Gypsy [2008 Broadway Revival Cast / B&N Exclusive Version]

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Winner of three Tony Awards -- for Best Leading Actress, Best Featured Actor, and Best Featured Actress -- this 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy stars the great Patti LuPone as Mama Rose, with fellow Tony winners Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti as Herbie and Gypsy Rose Lee, respectively. Barnes & Noble's exclusive version of the 2008 cast recording boasts Eight Bonus Tracks on a bonus CD.
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The third Broadway revival of the 1959 musical Gypsy closed on May 30, 2004; the fourth, chronicled on this album, opened on March 27, 2008, a gap of less than four years. Ordinarily, even a perennially popular show like Gypsy ...
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Winner of three Tony Awards -- for Best Leading Actress, Best Featured Actor, and Best Featured Actress -- this 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy stars the great Patti LuPone as Mama Rose, with fellow Tony winners Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti as Herbie and Gypsy Rose Lee, respectively. Barnes & Noble's exclusive version of the 2008 cast recording boasts Eight Bonus Tracks on a bonus CD.
All Music Guide - William Ruhlmann
The third Broadway revival of the 1959 musical Gypsy closed on May 30, 2004; the fourth, chronicled on this album, opened on March 27, 2008, a gap of less than four years. Ordinarily, even a perennially popular show like Gypsy would be revived on Broadway only, say, once a decade. But few questioned the wisdom of mounting the show again in 2008, and it quickly became a hit before winning three Tony Awards. The reason, simply, is casting. The third revival featured Bernadette Peters in the starring role of Mama Rose, the maniacal stage mother to the girl who becomes stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, a casting decision that some questioned as inappropriate. Quite the opposite was the case with Patti LuPone, who plays Mama Rose here. LuPone has made a career of portraying relatively unsympathetic characters, starting with her Tony-winning turn as Eva Peron in Evita and including Mrs. Lovett, baker of the human meatpies in a 2005 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd. In her liner notes to this album, LuPone recounts her agreeing to appear in a 2006 production of Gypsy at the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago by saying that she knew "there were many people who wanted to see me play the part," a considerable understatement. That performance was followed by one as part of the City Center Encores! series of concert versions of musicals in New York in 2007, and then this production. Although the casting might seem perfect, however, LuPone had to actually go out and make the role her own, and she has, resulting in her second Tony Award. Her Mama Rose is full of pain and guile as well as bluster, just what the part needs. And, of course, it is sung beautifully. Happily, the star is accompanied by strong supporting performers, including Boyd Gaines as Rose's romantic interest Herbie, and Laura Benanti as Louise (a/k/a Gypsy Rose Lee), both of whom also took home Tonys. Record producer Robert Sher and his associates seem to have realized that, even if LuPone and co. could make theatergoers forget all previous Gypsys on-stage, they had to compete with four previous cast albums, not to mention a movie and a TV soundtrack, and they have done so by making this, as the liner notes say, "the most complete recording of Gypsy ever." It is, in fact, more than complete in that surviving creators Arthur Laurents (who wrote the book) and Stephen Sondheim (who wrote the lyrics to Jule Styne's music) dug into their trunks and found a batch of cut songs, then had the current cast perform them. These tracks, two versions of "Mother's Day," "Momma's Talkin' Soft" (a countermelody to "Small World"), "Nice She Ain't," "Smile, Girls," "Who Needs Him?," and "Three Wishes for Christmas," open up the show in interesting ways. In particular, "Nice She Ain't" might have given Herbie more to do, if the original actor cast in the part, Jack Klugman, had had enough of a singing voice to sing it; Gaines does. "Smile, Girls" and "Who Needs Him?" are excellent songs, although it's easy to tell why they were cut, since they are essentially redundant in terms of the plot. "Three Wishes for Christmas" deserves to join the pantheon of perennially popular holiday songs, and now it may get its chance. With this material, the 2008 Gypsy is more than just another terrific recording of one of Broadway's best scores. [The edition of the album sold by Barnes & Noble added an extra CD containing 11 minutes' worth of dialogue excerpts and musical interludes from the show. This material was not nearly as valuable as the cut songs, but since Barnes & Noble was selling the album for the same price others were charging for the single-disc version, the bonus was an inducement to purchase it there.]
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 8/26/2008
  • Label: Time Life Records
  • UPC: 610583244625
  • Catalog Number: 80020

