Recreates the daily lives of Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Briteen, Jane and Paul Bowles, and Gypsy Rose Lee during the year they spent living together in 1940s Brooklyn.
a musical : suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
Styne, Jule
1994
Presents the 1959 musical, based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, in which a stage mother pushes her daughters into careers on the vaudeville circuit, inadvertently turning one of them into a burlesque stripper.