Dressed in Blue Light
Amy Larocca: Gypsy Rose Lee, 11 March 2010
Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee
by Noralee Frankel.
Oxford, 300 pp., £12.99, June 2009,978 0 19 536803 1 Show More
by Noralee Frankel.
Oxford, 300 pp., £12.99, June 2009,
Gypsy: The Art of the Tease
by Rachel Shteir.
Yale, 222 pp., £12.99, March 2009,978 0 300 12040 0 Show More
by Rachel Shteir.
Yale, 222 pp., £12.99, March 2009,
“... men to sobbing matri-rage – particularly when Patti LuPone is involved. Both Stripping Gypsy by Noralee Frankel and Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel Shteir struggle, much like their subject, to escape Rose’s heavy shadow – ‘the musical’s premise that the only moving force in Gypsy’s rise to fame was her mother is an illusion that needs ... ”
