GYPSY Tyne Daly "Roses" 

Thank you!

I bet! Wow her passion is amazing! Just amazing!

"She was just the right amount of funny, pathetic, and terrifying." A perfect description, thank you. More than one of the major subsequent Roses were total drama queens from the word go. Tyne is also my favorite of the major post-Merman Roses.

Amen. I was fortunate to see this production on Broadway. She was magnificent.

Thanks---I'm so glad you like this as much as I do.

The producer was Barry Brown who also produced the Lansbury revival and the original La Cages. Tyne Daly was my favorite actress as a kid and I remember being home from college when the Dolly show aired and making sure I tuned in to see Tyne. I was in Miami when they opened this Gypsy at the Jackie Gleason. My acting teacher was friends with Barry Brown. At the opening night curtain of Act 1 following this number, there was a shout from the orchestra, "Is there a doctor in the house?" followed immediately by the same shout from the balcony. TWO people had had heart attacks. We noted the headline in Miami Herald might read the next day "Tyne Daly knocks 'em dead." Thankfully, they didn't die to my knowledge.

Lewis Cleale you wouldn’t happen to be the same Lewis Cleale that did Sunset Blvd with Petula Clark would you?

I fully agree---Tyne was Rose.

All true. She was literally terrifying in this number. Watching her almost malevolently freak out while Louise cowered in Herbie's arms, just chilling.

People never mention angela as rose she was just as good where she had the warmth of a mother but also the desperation and how sad and pathetic she is at the end it’s very heartbreaking and scary in her roses turn she has this insane amount of joy that turns to desperation and despair

Yeah patti was just patti to me a lot say she’s the best but she did it to fast for me with her great voice but Angela Lansbury is my favorite rose even Bette was amazing as rose

Not only was she sick, Arthur L. was an absolute PRICK to her. And they weren't supportive of her AT ALL in the studio. Cruel.

I agree.

Linda Lavin was OK, but she adopted this horribly unnecessary, fake Irish brogue, and it just threw me right out of the moment.

Agreed---she can do anything.

Angela threw it out the park with her acting and singing I read somewhere even the real life June said she acted just like her mother

This is a wonderful description of her performance. She was indeed charming and funny, but also sadly deluded.

Thanks and I can only say I agree 100%

She raised the bar so high. Her acting was ferocious.

Kaye Ballard also played Rose in "Gypsy," in stock.

@@auroraspiderwoman5886 no kidding? I'll bet it was wonderful!

I understand your POV. Curious..who met your standards.

@@leahsantavicca5323 Patti Lupone. Ethel Merman. Bernadette Peters. Betty Buckley.

I wish her voice had more power but it was very expressive and she had no peer in the acting department....until LuPone.

Rosalind Russell doesn’t get to have a version since she didn’t sing it.