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As mutual birthday presents to eachother, Gina and I got tickets to see the current revival of Gypsy (number 1,000,000th in the last five minutes) starring Patti Lupone. It was a perfect production, I think. It was exactly what it should be. Which is to say, it wasn't the reportedly earth-shaking Bernadette Peters production of five minutes ago; it was what I imagine the show was always like. It was classic. I was most impressed by Boyd Gaines as Herbie; he made me cry a little, which I always like to have happen at some point while watching a musical.

Most surprising and pleasing was discovering the relatively obscure Allison Fraser, who sings two songs I'm currently obsessed with from the relatively obscure William Finn musical In Trousers; here she was Tessie Tura, part of the funniest version of You Gotta Get a Gimmick I've ever seen.

It really is a very, very good show.

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