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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."
Gypsy is famous for helping launch lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s career, and features a book by Arthur Laurents that is widely considered to be one of the classic examples of a traditional “book musical.”
Working on Gypsy, described as “a musical fable,” with Laurents’s concise, character-driven script and Styne’s ability to crank out tunes proved be a positive experience for all involved, and the show came together quickly over just a few months in late 1958. It debuted successfully in May 1959 and had a nearly two-year run of 702 ...
The story of this work draws from Gypsy Rose Lee’s autobiography, Billed as “a musical fable” (presumably because it tells a true story with fanciful alterations), Gypsy marked Sondheim's only experience working with an old-fashioned Broadway star who wore her roles like tailoring, made to measure. Keywords: Gypsy, musical fable, Gypsy ...
Gypsy is a musical fable, suggested by the real-life memoirs of a great entertainer, Gypsy Rose Lee, whose mother Rose devoted herself to her children’s stage careers.
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May 28, 2019 · “GYPSY: A musical fable.” That disclaimer took the pressure off librettist Arthur Laurents to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. For that matter, we’ll never know how honest Gypsy Rose Lee was when writing her 1957 memoir on which the musical is based.
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The musical Gypsy is based on the memoirs of real-life Burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, whose real name was Louise. Louise and her little sister June supported their family by touring as child performers in the vaudeville circuit in 1920’s America. They did not attend school. Their mother was Rose.
