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Gypsy, 1959

Opened May 21, 1959

Closed March 25, 1961

702 performances

Broadway Theatre

Revival

Broadway

Gypsy
Laura Bittner from Manchester, CT, USA

Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 25th longest run.

Other stagings of Gypsy 7 more

1974
Winter Garden TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Arthur Laurents
120 performances
1989
St James TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Bonnie Walker
581 performances
2003
Shubert TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Sam Mendes
451 performances
2008
St. James TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Arthur Laurents
332 performances
2016
OriginalLondon Original
2016
ProductionLondon
2024
Majestic TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by George C. Wolfe
269 performances

Who was in it66 named

Kathryn Albertson
Marvin Arnold
John Borden
Bobby Brownell
Patsy Bruder
Gene Castle
Ricky Coll
Marilyn D Honau
Don Emmons
Erv Harmon
Billy Harris
Gloria Kristy
Jody Lane
Merle Letowt
Loney Lewis
Barbara London
Denise Mclaglen
Theda Nelson
Michael Parks
Joan Petlak
Richard Porter
Marsha Rivers
Willy Sumner
Carroll Jo Towers
Ian Tucker
Marie Wallace
George Zima
Jeffrey Allan
Billy Curtis
Linda Donovan
Dick Foster
Harvey Hohnecker
Mark Hunter
Michael Mann
Jay Roy
Charles White
Jeffrey Bolton
Ruth Brian
Patty Brownell
Betty Bruce
Barbara Creed
Jeanne Elyse
Irving Harmon
Irene Paris
Alice Playten
Nick Previti
Julia Ross
June Squibb

Creative team

Director
Jerome Robbins
Choreographer
Jerome Robbins
Producer
David Merrick & Leland Hayward

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings 2 released while this run was on

1959
Gypsy
Gypsy Columbia OL 5420, released 1959
United States
1959
Gypsy Columbia OS 2017, released 1959
United States

16 more exist for other runs of this show: see Gypsy for all of them.

Around this production

perhaps the greatest Broadway musical of all time, Gypsy.We are closing with Gypsy because, of all the Great American Musicals, it is the one unenc…

'That afternoon she performed the show with the fevered pitch of Ethel Merman in Gypsy, rather than as the vulnerable lady the character was meant to be.'

The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 187

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