{"id":106037,"date":"2022-11-16T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/?p=106037"},"modified":"2023-08-03T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:09:37","slug":"gypsy-a-musical-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/gypsy-a-musical-fable\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Miss Gypsy-A Musical Fable-Nov. 11-Dec. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ross Valley Players and the Mountain Play present the timeless music of Jules Styne and the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim with Gypsy, A Musical Fable<\/em> running November 11 to December 18 at the Barn Theater in Ross.<\/p>\n

The story is suggested by the memoirs Gypsy Rose Lee, a stage mother who is \u201calways plotting and planning her daughter June\u2019s rise to stardom and desperately reaching to feel the spotlight herself,\u201d according to Director\/Choreographer Zoe Swenson-Graham. Mama Rose is \u201cblindly ambitious, closed off, and complex\u201d making the role a challenge for any actor. Dyan McBride rises to the occasion with a fine performance. Her command of the stage is immediate and her acting and singing is enchanting. DC Scarpelli is no less charming in the role of Herbie, a former agent who agrees to become the act\u2019s manager\/promoter.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Fry is cute and funny as the younger Baby June and Julia Ludwig is equally good as the older \u201cDainty\u201d June. In Act One Baby June and \u201cHer Newsboys\u201d (the real name of the 1920\u2019s traveling vaudeville act) sing and dance their hearts out with hits like \u201cLet Me Entertain You\u201d and \u201cSmall World.\u201d Jill Jacobs gives a standout performance as June\u2019s plain sister Louise in Act One. In Act Two she transforms into the burlesque star, Gypsy Rose Lee.<\/p>\n

Kudos to the show\u2019s Music Director Jon Gallo and Adriana Gutierrez for her lovely vintage costume designs. Eileen Grady (Mountain Play Association Executive Director & Artistic Producer) and Steve Price (RVP Executive Producer) deserve applause as well for the time and talent they give to this production.<\/p>\n

Coming up next at Ross Valley Players is Ross Alternative Works\u2019 production of Reservations<\/em>, a new play by Joe Barison, directed by Michael R Cohen January 27-February 12, 2023.<\/p>\n

Flora Lynn Isaacson (with Lori Wood)<\/p>\n

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