Gypsy

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Gypsy is a celebrated Broadway musical—later adapted into film and television—based on the memoirs of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, renowned for its powerful score and the iconic stage role of her domineering mother, Mama Rose.

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instanceOf Broadway musical
stage musical
adaptedAs 1962 film Gypsy
Gypsy self-linksurface differs
surface form: 1993 television film Gypsy

multiple television productions
alsoKnownAs Gypsy
surface form: Gypsy: A Musical Fable
basedOn Gypsy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Gypsy: A Memoir

memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
bookBy Arthur Laurents
centralTheme ambition
parent-child relationships
show business
choreographer Jerome Robbins
composer Jule Styne
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Jerome Robbins
hasGenre biographical musical
drama
musical theatre
hasIconicRole Mama Rose
language English
lyricist Stephen Sondheim
mainCharacter Gypsy Rose Lee
June
Rose Thompson Hovick
surface form: Rose Hovick
notableCharacter Mama Rose
notableRevivalLocation Broadway
West End
notableSong Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Let Me Entertain You
Rose’s Turn
Small World
Some People
Together, Wherever We Go
You’ll Never Get Away from Me
originalBroadwayCity New York City
originalBroadwayOpeningDate 1959-05-21
originalProductionType Broadway
originalTheatre Broadway theater
surface form: Broadway Theatre
producer David Merrick
Leland Hayward
recognizedAs one of the greatest American musicals
roleOfEthelMerman Mama Rose
setting burlesque world
vaudeville circuit
starred Ethel Merman
subjectMatter life of Gypsy Rose Lee
relationship between stage mother and daughters
timePeriodDepicted 1920s
1930s

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