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Act 1. Overture (5:17)
  2. 2 Act 1. May We Entertain You (0:39)
  3. 3 Act 1. Some People (3:12)
  4. 4 Act 1. Seattle to Los Angeles (1:32)
  5. 5 Act 1. Small World (3:31)
  6. 6 Act 1. Baby June and Her Newsboys/Let Me Entertain You (2:17)
  7. 7 Act 1. Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone (2:26)
  8. 8 Act 1. Little Lamb (2:45)
  9. 9 Act 1. You'll Never Get Away from Me (2:53)
  10. 10 Act 1. Dainty June and Her Farmboys (3:00)
  11. 11 Act 1. Broadway (2:55)
  12. 12 Act 1. If Momma Was Married (2:56)
  13. 13 Act 1. All I Need Is the Girl (5:04)
  14. 14 Act 1. Everything's Coming Up Roses (2:51)
  15. 15 Act 2. Madame Rose's Toreadorables (1:36)
  16. 16 Act 2. Together Wherever We Go (3:51)
  17. 17 Act 2. You Gotta Get a Gimmick (4:43)
  18. 18 Act 2. The Strip (7:20)
  19. 19 Act 2. Rose's Turn (4:19)
  20. 20 Tomorrow's Mothers Day, song (cut from Gypsy) (1:17)
  21. 21 Mother's Day, song (alternate version) (cut from Gypsy) (1:28)
  22. 22 Small World / Momma's Talkin' Soft (cut from Gypsy) (5:00)
  23. 23 Nice She Ain't, song (cut from Gypsy) (1:47)
  24. 24 Smile, Girls, song (cut from Gypsy) (2:49)
  25. 25 Who Needs Him?, song (cut from Gypsy) (1:16)
  26. 26 Three Wishes for Christmas, song (cut from Gypsy) (2:12)
Disc 2
  1. 1 Let Me Entertain You (scene, dialogue and underscoring) (0:48)
  2. 2 Miss Crachitt (dialogue lines, scenes) (0:51)
  3. 3 All I Need Is the Girl (musical scene change music) (0:21)
  4. 4 Entr'acte (2:48)
  5. 5 You Gotta Get a Gimmick (musical scene change music) (0:17)
  6. 6 The Strip (musical scene change music) (0:18)
  7. 7 Act 2 Finale (entire full scene) (2:33)
  8. 8 Exit Music (3:34)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Patti LuPone Primary Artist, Vocals,
Bill Bateman Vocals
Alison Fraser Vocals
Laura Benanti Vocals,
Marilyn Caskey Vocals
Patrick Vaccariello Conductor
Leigh Ann Larkin Vocals
Tony Yazbeck Vocals
Lenora Nemetz Vocals,
Sami Gayle Vocals,
Gypsy Cast Ensemble Choir, Chorus
Gypsy Pit Orchestra Performing Ensemble
Boyd Gaines Vocals
Emma Rowley Vocals
Technical Credits
Stephen Sondheim Lyricist
Patti LuPone Liner Notes
Sid Ramin Orchestration
Jule Styne Composer
Jonathan Tunick Orchestration
Joan Marcus Cover Photo
Robert Sher Producer, Package Concept
Robert Ginzler Orchestration
Serino Coyne Logo Design
Steven Suskin Liner Notes, Synopsis
Arthur Laurents Book
Mike Jason Executive Producer
Olivia Kim Editorial Research
Adam Long Engineer
Darrell McClanahan Mastering
Brandon Wardell Producer
Joshua Clayton Orchestration
Betty Wahlberg Dance Arrangement
Martin Pakladinaz Illustrations
Daniel Troob Orchestration
Philo Barnhart Illustrations
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Patti Lupone in the performance of a lifetime! The role she was BORN TO PLAY!

    Patti Lupone is GOD! Or rather, GODDESS!!! Lupone can do no wrong in her turn as Momma Rose! This is the role LuPone was truly BORN TO PLAY on BROADWAY! Of course there have been other memorable Momma Roses through the years. Some great, others merely adequate (or in the case of the most recent Broadway turn prior to this one barely passing!). But there has NEVER been a Momma Rose like Patti LuPone's Momma Rose! LuPone stacks so many layers upon layers of nuance and deeply developed rich character traits into this walloping incarnation as Momma Rose that it is difficult to imagine any other actor portraying this role either before or aftr LuPone! Even the great Ethel Merman, for whom the part was custom tailored nearly 50 years ago, couldn't hold a candle to LuPone as she tears down the scenery, chews it up, spits it out, and then chews it up again! So much has been said and written about LuPone in this once-in-a-lifetime performance, but I'll give it to you in just one word: FIERCE! Of all the many cast recordings of Gyposy, this is the definitive recording to have! This Barnes &amp Noble special edition 2-CD set complete with a bonus disc with extra songs that appear on no other version of this album holds some very special surprises! There are several songs here that were cut from the original 1959 production and have never been heard since. They can now be heard here by the powerhouse voice of the great Patti LuPone! Patti LuPone won the Tony award for this performance. The show is still running on Broadway! If there's any way you can see LuPone on Broadway in Gypsy, you should do so! If you need to sell your antiques, do so! If you need to get a second mortgage on your house, do so! If you need to cash out the kid's college fund, do so! LuPone. Gypsy. Don't miss it! (And buy this CD!)

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