Rumour Has It! Adele Wants to Play GYPSY's Mama Rose on Broadway!

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, global superstar Adele reveals that she would like to take on the iconic role of GYPSY's Mama Rose on Broadway!

While discussing the possibility of taking up future residency in Las Vegas, NV, the multi-Grammy winner told the magazine that she would love to be on the Great White Way, specifically playing the role of the stage mother from hell in GYPSY.

Unfortunately, theater fans may have to wait a few years for the dream casting to happen. When asked when she envisions making her Broadway debut in the musical, the 28-year-old singer-songwriter replied, "like when I'm 50." Oh well, we are certainly willing to wait for "someone like you"!

Read the interview in full here

The 1959 musical GYPSY features music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, 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 on the hardships of show business life. The character of Louise is based on Lee, and the character of June is based on Lee's sister, the actress June Havoc. Among the actresses who have taken on the iconic role of Mama Rose are Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, Angela Lansbury, and Patti LuPone

Adele's debut album, '19', was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and three times platinum in the US. At the 51st GRAMMY AWARDS in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The singer released her second studio album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer numerous awards in 2012, among them a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year, and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK, and is the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time.In the US it has held the top position longer than any album since 1985, and is certified Diamond. The album has sold 31 million copies worldwide.

Adele is the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist, and the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. 21 is the longest-running number one album by a female solo artist in the history of the UK and US Album Charts.

In 2012, she released "Skyfall", which she wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. The song won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. After taking a three-year break, Adele released her third studio album, 25, in 2015. It became the year's best-selling album and broke first week sales records in the UK and US.25 was her second album to be certified Diamond in the US. The lead single, "Hello", became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release.

In 2011 and 2012, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2012, she was listed at number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. With sales of more than 100 million records, Adele is one of the best-selling recording artists in the world.

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