What do Sally Rand, Fanny Brice, Mae West, Seattle's Gypsy Rose Lee, Bette Midler and Cher have in common? Maybe a lot, but next week, they will all be in a show at the Triple Door: Burlesque to ...

`Gypsy,” for those of you who have never seen it, is less the story of the famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee than it is that of her mother, Mama Rose. The mother of all stage mothers, Rose is on… ...

Bette Midler was honored with her own rose at the New York Restoration Project Gala. By Joe Lynch, Billboard Forty years ago, Bette Midler made her proper film debut in the Janis Joplin-inspired ...

In the new Broadway revival of "Gypsy," six-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald takes on one of musical theater's most demanding roles: stage mother Rose, who pushes daughter Gypsy Rose Lee into ...

There are also less ephemeral versions floating around, the 1962 film version starring Rosalind Russell and the 1993 TV movie featuring Bette Midler — both mostly forgettable. Gypsy, suggested ...

Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time. ... Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, Bette Midler and Patti LuPone. ... But Gypsy Rose Lee's success triggers Rose's feelings of abandonment again.

Rosalind Russell played her in the 1962 movie; Bette Midler in the 1993 TV version; and on stage, where it all started, Rose has been played by some of Broadway's greats, including Ethel Merman ...