Regarded by many theater professionals as the greatest musical ever created, GYPSY is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ success… while secretly yearning for her own. GYPSY is loosely based on the 1957 memoir of famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee and is set all across America in the 1920’s as vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. This story of the ultimate show business mother features a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by a young Stephen Sondheim.