Original 1959 Broadway Recording - Gypsy-50th Anniversary Edition
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Artist: Original 1959 Broadway RecordingComposer: Stephen Sondheim
Performer: Gypsy (50th Anniversary Edition)
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording, Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2009-05-05
Music Label: SONY CLASSICS
Soundtracks:
- Gypsy
- Gypsy; Let Me Entertain You
- Gypsy; Some People
- Gypsy; Small World
- Gypsy; Baby June and Her Newsboys
- Gypsy; Mr. Goldstone, I Love You
- Gypsy; Little Lamb
- Gypsy; You'll Never Gey Away From Me
- Gypsy; Dainty June And Her Farmboys
- Gypsy; If Momma Was Married
- Gypsy; All I Need Is the Girl
- Gypsy; Everything's Coming Up Roses
- Gypsy; Together Wherever We Go
- Gypsy; You Gotta Have A Gimmick
- Gypsy; Let Me Entertain You
- Gypsy; Rose's Turn
- Some People (Bonus Material)
- Mr. Goldstone / Little Lamb (Bonus Material)
- Momma's Talkin' Soft (Bonus Material)
- Nice She Ain't (Bonus Material)
- Who Needs Him (Bonus Track)
- Michael Feinstein Interviews Jule Styne About Composing the Music for "Gypsy" (Bonus Track)
- Gypsy Rose Lee Remembers Burlesque (Bonus Track)
Free Music Notes for Gypsy-50th Anniversary Edition
Free Music Review: Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here's Gypsy!
Hit: 5 Stars
"Sing out, Louise! Sing out!" As Ethel Merman thundered down the aisle, making her first entrance in GYPSY, little did audiences know that they were indeed witnessing Broadway history unfold before their very eyes. For while Merman was widely considered the First Lady of Broadway, her turn in GYPSY transformed her, quite simply, into a Broadway Legend.
The magic is still palpable on the original 1959 cast album, which has now been reissued again on the Sony Broadway Masterworks label, this time with additional bonus materials. Based on the memoirs of burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, the story follows Louise (Sandra Church), her younger sister June (Lane Bradbury) and their mother, Mama Rose (Ethel Merman), as Rose fights for the vaudeville fame that will put June on the showbiz map. "Talentless" Louise drifts along in the background, playing the front end of the cow in an act that almost sees June get signed with a top theatre producer--that is, until Mama decides to make some extra contractual points. When June, stifled by Mama's grip, finally walks away, Mama focuses her maniacal energies on Louise. A combination of the downfall of vaudeville, and an accidental booking at a Witchita burlesque theater, finally reveals Louise's true calling...
The ultimate backstage showbiz tale, GYPSY is now widely considered the pinnacle of the Broadway musical; but, incredible as it may seem, wasn't exactly a smash hit when it originally premiered! Running a polite 702 performances, GYPSY was overshadowed in the Tony Awards race by fellow 1959 season openers Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Sound of Music" and Bock and Harnick's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Fiorello!". Somehow, Merman lost out on the Tony for what many consider her crowning performance; and the subsequent touring company--also headed by Merman--only lasted eight months. Four Broadway revivals later, the show is now treated as the hallowed masterpiece that it deserves to be.
The original 1959 cast album has always been a steady seller and never really been out of the catalogue. The previous Broadway Masterworks edition released in 1999 (which restored some incidental music to the "Let Me Entertain You" strip, a missing verse from "You Gotta Get a Gimmick"; and replaced Ethel Merman's "Rose's Turn" with a superior alternate take) had beautiful stereo placement and a crisp sound quality that belied it's 1959 vintage. That same content is all here on the 50th Anniversary Edition, along with some fascinating new bonus material, chiefly an interview with composer Jule Styne, and a vintage audio clip of Gypsy Rose Lee talking about her vaudeville and burlesque days.
A required disc in any Broadway fan's collection. [Masterworks Broadway 88697-49406-2]
Gypsy-50th Anniversary Edition Poster
Many a critic and theatergoer's favorite musical, Gypsy is now 50! These Styne/Sondheim songs, and Ethel Merman's career performance, first won hearts in '59; three new bonus tracks (a demo and interviews with Jule Styne and Gypsy Lee Rose) join Everything's Coming Up Roses; Small World; Let Me Entertain You , and more!Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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