| re: Lansbury "Gypsy" at the box office | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 08:49 pm EDT 05/29/24 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 08:41 pm EDT 05/29/24 | |
| In reply to: Lansbury "Gypsy" at the box office - lanky 08:10 pm EDT 05/29/24 | |
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| I have a soft spot for that Gypsy. It was my first, the West End, June 1973, a Friday night during a rare hot spell in London. I had never seen the whole Russell film, and though I knew the score from my childhood, I was knocked out by the character's devastating meltdown. At age 21, the contemporaneity of the psychology struck me as "ahead of its time" (it's what you say at 21). Later, I saw the Lansbury production again when the American iteration played the Opera House of the Kennedy Center, an inhospitable venue that Lansbury made work. And then, after B'way, I saw it a third time in the least hospitable venue imaginable, at the Shady Grove Music Fair, Gaithersburg, MD, the same tour mentioned in the post. Lansbury's fierce commitment to Rose still resonates with me. I had friends who argued that it was great as "an acting exercise" but that she simply wasn't the character. I always disagreed, and because she was my first, she remains the gold standard. | |
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