Patti LuPone’s ‘Gypsy’ Heading to Broadway?

Michael Riedel reports today that talks are under way to bring Arthur Laurents’s revival of Gypsy, starring Patti LuPone — whose performance at City Center this summer underwhelmed both Times critics but was much-adored by audiences — to the St. James Theater in the spring. This is excellent news for every theater fan who isn’t a preteen girl.

As always, it’s fun to parse Riedel’s adjectives to guess who’s feeding him his news. Could it be Roger Berlind, “the courtly producer�? The “wonderful� Laura Benanti? Laurents, whose production is “thrilling�? (Our guess is Laurents, since Riedel takes a few extra potshots at Sam Mendes’s 2003 production.) But Riedel is right that a LuPone Gypsy deserves a shot at Broadway. Let her entertain us!

Return of ‘Gypsy’ [NYP]