“EVERYTHING COMES UP ROSES!...Gypsy” has been given a DEFT MODERN MAKEOVER that returns it to its roots...JENN THOMPSON IS JUST THE RIGHT DIRECTOR TO BRING OUT BOTH FEMININITY AND FEMINISM in this tricky show! Goodspeed GLOWS with a JAZZY, SENSITIVE less sexist ‘Gypsy’"

 - Hartford Courant

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“SPLENDID…a POLISHED, SATISFYING SHOW, that toggles between the extravagant and the real, the outlandish and the human, the silly and the traumatic. THOMPSON HAS A WONDERFUL TOUCH in the world of musicals creating natural moments, even out of some of the most absurd ones.”

- Frank Rizzo (CT Critics Circle/Variety)

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"TERRIFIC BEYOND BELIEF…deserves a broadway production…Jenn Thompson has done a MARVELOUS job directing…well worth the trip to East Haddam!"

- Peter Feichia/Broadway Radio

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"REMARKABLE...RAISES THE GAME...The Goodspeed’s production is NOTHING SHORT OF FANTASTIC. Director Jenn Thompson returns to The Goodspeed after directing last summer’s world-premiere Anne of Green Gables and puts an IMPRESSIVE stamp on this iconic musical."

- Broadway World

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"DELIGHTFUL...SINGULARLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING...A classic which first appeared on Broadway in 1959, it benefits here from successful casting selections as well as director Jenn Thompson's interpretation."

- Talkin' Broadway 

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"Goodspeed's 'GYPSY' WILL ENTERTAIN YOU! Director Jenn Thompson and the cast have forged

A VIBRANT PRODUCTION that adeptly mines both the humor and complexity of the source material."

- The New London Day

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"INSPIRING...KEEPS THE AUDIENCE ENTRANCED...Gypsy" is an EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER of song and dance…IT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART.”

-  In the Spotlight

 

"EFFECTIVE and EVOCATIVE…Thompson’s staging picks up the show-biz chaos, its comedy and preposterousness and desperation, which finds its most feverish embodiment in Rose, the quintessential stage mother."

- Critics at Large

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"GYPSY" SHIMMERS AND SHINES at Goodspeed Musicals! Clearly everything’s coming up roses for

this DELIGHTFUL classic musical theater production that SPARKLES and SHINES and SHIMMERS

WITH PASSION."

- The Middletown Press

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"TERRIFIC...as EXCITING now, as it must have been in 1959...Without updating or revising Gypsy, Director Jenn Thompson, choreographer Patricia Wilcox, and music director Adam Souza have taken some great material, polished it, and given it a chance to shine."

- Arts Beat

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"BOY DOES THIS PRODUCTION DELIVER...FANTASTIC performances, INVENTIVE direction and,

of course, beloved songs all add up to DELIGHTFUL night at the theatre."

- News Bulletin

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'BEAUTIFUL...NUANCED...BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN...Goodspeed Opera House could not be a better home for this WONDERFUL NEW PRODUCTION...This is a show that whether you’ve never seen or you’ve seen a million times, needs to be revisited. This is the perfect opportunity to do so."

- The Newtown Bee

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"Gee – Gee – GEE! – It’s a MUST-SEE!...absolutely GLORIOUS!!! This current presentation of “Gypsy”, one of the greatest of all musicals, is a complete SENSATIONAL summer “Stunner” that is NOT TO BE MISSED." 

- BATV

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“POWERFUL…TERRIFIC…a WONDERFUL experience and very much worth a trip to the historic Connecticut River Valley to see it.”

- Berkshire Bright Focus

 

“GLORIOUS...DOES NOT DISAPPOINT…A WINNER for Goodspeed...“Gypsy” still works beautifully with its powerful, funny and ultimately moving story." 

- Stratford Town Crier​

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"POWERFUL...NUANCED...DIRECTED WITH CONFIDENCE AND SKILL by frequent Goodspeed Director Jenn Thompson"

- Stuart Brown (CT Critics Circle)

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"TOP-NOTCH!...a BIG, BOLD, BOISTEROUS take on the classic musical…a WONDERFUL evening of theatre."

- Kiersten Bjork (CT Critics Circle)

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"Gypsy," at Goodspeed, SOARS and ROARS. It's GRAND. It's POWERFUL. It's INSPIRED. 

Jenn Thompson is back in the director's chair, as both storyteller and orchestrator. An instinctive,

adventurous director who takes chances, navigates things stylishly and finds incredible veins of truth

and emotion in everything she builds."

- James Ruocco (CT Critics Circle)