The character of Rose has been famously played through the years in film and on Broadway by Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Bette Midler and Patti LuPone, to name a few. In APA’s production, Rose is ...

Bette Midler won best performance by an actress in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television in 1994 for playing the role in a 1993 TV movie for CBS.

Gypsy also includes one of the greatest featured roles in Broadway history – Rose’s daughter, Louise. Six actresses have been nominated for playing her, more than any other featured role.

Dessay said that she did not want to use her operatic voice, mentioning such Rose interpreters as Ethel Merman, Bette Midler (in a made-for-TV movie from 1993) and LuPone as inspirations.

Her first experience with the show was the 1993 television movie, starring Bette Midler as Momma Rose. “In theater school, they spent a lot of time loving on ‘Gypsy’ and making us see how beautiful of ...

One of Joy Woods’s favorite parts of performing in the current Broadway revival of Gypsy happens just before she makes her first entrance. Hidden backstage—behind a red, white, and blue ...

Bette Midler shares a video of the Halpin family singing on the burned remains of their Altadena home, which was destroyed in the Eaton Fire. Kayla Oaddams/WireImage/Instagram @bettemidler Amid ...

Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time. Audra McDonald is starring in a new Broadway revival, and the race-conscious casting gives the production a new frame.

Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time, by critics and historians. Its central character, Mama Rose, is the ultimate stage mother and has been catnip for some of the finest musical theater ...