The most awarded performer in Tony history.
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The greatest musical of all time. A star turn for the ages.
It’s Her Turn.
GYPSY
STARRING SIX-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER AUDRA McDONALD
DIRECTED BY FIVE-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER GEORGE C. WOLFE
REOPENING THE LEGENDARY MAJESTIC THEATRE
BOOK BY TWO-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER ARTHUR LAURENTS
MUSIC BY TONY & ACADEMY AWARD WINNER JULE STYNE
LYRICS BY EIGHT-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER, GRAMMY, ACADEMY AWARD & PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
SUGGESTED BY THE MEMOIRS OF GYPSY ROSE LEE
CHOREOGRAPHY BY FOUR-TIME TONY AWARD-NOMINATED CAMILLE A. BROWN
TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2024, at 10AM
PERFORMANCES BEGIN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2024
OPENING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2024
REPOPENING THE LEGENDARY MAJESTIC THEATRE
Producers Tom Kirdahy and Mara Isaacs along with Kevin Ryan and Diane Scott Carter have announced that six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway this fall, taking on what is widely regarded as the greatest role in musical theatre, “Rose” in GYPSY. This upcoming revival will be directed by the legendary five-time Tony Award-winning Director George C. Wolfe. GYPSY features a book by Tony Award Winner Arthur Laurents, music by Tony and Academy Award Winner Jule Styne, and lyrics by Tony, Grammy, Academy Award, and Pulitzer Prize Winner Stephen Sondheim.
The choreography will be by four-time Tony Award-nominated Camille A. Brown. Additional casting and creative team members will be announced at a later date.
“When we began this journey we had the specific dream of pairing Audra McDonald, our most lauded stage actress, with legendary director George C. Wolfe in a musical deemed by many to be the greatest. Sometimes the theatre gods smile upon us. This is one such time. We could not be more honored to bring this particular GYPSY to the Broadway stage and also include the singular Camille A. Brown as part of our creative team," said producers Tom Kirdahy and Mara Isaacs.
Performances will begin Thursday, November 21, 2024, at Broadway’s newly renovated Majestic Theatre (245 West 44th Street) and will open on Thursday, December 19, 2024.
According to The New York Times, “Audra McDonald has become to the American theater what Meryl Streep is to film — a star of unstinting polish and versatility. Ms. McDonald embosses any production in which she appears with a good-value guarantee.” GYPSY reunites George C. Wolfe, whom The New Yorker calls “a titan of the American theatre,” with Audra McDonald, after their collaboration on the 2016 Tony-nominated production of Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. The Tony Awards Administration Committee recently announced that this June, George C. Wolfe will receive the 2024 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre.
Tickets for GYPSY go on sale Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 10am via telecharge.com.
GYPSY is produced by Tom Kirdahy, Mara Isaacs, Kevin Ryan, Diane Scott Carter, Peter May, and Thomas M. Neff.
GYPSY has been lauded by critics and musical theatre fans alike as the greatest musical of all time, the ultimate backstage tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughter’s success – while secretly yearning for her own.
''GYPSY tapers off from perfection in the first act to mere brilliance in the second.” - Kenneth Tynan, The New York Yorker – 1959
“Everything about GYPSY is right. The Jule Styne score has a lilt and a surprise to it. The music bounces out of the pit, assertive, confident, and cocky, and has a love affair with Stephen Sondheim's elegantly paced, daringly phrased lyrics. And then there is the book by Arthur Laurents. Rose is possibly one of the few truly complex characters in the American musical. Yes, the show has everything going for it. GYPSY is one of the best musicals and it improves with keeping. – Clive Barnes, The New York Times - 1974
“I've always had only one choice in the category of favorite musical. It is GYPSY. This show actually keeps improving with age. A wrenching fable about a tyrannical stage mother and the daughters she both champions and cripples - yet also a showcase for one classic Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim song and rousing Jerome Robbins vaudeville routine after another - GYPSY is nothing if not Broadway's own brassy, unlikely answer to King Lear. It speaks to you one way when you are a child, then chases after you to say something else when you've grown up. Like Lear, it cannot be done without a powerhouse performance in its marathon parental role.” – Frank Rich, The New York Times – 1989
“I was more persuaded than ever that GYPSY is one of the most enduring creations of the American theater, its scenes are as punchy as the vaudeville routines of its milieu, as relentless as Rose herself, pushing the story ahead in jump cuts to the punctuation of what may be the most seductive show tunes ever written.” -Frank Rich, The New York Times - 2003
“The American musical's most daunting maternal role: Momma Rose, the ultimate stage mother in the ultimate backstage show.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times - 2003
''It holds up the way Citizen Kane holds up. Every scene is juicy. The characters are vivid. The songs are sharp and entertaining. You can't get bored in Citizen Kane, and you can't get bored in GYPSY.” – Stephen Sondheim, 2003
“Styne’s score is one of the best for any show ever.” - Ben Brantley, The New York Times – 2008
Since GYPSY premiered on Broadway in 1959, starring Ethel Merman, many of the greatest performers in Broadway history have taken on the iconic role of “Rose”: Angela Lansbury in 1974, Tyne Daly in 1989, Bernadette Peters in 2003, and Patti LuPone in 2008. Now… it’s Audra’s turn.
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