‘Gypsy’ Broadway Review: Audra McDonald Takes Her Turn At Momma Rose
deadline.comThere aren’t enough dressing rooms on Broadway to contain all the expectations for the new Gypsy, George C. Wolfe’s revival starring the great Audra McDonald.
Considered by theater buffs to be among the greatest stage musicals of the American canon, Gypsy now stars a performer considered among the greatest on any stage.
But along with the high hopes is the question that’s been whispered since the production was announced months ago: Would McDonald, an opera-trained vocalist prized for her impossibly pure soprano, have the grit and belt for the rough-around-the-edges anti-heroine Rose, a character entrusted with a bundle of the finest, gutsiest anthems and ballads ever written by those formidable theater creators Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim?
Would she be able to convey that unnerving combination of monstrous self-absorption and victory that is “Rose’s Turn?” The answer is a qualified, perhaps even reluctant, yes.
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