03-25-12 – Cleveland, OH>Detroit, MI – Gypsy
Gypsy is the ultimate story about an aggressive stage mother. Join Rose, June and Louise in their trip across the United States during the 1920’s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. Jule Styne’s music and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics include Let Me Entertain You, Some People, Everything’s Coming Up Roses, You Gotta Get a Gimmick and Together Wherever We Go. This is a gripping story of one of the most frightening aspects of show business. — Submit Yourself To This Role Now: Live Event

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12-25-11 – Portland, OR>Seattle, WA – Auditions for
Gypsy

Production Dates:

April 13 – May 6, 2012

About the musical:

Based loosely on the memoirs of burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee, this 1959 musical is about the ultimate pushy stage mother. The story begins in the 1920s as Rose pushes her two young daughters onto Uncle Jocko’s Kiddie Show, their first stop (so she believes) on the road to vaudeville fame. They set off across the country, living out of dilapidated hotels, never quite achieving the kind of stardom Rose has in mind, until once-shy Louise transforms herself into Gypsy Rose Lee. With well-known songs like “Let Me Entertain You,” “Together, Wherever We Go,” and “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” Gypsy occupies a much-lauded place in American musical theatre history. — Submit Yourself To This Role Now: Live Event

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01-31-11 – Boston, MA>Hartford, CT – The story starts in Seattle with stage mother, Rose, pushing her two daughters into Uncle Jocko’s Kiddie Show. June, her mother feels, is the most likely to become a star. Louise is plainer and quieter; she stands meekly in her sister’s shadow. A new act called ‘Baby June and her Newsboys’ is conceived by Rose, and the family is off to the ‘big time’ in Los Angeles. The act, steeped in star-spangled banners, dancing horses (Louise plays the rear end), and screaming newsboys moves to Dallas, Akron, New York, Buffalo and Omaha. Along the way Rose meets Herbie, a theatrical agent, and hires him as manager. He makes himself father to the troupe, sharing with them their meals of chow mein, Rose’s favorite food. Rose scrimps as she schemes and scrambles for bookings and billings to maintain their hand to mouth existence. She sleeps her charges six in a dingy hotel room and makes their costumes from stolen hotel blankets. Her object is to make her two penniless girls into world stars. The girls begin to grow up and the act becomes ‘Dainty June and her Newsboys.’ Unfortunately its quality does not improve. Bookings are cancelled and the act moves on. Louise wishes that Momma would marry a plain man so they could settle down. Herbie proposes but is rejected. June elopes with Tulsa, one of the boys in the act. Rose, now, sets out to make Louise into the star. She bursts into new, if not psychotic, enthusiasm with the rousing number Everything’s Coming Up Roses. Behind Rose lies a worrying sense of doom; a feeling that she never will fulfill her dream of stardom for her girls because it is really a dream of stardom for herself. Finally the troupe reaches the bottom, a burlesque house in Wichita. Rose laments that she would rather starve than perform there. Louise realizes there is no vaudeville left except for burlesque. Three strippers at the theatre convince Louise that there is nothing to the art if you have a gimmick in a most exaggerated, but very funny number, You Gotta Get a Gimmick. When the theatre’s star stripper is arrested, Rose sees a chance to shove Louise into the spotlight. Disgusted by her willingness to have her daughter perform in a Burlesque house, Herbie leaves Rose for good. Rose subdues her obvious heartbreak and helps Louise get ready. She tells Louise that she won’t actually strip. She’s a lady…”make them beg for more, and then don’t give it to them”. Lousie does just this, only dropping a dress strap, and the audience goes wild. The once clumsy Louise shoots into super-stardom by becoming something different: a ladylike stripper. At last Louise breaks away from her mother and goes out on her own as Gypsy Rose Lee. Rose bursts into the plaintive Rose’s Turn in which she sings of her suppressed talents that she has sacrificed to further the careers of her unappreciative daughters. In one of the musical theatre’s most thrilling moments, Rose comes to terms with her obsession. She offers a flag of peace to her daughter, but it is clear that the road ahead will be bumpy for them both. History tells us the rest…
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