On Thursday, March 27th the musical Gypsy opened at the St. James Theater. The after party was held at the club "The Mansion".
Gypsy tells the dramatic musical tale of the legendary stage mother of Gypsy Lee Rose and
June Havoc, a woman who drove her two daughters into show business with a misguided and terrifiying passion. The classic musical is a journey that travels from the slowly fading vaudeville venues of yesterday to backstages of it's often unseemly replacement the strip-tease house. Gypsy starsTony Award winner
Patti LuPone. The Broadway production reunites LuPone with her
City Center co-stars
Boyd Gaines and
Laura Benanti.
Gypsy give us an aggressive and finally tragic Mama Rose is determined
to escape a normal life of day to day concerns by pushing the careers
of her two daughters, one the younger June, who escapes her mother's
emotional juggernaut by eloping and the older, shy and less talented
Louise. The older daughter will eventually become the burlesque star,
Gypsy Rose Lee, who will prove to be the stronger woman by rewarding
her Mother with the painful and cathartic knowledge that she is no
longer needed in her daughters successful career.
Tickets for
Gypsy are $117.00 - $42.00 and are available through Telecharge at (212) 239-6200 or
www.telecharge.com or by visiting the
St. James Theatre box office. Premium seating is available. Preview performances are Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. There is no performance on Friday, March 28, 2008, however a matinee performance has been added on Sunday,
March 30, 2008. Beginning March 31, performances will be Tuesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m
