Above all, she was her own creation. Even her name was invented. She grew up as Rose Louise Hovik. When asked if she ever explained why she chose the name "Gypsy," her son, Erik Lee Preminger, said, ...

A husband and wife take to the stage in Smash Productions musical “Gypsy,” which plays Oct. 14-16 in Savannah Center.

In the nineteen-thirties, Gypsy Rose Lee, perhaps the world’s most famous stripper, helped transform burlesque from a vulgar pastime to café-society entertainment, simply by acting refined. She made ...

She's the mother of all stage mothers: Rose, a single mom hellbent on turning her two young daughters into stars during the waning days of vaudeville. But in the musical "Gypsy," she gets top billing.

Gypsy Rose Lee never rushed anything, certainly not a strip tease, and apparently not even her artistic rediscovery. “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly,” Lee had once ...

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Mama Rose long has been known for her powerhouse belt and for being the scariest Bad Showbiz Mother, but not for moving the audience to tears. Audra McDonald, surely the best actress ever to play this ...

Gypsy Rose Lee was one of America's legendary entertainers. On this 100th anniversary of her birth, you may wonder just what makes her legacy endure. Rita Braver can explain: In 1943 she played ...