GYPSY, Broadway 2024

Started by scenicdesign71, May 29, 2024, 03:53 PM

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NYT:  Audra McDonald to Star in Gypsy Revival on Broadway This Fall
            The six-time Tony-winning actress will play musical theater's most famous stage mother in a production directed by George C. Wolfe.

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Previews November 21, opening December 19.   At the Majestic, former home of the Phantom.

Notwithstanding the undeniable Audra of it all, I'm just as excited to see Wolfe's take on Gypsy as I am for McDonald's Rose.  Per the article:

Quote from: Michael Paulson, New York Times, 29 May 2024He said that his ideas for the production were still evolving.  "The thing that keeps on resonating with me is the idea of not enough: not enough space, not enough love, not enough money," Wolfe said.  "That's what's pulling me in."

I'm not sure what that ultimately looks like onstage — no designers have been announced — but there seems to me a discernible GCW aesthetic at work in this teaser: