Gypsy is an epic musical. Like Shakespeare vs. Brecht vs. Godzilla epic. Mama Rose (Carla McDonald) is the show-tune-singing King Lear of stage moms and a pragmatic Mother Courage tirelessly stomping across the gooey battlefields we call love and show business. Set mostly against a background of the Great Depression, the Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents […]