Runs on select dates though Wed 8/4
If you haven’t seen Ohio Light Opera’s performance of Gypsy, consider this a nudge to do so. Many consider Gypsy to be the quintessential Broadway musical. It’s timeless and has tunes anyone could recognize.
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Based loosely on the autobiography of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, the show triumphs in its portrayal of Gypsy’s stage mother, Rose, who pushes her two children—Baby June and Louise—into show business, not for their benefit, but rather to live vicariously the career that she herself never had. When the more talented June runs away with a boy, Rose shifts her attention to Louise, who fills in for a stripper one night and begins a meteoric rise as striptease queen Gypsy Rose Lee, with increasingly little need for her mother. Only when Louise overhears her mother, on a bare stage, giving the performance that life and circumstance denied her does she begin to understand her mother’s need for attention and how similar they really are.
Freedlander Theatre – 329 E. University St. – Wooster
http://OhioLightOpera.org/2010_season_1.html