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      • Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoir of famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, entitled Gypsy: Memoirs of America’s Most Celebrated Stripper.
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  2. 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."

  3. Aug 14, 2024 · Liz Power (left) as June Havoc and Heather Baird as Gypsy Rose Lee in Fable at freeFall Theatre. “Everything’s coming up roses this time for me!” sings stage mother Mama Rose in the finale of the 1959 musical Gypsy. That number is called “Rose’s Turn.”. Doug DeVita’s Fable, a new play now at freeFall, could well be named “June ...

  4. Speculated by many (including NY Times critic Ben Brantley) to be the greatest of all American musicals, Gypsy tells the story of the dreams and efforts of one hungry, powerhouse of a woman to get her two daughters into show business. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoir of famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, entitled Gypsy: Memoirs ...

  5. Gypsy is a 1962 American musical film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents , which was adapted from the 1957 autobiography Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee .

  6. Mar 1, 2003 · It was called Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Taking off from the best-selling memoir of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy, published in 1957, the musical is a backstage saga transmogrified into...

  7. 6 days ago · ***** For many years, theater audiences have been thrilled by the magic of “Gypsy: A Musical Fable” which is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy Rose Lee was a stripper, but one that was more seductive than sexy and in all of her years, never really stripped.

  8. Mar 3, 2018 · March 3, 2018. Gypsy, A Musical Fable, a Broadway classic that debuted in 1959, has become intertwined with the DNA of most Baby Boomers, Gen Xs, Gen Ys, and even Millennials. The book by Arthur Laurents was inspired by the 1957 memoirs of the famous vedette, author and TV personality Gypsy Rose Lee (nee Rose Louise Hovic).