Gypsy / O.B.C. - Gypsy (Original Broadway Cast) - VINYL LP

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in a Stoughton old style Inchtip-onInch jacket. This was the first stereo recording of Ethel Merman, produced by legendary Broadway cast recording producer Goddard Lieberson and recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studios. This is the first vinyl reissue of this album cut from the original stereo master tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed and plated at RTI. Gypsy is a 1959 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with Inchthe ultimate show business mother.Inch It follows the dreams and efforts of Rose to raise two daughters to perform onstage and casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life. Gypsy has been referred to as the greatest American musical by numerous critics and writers, among them Ben Brantley (Inchwhat may be the greatest of all American musicals...Inch) and Frank Rich. Rich wrote that InchGypsy is nothing if not Broadway's own brassy, unlikely answer to 'King Lear.'Inch Theater critic Clive Barnes wrote that Inch'Gypsy' is one of the best of musicals...Inch and described the character of Rose as Inchone of the few truly complex characters in the American musical...Inch Album Tracks 1. Overture 2. Let Me Entertain You 3. Some People 4. Small World 5. Baby June and Her Newsboys 6. Mr. Goldstone, I Love You 7. Little Lamb 8. You'll Never Get Away from Me 9. Dainty June and Her Farmboys 1. If Momma Was Married 2. All I Need Is the Girl 3. Everything's Coming Up Roses 4. Together Wherever We Go 5. You Gotta Have a Gimmick 6. Let Me Entertain You 7. Rose's Turn