Gypsy, the famous broadway musical, was revived once again in the summer of 2008. This musical tells a story of a stage mother obsessed with making her children stars and travels around the county from gig to gig for years.
From the moment this musical starts, the audience is dazzled with costumes made form gorgeous materials that would be too expensive for a poor gypsy and her struggling family. The mother Rose wears simple but beautifully designed 1930's dresses and matching purses and hats. Her coat, a bit shabbier, can't cover up the quality of the costumes.
In act two, when the family winds up working in a burlesque theater, they meet three women whose barley there costumes wowed the audience with light bulb bikinis, and 5 foot wings.
In act three, the costumes go a level up as Gypsy Rose Lee, the mother's older daughter becomes a famous burlesque dancer. As the burlesque performances get more grandiose, so do the costumes. More sequences, finer fabrics and sparkling shoes grace the stage scene after scene.
Unfortunately the costumes can no longer be seen as the show closed early, in January of 2009, due to financial hardships on broadway. Maybe they'll show up at an exhibit in the NYPL Perform Arts library in a few years.
To see more photos, visit the show's website: http://www.gypsybroadway.com/#about
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