Shows · Gypsy · Winter Garden Theatre, 1974
The run closed January 4, 1975
- Opened
- September 23, 1974
- Closed
- January 4, 1975
- Performances
- 120
- Previews
- Unknown
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry a performance count, this is the 148th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Gypsy 9 more that season
| 1903 | Garrick Theatre Original | 1 perf. |
| 1929 | Klaw Theatre Revival · George Cukor | 64 perf. |
| 1959 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Jerome Robbins | 702 perf. |
| 1989 | St James Theatre Revival · Bonnie Walker | 581 perf. |
| 2003 | Shubert Theatre Revival · Sam Mendes | 451 perf. |
| 2008 | St. James Theatre Revival · Arthur Laurents | 332 perf. |
| 2016 | Original Original | |
| 2016 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2024 | Majestic Theatre Revival · George C. Wolfe | 269 perf. |
Who was in it32 named
Edith Ann
Craig Brown
Pat Cody
Donna Elio
Steven Gelfer
Dennis Karr
Jinny Kordek
David Lawson
Anthony Marciona
Marilyn Olson
Peewee
Lisa Peluso
Don Potter
Patricia Richardson
Ed Riley
Gloria Rossi
Charles Rule
Sean Rule
Richard J Sabellico
Mark Santoro
Jay Smith
11 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters8 roles held
Tyne Daly Rose
Crista Moore Louise
Rex Robbins Herbie
Maureen Moore June
John Sheridan Tulsa
Mary Louise Wilson Tessie Tura
Gloria Rossi Mazeppa
Sally Cooke Electra
These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Arthur Laurents
- Choreographer
- Robert Tucker
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 18 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Gypsy, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, 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. The musical contains many songs that became popular standards, including "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Rose's Turn", "Sm…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging.
- Which of the 18 recordings of Gypsy document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.
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