Gypsy takes shape

GYPSY is on the right track and so is Lyric Theatre.
The production follows the story of an ambitious mother, Rose, keen to have her daughters on the stage.
She could be referred to as “the show-biz mother from hell”.
Her plans for her daughters are dictatorial and one realises that because Rose never quite made the big time, her daughters will, at any cost.
Gypsy is a great story with humour, compassion, passion, frustration, tenderness, realisation and triumph.
The show covers a period when the daughters, June and Louise, are depicted at two age groups in their career.
It is Louise who, reluctantly at first, becomes Gypsy Rose Lee after June leaves.
Kerrie Giles, Nicole Cooper and Rhonda Melhuish have a gimmick in their roles as stripper artistes in a wonderful cameo appearance in Gypsy to enlighten the young Louise into the ways of the burlesque performer.
Bron Kalos, Gypsy’s choreographer, is putting the trio through their paces.
Kerrie is a seasoned performer with Lyric Theatre, FAMDA and Wonthaggi Theatrical Group.
Her roles go back to Vera in Don’s Party in a joint production with FAMDA. She is a former president of Lyric Theatre and brings to Gypsy her wealth of experience in theatrecraft.
She says she is in awe of director Colin Mitchells’s vision and talent.
Nicole’s passion began with Young Lyric Theatre 27 years ago. Her first stage role was as a juvenile in Oliver. Then came Mack and Mabel, Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods and Witches of Eastwick.
Nicole’s allegiance has been a mix of FAMDA and Lyric Theatre and recently she showed the talent of her children in Bugsy Malone in Foster. She is relieved to have shaken off the role of a witch this time.

In limelight: Janie Gordon as Dainty June, a baby version of one of the two daughters that feature in Leongatha Lyric Theatre’s production of Gypsy. She is flanked by Broadway boys Jackson Patterson (left) and Jack Macdonald.

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