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Monday, September 25, 2006
 
GYPSY AT CLTP OCT. 5-22: Even award-winning Broadway musicals start on the printed page. A release from Troy Rumpf of the Cheyenne Little Theatre Players notes that the first play of its 77th season, Gypsy, is based on a 1959 book by Arthur Laurents. The story was taken from the memoirs of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee. The Broadway musical teamed up Laurents, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen Sondheim, who earlier had collaborated on 1957’s West Side Story. Originally conceived by Robbins (who directed and choreographed) as a twist on Romeo and Juliet using Jews and Catholics (and called East Side Story), it was transformed by Laurents and Bernstein into the tale of Polish-American Romeo and Puerto Rican Juliet, while their respective gangs fight a street war. Gypsy runs Oct. 5-22 at the CLTP’s Mary Godfrey Playhouse in Cheyenne, with performances Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12-$18. FMI: 307-638-6543.
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