But in the musical "Gypsy," she gets top billing. Rosalind Russell played her in the 1962 movie; Bette Midler in the 1993 TV version; and on stage, where it all started, Rose has been played by ...

Here she is, boys! Gypsy is back on Broadway and Audra McDonald is a Mama Rose for the ages. This new revival breathes new life into one of musical theater’s most iconic works. Based on the ...

Audra McDonald as Momma Rose in the musical “Gypsy” at the Majestic Theater in Manhattan.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Supported by By Laura Collins-Hughes This jukebox musical ...

“Gypsy” is, by the estimation of many — including me — the greatest musical ever written. But you wouldn’t know it from the slow and unsteady revival starring Audra McDonald that opened ...

While any production of Gypsy sinks or soars on the back of its Rose, the musical - with its robustly crafted book by Arthur Laurents, suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee; its lustrous ...

Promise the audience something, then make ’em wait; that’s also the strategy of the fifth Broadway revival of the legendary musical “Gypsy,” from 1959, now at the Majestic. The key promise ...

Louise,” Audra McDonald galvanizes our attention in the extraordinary new revival of the Stephen Sondheim-Jule Styne-Arthur Laurents musical “Gypsy.“ This is perhaps to be expected.