Imelda Staunton's Gypsy: The archetypal showbiz mother from hell
Imelda Staunton looks as though she's just run a half marathon " glistening, a bit wrung-out, and ready to flop " when, with director Jonathan Kent, she enters the cafeteria at 3 Mills Studios in London's East End. In fact, she has just spent the day rehearsing the Chichester Festival Theatre's new production of Gypsy, the musical (with a classic score by Jule Styne and unbeatable lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) in which…