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THEATER REVIEW | 'GYPSY'
Curtain Up! It’s Patti’s Turn
By BEN BRANTLEY

Watch out, New York. Patti LuPone has found her focus. And when Ms. LuPone is truly focused, she’s a laser, she incinerates. Especially when she’s playing someone as dangerously obsessed as Momma Rose in the wallop-packing revival of the musical “Gypsy,” which opened on Thursday night at the St. James Theater.

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Sing Out, Laura. It’s Your Turn.
By CELIA McGEE

IT’S hard to cover a tattoo when there’s a striptease involved.

Night after night (and two afternoons a week), Laura Benanti’s makeup assistant spends quite some time masking the butterfly the actress has tattooed on her lower back so it won’t show in “Let Me Entertain You,” the eye-riveting number in which Ms. Benanti, as the gawky Louise in “Gypsy,” molts into the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

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Two Helpings of Pie From Broadway’s Fridge

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

“SOUTH PACIFIC” and “Gypsy,” which both return to Broadway this spring, originally opened 10 years apart, standing neatly as theatrical bookends of the 1950s. The Rodgers and Hammerstein romance set in the Pacific during World War II had its New York premiere in April 1949, on the cusp of that fabled decade of American prosperity and self-confidence. The brassy musical inspired by Gypsy Rose Lee’s memoir first took a bow in May 1959, as the decade drew to a close and only a few shadows of the more fractious era ahead could be discerned on the horizon.

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I've always loved looking at Seurat paintings even before I ever heard Sunday in the Park with George. I had a chance to take a closer look at the paintings when I was at the British Museum this past summer. They were wonderful. :)

The 1987 production starred Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters... while the 2006 London revival production starred Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell which will be presented by the Roundabout Theatre Group at Studio 54 this Spring.

I had the opportunity to see and hear Daniel Evans sing Sunday with Maria Friedman at Cadogan Hall during the same UK trip - and he sounded lovely :)

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Well. To kill time this afternoon, I re-watched the Company album cast recording session (from 1970)... and this evening, I see the PBS clips for the Company revival... which look very nice. :)
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Benanti and Gaines Will Join LuPone for Broadway Gypsy Revival

Benanti and Gaines Will Join LuPone for Broadway Gypsy Revival

By Andrew Gans
19 Dec 2007

As previously reported on Playbill.com, the upcoming Broadway revival of Gypsy — starring Tony and Olivier Award winner Patti LuPone as that stage mother of all stage mothers, Rose — will play the St. James Theatre.

After a limited engagement this past summer at City Center — the inaugural production of the Encores! Summer Stars series — the acclaimed mounting of Gypsy starring LuPone will begin previews at the St. James March 3, 2008, with an official opening March 27.

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The NYT review of Pinter's The Homecoming :) :)

You Can Go Home Again, but You’ll Pay the Consequences

December 17, 2007
THEATER REVIEW | 'THE HOMECOMING'
You Can Go Home Again, but You’ll Pay the Consequences
By BEN BRANTLEY

First of all, it really is that good. You would expect it to have shrunk over the years, the way buildings that loomed large in your childhood seem smaller when you revisit them. But as the first-rate revival that opened Sunday night at the Cort Theater makes electrifyingly clear, “The Homecoming” is every bit as big as its reputation.

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NYT: Sondheim Dismembers 'Sweeney'

Sondheim Dismembers 'Sweeney'

Leah Gallo/Paramount Pictures
Jamie Campbell Bower, left, as Anthony and Johnny Depp as the title character in the film version of "Sweeney Todd."
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In celebration of the Golden Globe nominations for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street...

a variety of Sweeney Todd's :)

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Things better left unsaid

are not here.

NYT: Curtain Up! It’s Patti’s Turn

NYT: Sing Out, Laura. It’s Your Turn.

NYT: Two Helpings of Pie From Broadway’s Fridge

Sunday in the Park with George [1987 and 2006]

Company

Playbill: Benanti and Gaines Will Join LuPone for Broadway Gypsy Revival

NYT: You Can Go Home Again, but You’ll Pay the Consequences

NYT: Sondheim Dismembers ‘Sweeney’

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