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    -Gypsy: Show page I Preview music I Buy tickets
    -Faculty: Krista Hansen I Bill Jenkins
By Jonathan Salamanca

Gypsy is a large production, with a large tale to show and tell.

For Krista Hansen, artistic director of Dominican’s Performing Arts Center, it’s also a large opportunity to show off the university’s most talented voices, actors and technical capabilities.

“Some of Broadway’s most famous songs come from this show, which has been revised on Broadway numerous times. It’s garnered multiple Tony Awards and showcases some of the most talented Broadway actors,” said Hansen, who is directing the show.

Filled with heart and great characters, this comedic musical will make its premier at 7:30p.m. Friday in the Lund Auditorium and will continue Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. With its astounding visual scenes and talented voices, it’s sure to entertain.

Gypsy is a story about love and loss. It’s about a mother who pushes her daughters into show business during the late vaudeville and early burlesque era. The story traces characters through to their self-actualization.

“It’s based on the true-life events of people—Gypsy Rose Lee is the single most famous stripper in American history and this is kind of the story of how she got started,” said Hansen.

The show takes place in the late vaudeville era, making it ideal for a musical, guaranteed to sway audiences’ heads and give shoes a tapping beat from the opening act to the grand finale.

The superb cast, Hansen said, features some of the most prominent student voices on campus.

Senior Jacqueline Travers plays the lead role of the strong, confident and sometimes overpowering Mama Rose. Sophomore Rebecca Duff plays Louise Rose, the timid daughter who never gets the love and attention she deserves. Senior Nicholas Bublitz plays Herbie Sommers, who stands by Mama Rose as her daughter’s business agent and later mama’s love interest.

“Jacque Traviers, performing on a bare stage, doing it all by herself is mind blowing. She is such a talented woman and it’s just incredible to see her performing,” Bublitz said.

The stage’s maximum capacities are being utilities for the show, with about 24 of the theater's fly-lines being used during the production for backdrops, curtains, scene change materials, and lights.

“Every scene is a new entire set. Nothing in the show is simple. If you come and aren’t interested in theatre and don’t really care for the singing, just watch all the costumes—they’re so ridiculous and all the set changes are so fast. Technically its fascinating,” Duff said.

“If anyone has ever experienced being stepped on after you’ve given someone everything— this show is about that,” Bublitz said. It’s just remarkable. It’s a classical musical.”

General admission tickets are $15. To buy tickets, visit http://www.dom.edu/pac/Gypsy.html or call the Dominican University Box Office at (708) 488-5000.