GYPSY, a musical trip back to the dying days of vaudeville, hits the stage at the Hayes Theatre Co in Sydney from May 18.
Mother Rose and her daughters June and Louise are eking out a hard living as vaudeville’s popularity wanes.
Constantly on the road, always on the lookout for a way to fund their next meal – honestly or not – there’s nothing glamorous about their showbusiness life.
Rose will fight for her daughters’ success no matter what the cost, and both girls play along for as long as they can... until first one, then the other, reach breaking point and begin to question Rose’s real motives for their life on the stage.
Gypsy stars Sydney Theatre Award winner Blazey Best as Rose, supported by Laura Bunting and Sophie Wright as her daughters.
Set across America in the 1920s, the show documents the dying days of vaudeville and the birth of a shocking new form of entertainment – burlesque.
Rose’s fanatic determination pushes her family’s loyalty to breaking point, but from the most unlikely of places emerges one of the 20th century’s most illustrious and ingenious entertainers, Gypsy Rose Lee.
- Gypsy: A Musical Fable, Hayes Theatre Co, Greenknowe Ave, Potts Point, from May 18: Mon 6.30pm, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, Wed and Sat matinee 2pm (no performance June 11). Book on (02) 8065-7337, hayestheatre.com.au