The Making of Gypsy

by Keith Garebian

The difficulty for a modern star in Gypsy today is the competition with a ghost-Ethel Merman's, to be exact. It's no longer a case of making the role Mama Rose credible in all her volcano-force anomalies-of making her seem crazy yet funny, pitiful, and savage, sinner, and sinned against. She is downright interesting in her own right and in Arthur Laurent's writing, only a sub-par actress would fail to capitalize on that interest.

Genres: Theatre

Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Keith Garebian is a widely published, award-winning freelance literary and theatre critic, biographer, and poet. Among his many awards are the Canadian Authors Association (Niagara Branch) Poetry Award (2009), the Mississauga Arts Award (2000 and 2008), a Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Award (2006), and the Lakeshore Arts & Scarborough Arts Council Award for Poetry (2003).

Reviews

[Taylor · Rating 2 out of 5]

This series really lacks any depth but it is fun light reading on the background of the show. This is somewhat nitpicky but it seems that the author just cut and pasted the section on Jo Mielziner from his Guys & Dolls book [or vice versa, I'm not sure which one came first.].