Audra McDonald Delivers a Show-Stopping Performance as Rose in New Revival of ‘Gypsy’
The triumph of this production is that its star and her equally venerated director, George C. Wolfe, turn potential liabilities into assets.

Would Audra McDonald be able to have a convincing nervous breakdown onstage? It’s a question that had gnawed at me ever since it was announced that Ms. McDonald, winner of six Tonys and the most celebrated leading lady of her generation in musical theater, would tackle the role of Rose, mother of all stage mothers, in a new revival of “Gypsy.”
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