. I am trying to see what I can on the website of GYpsy, and Playbill Mag.
I am also a person with a disability and checking out seating for the folks with disab. If I were able to go,
I would not be able to walk up steps and see the back enrance or garage entrance - which I believe may be used for persons in wheelchairs — at times, I use a wheelchair for long distances and a quad cane in between. I would love to know as much information as I could about the revival show and the behind the scenes and if there are photos going to be on the website — and trailer clips.
My daughter has worked for Scenic Designs for quite a while and has done backdrops for other broadway plays, such as The Phantom, Wicked, The Producers, South Pacific, The Little Shoppe of Horrors and others. I am also checking out South Pacific if there were a way that I would be able to attend that one and see her work — it has sentimental value as well as my spouse and I went to see the movie, when I was sixteen in brooklyn NY and seeing the musical on broadway with my daughters artwork in it - would be quite a precious moment in time to share with her.
she is quite talented and a graduate with a bfa from the State Univ of NY at Oswego, where she was raised and she was born in QUeens NY and I have family there.
She also has exhibited in Soho New York along with other exhibits in upstate new york.
I hope that there will be a photo gallery re: the play.
please send any applicable info to me
at the above e-mail address: and I am also doing art
which has been hidden for many years.
thank you and hope to hear from you
vag