| re: Lansbury's vocals in Gypsy. | |
| Posted by: emmemmkay 09:22 am EST 12/27/24 | |
| In reply to: Lansbury's vocals in Gypsy. - Delvino 08:00 am EST 12/27/24 | |
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| I'll start by saying this remains the greatest performance I've ever seen in 58+ years of theatergoing - and, yes, we just saw the new production. My first Gypsy on Broadway - I was 16, and I went with my parents, who'd seen Ethel Merman. I remember sitting with trepidation in the Winter Garden moments before the Overture started, because on the OLCR the tempo was so slow and the orchestra thin, as you imagine you might have heard in a real vaudeville house in its dying days. Well ... boom! Full orchestra, the right tempo, and an absolutely shattering performance, which I had the great pleasure of seeing twice more as Miss Lansbury toured the NYC suburbs in future years. I cried so hard during Rose's Turn that I thought I would stop breathing. And I just *had* to buy the alternate version of the recording at Footlight Records - when they still had their store in the Village - just for that high note on "Rose" at the end of Some People. I'm thrilled there's some YouTube of it. | |
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