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"You Gotta Get a Gimmick", also known as "You Gotta Have a Gimmick", is a song from the 1959 musical Gypsy, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The 1959 rendition of the song was sung by Chotzi Foley, Faith Dane , Maria Karnilova and Milton Rosenstock.
Pages in category "Songs from Gypsy (musical)" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee , and focuses on her mother, Rose , whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother ."
Allmusic said, " 'Let Me Entertain You' is the song that is invariably used to introduce anything having to do with the strip tease." [4] Friedriskburg.com described it as a "renowned musical number." [5] CurtainUp calls it a "sister act" and "scary," due to the "frightening stage mother." [6] Artsnats deemed it a "striptease reprise."
Gypsy is a 1962 American musical film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from the 1957 autobiography Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee. Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for songs composed by Jule ...
However Sondheim added that Merman performed the song with an "intensity [which] came as a surprise." [3] The emergence of "Everything's Coming Up Roses" as a Broadway anthem began with the song's melody being used to open and close the 14th Tony Awards ceremony on April 24, 1960. (Ironically Gypsy won none of its eight Tony nominations.) [4]
Gypsy is the soundtrack to the 1993 television adaptation of Gypsy.It was released by Atlantic Records on November 23, 1993, in the United States. Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee and the 1959 musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable, written by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, it depicts the life and times of a burlesque stripper and her domineering mother, starring Bette Midler as Mama Rose.
"Together (Wherever We Go)" is a song, now considered a standard, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, written for the musical play Gypsy in 1959. It was introduced by Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman, and Sandra Church.