"He[Arthur Laurents] was given a book by Gypsy Rose Lee...and then he interviewed her. And June Havoc wrote a book, too. And their views of what happened in their childhood were exactly the opposite, as one would expect. And Arthur realized the only thing he could do was make up a story. And once he decided that, he thought, 'I don't want to tell a backstage story.' And then he thought, 'I know who the central character is: it's the mother, not the daughters.' And once he made that decision - which seems like an obvious choice now, but not when you're sitting down with a book that is written from a daughter's point of view -everything seemed to fall into place."

-Stephen Sondheim

Gypsy opened May 21, 1959 at the Broadway Theatre where it ran for 702 performances. It closed March 25, 1961. Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Arthur Laurents; Produced by David Merrick and Leland Hayward ; Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins.

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Gypsy 2003
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