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The musical 'Gypsy' opens on Broadway

Gypsy is a 1959 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother."

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

died 1952

John Garfield

born 1973

Noel Fielding

born 1917

Raymond Burr