This Could Be Broadway's Next Sicko Musical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                "I had a dream!
                                                 A dream about you, Baby!!!!!!!!!!!"
                                                 --Ethel Merman as Rose Hovick in "Gypsy"
                                                (1959), "Everything's Coming Up Roses!"

                                       It takes place on a bare stage, with minimal scenery. It is staged more conceptually, as the story moves along in a series of vaudeville routines that tell the story.  It involves a troubled mother and daughter relationship.  And the daughter is even named Gypsy Rose!!!!!!!!!

                                        But any resemblance to the Styne/Sondheim classic ends there!

                                        This is a brand new musical, based on a program I saw on ID, called "Gypsy's Revenge!"  Instead of a showbiz obsessed mother determined to keep her daughters' youth, long enough to make them stars, here is a mother plagued with Munchausen By Proxy, who needs to keep her daughter young and chronically ill, so she can gain attention for being such a wonderful mother and caregiver.  In this picture, the real Gypsy is somewhere in her teens, but functions on the level of a child, and cannot walk.  She later discovers she can, and her childishness disappears, when she takes up with an online hookup named Nicholas.

                                             What the mothers in both shows do not realize is once they get their children tot he point they want them, there is no use for them.  With Dee Dee, if Gypsy hand not beaten her to it, you would be right to suggest she would have murdered her own child!

                                             Until then, Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter got all the sympathy and support out there.  Even a Habitat For Humanity Home, built for them, free of charge, in Springfield, Missouri.  I mean, talk about having a gimmick.  Dee Dee knew how to milk it for all it was worth.

                                              But things changed, once Nicholas entered the picture, and Gypsy discovered what Dee Dee had done to her--which was what Dee Dee own mother had done to her.  Only Dee Dee broke free, and now Gypsy was.  But Dee Dee did not resort to murder.  Gypsy did, by having Nicholas kill Dee Dee.

                                                I mean, the final number has to be Gypsy's version of "Rose Turn," holding up the knife in her hand, triumphantly, like "Sweeney Todd."

                                                  Of course they were convicted and imprisoned.  But that could be done in an Epilogue.

                                                     The only problem I see is casting it.  Who could play it?

                                                      Celia Keenan-Bolger, maybe?  Or Tyne Daly?????????????

                                                       If you have any ideas, girls, I would like to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!