Gypsy

Has anyone seen Gypsy? Wondered what it was like.

yeah i saw it the other day i think it is great it is really enjoyable and is worth seeing

Well done to those involved - I thought it was fantastic! Those who haven't seen it yet, I suggest you go along to the Bridge Theatre this weekend! :)

Look, this is very much a case of Too Little Too Late and/or Closing The Gate After The Bull Has Bolted and/or Too Little Bulls Bolted at the Late Gate.......or...........I've just suffered from a diabolical case of Mixed Metaphor (shut UP and get to the bloody point you schoopid COW!!)

Sorry.

I was lucky enough to catch this show in it's last weekend, and too lazy to get to a pooter to review it before it finished!! I can say though that I was VERY impressed!! That Nick Cristou.....jees, is there anything he CAN'T do????! And REALLY well?! He chose a complicated and fat show with a cast of I believe 27? including children and animals! Or animal. Or rather something that resembled a dog, but could well have been a ferret with a bad perm. What did WC Fields say about working with children and animals?? I could really have done with seeing more of the Littlest Moo on stage, Miss Shaw, WHAT a sweetie!! The other children in the cast were an amazing find. Where DID Nick find these babies??? And if this is the calibre of the next generation, may as well hang up me grease now.....

Julia Jenkins BLEW me away! I was lucky enough to work with the Act 1 Scene 1 babies in last year's production of Chicago, and in a very short time, Jules has come a loooooong way! Her singing voice seems to be getting better and better, but it was her acting which really impressed me, I reckon your Rose woulda given ol' Bette a run for her money! Adam McGurk impresses me more each time I see him perform, AND the lil pisher can SING! The young lady who played the Older Rose was very good, great voice (I'm so sorry, I don't know your name as I couldn't find a programme...) but I would have liked to have seen her skank it up a little more when her Gypsy Rose Lee character came to the fore. (Skank It Up is a WELL known theatrical technique by the way...shuddap, it IS!).

The sets were great and I liked the "floating walls" very much. Costumes were very effective, particularly the ones worn by the three Scene Change Fluffies (you know who you are, and Lys if you can show how to boob twirl, I'll be forever in your debt!!)

There were a couple of minor tech glitches the night we went, although I did "get" Oriental Lamp Symbolism in the second half.......heeheehee!

All in all, the production was superb and the energy and talent of the cast seemingly infinite. You should all be very proud of your efforts! Nick, well done shweetie!! Lovin' your work!!!!

Love
J2 xxxxxx

To those of you who have written in thanks for your feedback. I was only told there were some review type things on this site today. I played Gypsy Rose Lee otherwise known as Louise the elder otherwise known as plug.

It was fantastic fun and Julia I have to very much agree with you re Nick, that's coming from one who was there for almost the whole process (barring pre audition stuff). Never have I worked with a better director, and being th oldest in the cast by a few years I've worked with heaps.

To those of you who came and saw the show many thanks and if you have any more feedback you'd care to share about the show or anyone in it please feel free to write to me.

I will try to insert skank it up somewhere in my next theatrical conversation!!!!!

Thanks again

Louise


(Yes my name is really Louise, the same as the characters and I too had a birthday during the season. Bye)

ah yes gypsy
what can one say about gypsy

i too was part of the cast of gypsy is what one can say.

i am writing in defense of the "ferret", I believe was the term applied, little mishpucha sadie is a great talent and a joy to work with. there was no prima donna antics, no trailers or lavish perks did she request, just a dash of chow mein every now and then. if you wanna talk ferrets i suggest we move on to the cow of filth. i refuse that cow as an individual.

all i really wanted to say was
where did the flying fox end up? hahahahaha, personal joke!

moochies to all the gypsy kids, whom i'm sure are glad! the video screening is not far away my little kittens
call, we'll talk, no woop

Julia Dalby wrote:

> That Nick Cristou.....jees, is there anything he CAN'T
> do?

Well...come out of the closet for a start!



Thou puny clapper-clawed burn-bailey!