9 June 2015. Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre.

I went to see this on the basis of the reviews of Imelda Staunton's performance. It was indeed powerful and earned her great applause. But so too were other performances, notably her daughters

I’m not really one for musicals and this didn’t convert me to the genre. However, it is an intrinsically interesting story featuring the essentially tigress mother determined to do the best for her daughters during the depression. The contrasting personalities of the daughters – the natural extravert who left home and the introvert who came into her own doing striptease – was very well captured and acted.