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Gypsy - 2008 Original Broadway Cast | 
| Artists: Laura Benanti, Boyd Gaines
Creator: Patti Lupone
Label: Time Life Entertainment
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 450
Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 19659
UPC: 610583243123
EAN: 0610583243123
ASIN: B001CHFM12
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Overture | | • | May We Entertain You | | • | Some People | | • | Seattle to Los Angeles | | • | Small World | | • | Baby June and Her Newsboys/Let Me Entertain You | | • | Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone | | • | Little Lamb | | • | You'll Never Get Away From Me | | • | Dainty June and Her Farmboys | | • | Broadway | | • | If Momma Was Married | | • | All I Need Is the Girl | | • | Everything's Coming Up Roses | | • | Together Wherever We Go | | • | The Strip | | • | Rose's Turn | | • | Tomorrow's Mother's Day | | • | Small World/Momma's Talkin' Soft | | • | Nice She Ain't | | • | Smile, Girls | | • | Who Needs Him? | | • | Three Wishes For Christmas |
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Album Description
The Gypsy soundtrack includes bonus tracks.Curtain Up! The smash Broadway musical comes to life in this all new cast recording! It's the new 2008 revival of Gypsy, starring Tony and Olivier award-winner Patti Lupone as the indomitable Momma Rose. This classic American musical by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim about a fractured family stars the larger than life, true Broadway diva Lupone heading the cast as the "stage mother of all stage mothers," determined to make a star out of at least one of her children. Four time Tony-winner Boyd Gaines is the beleaguered Herbie,a gentlemanly candy salesman and reluctant theatrical agent who loves Rose, and Tony-winner Laura Benanti is the wallflower-turned-world-famous-stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, one of Rose's two daughters.
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 I guess you had to be there August 28, 2008
bert1761 (Washington, DC United States)
30 out of 46 found this review helpful
I know I'm going to get a lot of "unhelpful" comments, merely because people will disagree with my negative review of a recording of a performance that has already acquired legendary status, but I have to provide my honest reaction.
I was very excited by the announcement of the release of the CD because of the critical and popular acclaim this production had gotten. Unfortunately, I have not yet had the opportunity to get to New York to see it.
I was very disappointed, however, when I listened to the CD. While I have no doubt that Patti LuPone gave a tour de force performance, I suspect much of her success had to do with her physical presence. As recorded, I did not find her portrayal particularly convincing, thrilling or moving. "some People" does not hint at Rose's fierce determination; instead, it seems merely upbeat. "Everything's Coming Up Roses," which I think is one of the most terrifying moments in all musical theatre, seemed merely optimistic, rather than encompassing a borderline personality. Finally, "Rose's Turn" seemed overcooked. In contrast, howwever, Ms. LuPone was far more effective in the softer numbers and sounds perhaps the most seductive of all Roses in her numbers with or to Herbie.
Perhaps part of my problem with Ms. LuPone's performance from a purely vocal perspective is that her typical mannerisms are particular annoying in this recording. It's one thing to distort the rhythmic line of a song when singing it out of context, but in the context of the show -- and particularly in concerted numbers in which the rest of the performers are singing on the beat -- I found it VERY distracting.
In every other respect, however, I thoroughly enjoy, respect and appreciate this recording. Boyd Gaines, Leigh Ann Larkin and, particularly, the fabulous Laura Benanti are all excellent. In fact, Ms. Benanti proves the opposite of Ms. LuPone in that her acting is totally present in just her voice. When you HEAR her acquiring the confidence she needs to become Gypsy in "The Strip," it will bring a tear to your eye. And "Gotta Get a Gimmick" is performed in a manner that makes you feel like you are actually there watching Mazeppa, Electra and Tessie.
 PATTIS' TURN August 28, 2008
Robert F. Powers (Quincy, Ma USA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
"Roses' Turn" is one of the greatest 11 0' clock numbers ever written for the stage and 50 years ago when Ethel Merman stormed Broadway in "Gypsy" she grabbed the song in a strangle-hold and never let it go.......until now. Patti Lupone roars through this nervous breakdown set to music like a diesel train until the track (pun intended) threatens to lift off the CD. Ms Lupone is simply amazing.
She also belts the first act finale "Everything's Coming Up Roses" with her almost psychotic determination to make Louise the neglected and seemingly untalented daughter into a star after June the perceived star runs off with a dancer from their vaudeville act to escape the clutches of Mama Rose. This song as performed is one of the scariest songs about optimism.
Rose also shows a softer side with "Small World" but even here she has ulterior motives as she seduces poor hapless Herbie a candy salesman into becoming the manager of her rag-tag vaudeville troupe. Boyd Gaines is excellent as spineless Herbie until he grows a backbone and leaves Rose when she pushes Louise into becoming a stripper.
Laura Benanti who I liked in "Nine" and "The Wedding Singer" sings the poignant "Little Lamb" where all she wants for her birthday is to know how old she is (Mama Rose purposely never counted the years).
