“This time for ME!”: First look at Audra McDonald & the new trailer for ‘Gypsy’

“I was born too soon and started too late,” bemoans an enraged Mama Rose as she demands that her wallflower daughter, Louise, step into the spotlight when her half-sister, June, steals away in the middle of the night to escape her mother’s oppressive hold. But not Audra McDonald, who returns to Broadway after six Tony wins to step into one of the epic musical theater roles of all time.

Gypsy is the Broadway mothership, a role originated by Ethel Merman in 1959 and subsequently played by Angela Lansbury (1975), Tyne Daly (1989), Bernadette Peters (2003), and Patti LuPone (2008). But this Gypsy has the imprint of renowned director George C. Wolfe (Rustin starring Colman Domingo, the original Broadway production of Angels in America). His reimagining

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