Everything’s Coming Up Roses

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"Everything’s Coming Up Roses" is a famous show tune from the 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy, known for its powerful, optimistic anthem-like quality and association with the character Rose.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf show tune
song
associatedPhrase Everything’s Coming Up Roses self-linksurface differs
surface form: everything’s coming up roses
associatedWithCharacter Rose
basedOnSourceMaterialOfMusical Gypsy: A Memoir
surface form: Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee
broadwayOpeningProduction Gypsy
surface form: Gypsy (original 1959 Broadway production)
composer Jule Styne NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
decadeOfOrigin 1950s
firstBroadwayVenue Broadway Theatre, New York City
firstPerformanceIn Gypsy
surface form: Gypsy (1959 Broadway production)
genre musical theatre
show tune
hasCulturalRole popular audition piece for belting female voices
signature song for the character Rose
hasForm verse-chorus structure
hasNotableRecordingType original Broadway cast recording
revival cast recordings
influencedIdiom “everything’s coming up roses” used to mean things are going very well
isStandardIn American musical theatre repertoire
lyricalTheme ambition
determination
optimism despite adversity
lyricist Stephen Sondheim
musical Gypsy
musicalTheatreWorkFrom Gypsy
narrativeContext sung near the end of Act I of Gypsy
narrativeFunction expression of Rose’s fierce optimism and ambition
notablePerformer Angela Lansbury
Bernadette Peters
Ethel Merman
Patti LuPone
Tyne Daly
originalBroadwayRosePerformer Ethel Merman
originalLanguage English
partOf Gypsy
Gypsy
surface form: Gypsy: A Musical Fable
publisher music publishers associated with Jule Styne catalog
requiresVocalTechnique belt voice
rightsHolder rights holders of Gypsy (musical)
style anthem-like
sungByCharacter Rose
title Everything’s Coming Up Roses self-link
tone optimistic
powerful
typicalVocalRange mezzo-soprano to belting soprano
writtenForCharacter Rose
yearOfFirstPerformance 1959

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Gypsy notableSong Everything’s Coming Up Roses
How Could It Be hasPart Everything’s Coming Up Roses
this entity surface form: Everything's Coming Up Roses
Ethel Merman notableSong Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Jule Styne notableSong Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Mama Rose sings Everything’s Coming Up Roses
this entity surface form: Everything's Coming Up Roses
Everything’s Coming Up Roses title Everything’s Coming Up Roses self-link
Everything’s Coming Up Roses associatedPhrase Everything’s Coming Up Roses self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: everything’s coming up roses
Rose’s Turn containsMotifsFrom Everything’s Coming Up Roses