The score by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim is loaded with other goodies such as "You'll Never Get Away From Me" "If Momma Was Married" "Together, Wherever We Go" "You Gotta Have a Gimmick" and "Let Me Entertain You" which is a appropriate cornball song Rose uses and uses and uses for her hilariously awful vaudeville routine for Dainty June and Louise. There is also a number "Mr Goldstone" where Mr Sondheim uses his clever lyric writing and in the course of a two-minute song manages to pair up the word stone with every kind of stone he could think of eg: grindstone, milestone, rhinestone, millstone and gallstone.
Does anyone really need another "Gypsy" for their musical theatre library? Yes you do when it's Patti Lupone And does Ms Lupone wrest the crown from the great Merman? Well...lets just say the crown now sits a little lop-sided but whomever you prefer, the dynamic Patti Lupone will not dissapoint you.
One little theatrical anecdote: It has always been rumored that when "Gypsy" was being rehearsed, Ethel Merman was threatened by the talents of the young actress who played the title role. She exercised her diva will and had the creators tone down her role. This accounts for the fact that Gypsy is nearly a supporting role. This incident was the inspiration for Jacquelin Sussans "Valley of the Dolls" where Patty Duke as Neely O'Hara was an up and coming broadway musical performer and is fired when Susan Hayward as Helen Lawson the star is worried that the young upstart may outshine her.
HERE SHE IS BOYS, A MUST HAVE FOR GYPSY FANS!!! August 26, 2008
Frank
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Patti Lupone's phenomenal performance as Mamma Rose is captured on this extensive recording, including songs that were cut from the original production.
If you have other recordings of Gypsy, you will still want this in your collection. Patti Lupone's Gypsy is the finest of the many recordings of Gypsy released over the last 30 years. Laura Benanti as Gypsy and Boyd Gaines as Herbie also lift this recording to must have status.
If you don't buy this recording for yourself, buy it FOR ME, FOR ME,
FOR MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Here She Is, World! September 1, 2008
Rudy Palma (NJ)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Ladies and gentleman, presenting Ms. Patti LuPone in her finest hour.
Upon what feels like the umpteenth Broadway production and cast recording, is it really worth it to add this "Gypsy" to your CD collection? You can bet your bottom dollar.
Not only has this tight, supremely gifted cast immortalized its performance on this recording (seeing them perform the show live, however, cannot be equaled - this team works like gangbusters on a nightly basis; I've seen the show on 3 occasions over 3 months), but dusted off many Stephen Sondheim/Jule Styne compositions cut from the original 1959 production and given them a home on record for the first time.
Selections like "Who Needs Him?," which was intended to follow Herbie's departure, or "Smile, Girls," an upbeat, humorous, castanet-filled selection for Rose only heard during one ever performance of "Gypsy" - a 1959 tryout in Philadelphia with the inimitable Ethel Merman - are expertly delivered with equal passion and gusto as staples like "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "You'll Never Get Away From Me," making this particular cast recording a warm, scintillating time capsule.
Boyd Gaines also injects "Nice She Ain't," cut from the original production due to Jack Klugman's reluctance to sing it (on account of his pedestrian vocal abilities) with finesse and personality.
The orchestra is so precise and full of pitch-perfect timing that its performance on record is equal to that of one of the show's nightly performances scheduled to play through January 2009. The sound is tight, inspired and perfectly professional. You can't ask for better.
Without the benefit of between-numbers dialogue, the listener can still perceive Louise's transformation from awkward, underappreciated teenager to bodacious brunette bombshell Gypsy Rose Lee thanks to Laura Benanti's remarkable abilities. LuPone makes Rose as larger than life as Gaines makes Herbie sympathetic and forsaken.
Key contributions from Tony Yazbeck ("All I Need Is the Girl") and Leigh Ann Larkin ("Broadway") also shine with all the sparkle and sizzle exemplary of a top-notch production of "Gypsy."
If there's any way possible, make your way to the St. James Theater by January 4, 2009. Either way, get your hands on this disc.
Wonderful CD August 27, 2008
B. J. Miceli (Boston, MA United States)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I saw this cast perform the show on Broadway in May and I was very impressed at the time. I have heard many actresses as Rose,in person (LuPone, Daly, Lavin) and on record (Merman, Lansbury, Peters, Russell/Kirk, & Midler). This recording simply confirmed the impression Patti LuPone made on me live. Her voice is so powerful, so colorful, but with so much control, I am amazed. It pours out like a force of nature and suits the overbearing, overwhelming Mama Rose perfectly. She is more vulnerable and subtle than Merman (and a better singer by any standard), more brassy and blowsy than Lansbury (a little too ladylike in my view, but sang beautifully), sings so much better than Daly & Russell (who got the character mostly right, however), and is just more appropriate than the petite and underpowered Peters and Lavin. In my opinion, only Bette Midler compares to LuPone for the combo of singing and acting and, even then, I think LuPone is the better singer. Her performance is operatic in its power, while being totally true to muscial theater style. The things she does with dynamics & top notes (which are always under control and never shouted or belted) are amazing. Gyspy is a great show and Rose a great role for a Broadway diva, so it lends itself to many interpretations and performances, but this is the best Rose I have heard and that is reason enough for me to have the CD.
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