A few months ago, wowed by his productions of "Uncle Vanya" and "Twelfth Night" at the Brooklyn Academy, I declared in print that the Brit Sam Mendes was indeed a good choice to direct the American classic "Gypsy."
I was wrong.
The production will have lost a little less than half of its $8 million capitalization.
New Momma Takes Charge by BEN BRANTLEY
YOU can tear down the black crepe, boys. Take the hearse back to the garage, and start popping Champagne corks. Momma's pulled it off, after all — big time.
Playing a role that few people thought would ever fit her and shadowed by vultures predicting disaster, Bernadette Peters delivered the surprise coup of many a Broadway season in the revival of "Gypsy" that opened last night at the Shubert Theater.
'Gypsy' is by no means a disaster. It is merely a conventional, ordinary, stolidly professional and routine retelling of one of the last and one of the most important of the golden-age Ameri…
From the first four notes of the overture — which lyrically spell out the theme of the show ("I had a dream") — to the evening's blazing finale of "Rose's Turn," "Gypsy" never lets up. A…
Review by Matthew Murray
Though this proclamation might prove higher praise in most other seasons, Gypsy is the best musical revival of the season. The reason for this can be summed up in two words: Sam Mendes.
A huge congratulations to our friends at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for another spectacular Gypsy of the Year competition! This year had many highlights. Here are my Top 10 moments of…