History Theatre / Gypsy

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Louise and June - though Louise is probably not a tomboy by choice.

* BreakTheCutie: Louise's journey from shy second fiddler to her younger sister to popular burlesque queen could be seen as this.

* OneOftheBoys: Tulsa, one of the boy dancers Rose picks up, says he and the guys all consider Louise this. She is not flattered.

* OneoftheBoys: Tulsa, one of the boy dancers Rose picks up, says he and the guys all consider Louise this. She is not flattered.

Eventually, June runs away, and Rose decides to put Louise in the spotlight, with an act still similar to the one with June. But by then, Vaudeville has died out save for the {{Burlesque}} theaters. The only reason the show was even taken on was that it would be a clean act, giving less of an excuse for police raids. There are other problems to be dealt with as well - while Louise actually is a good singer and dancer she can't do the kind of routines that June excelled at, and Rose's ideas of how to get Louise in the spotlight are too old fashioned and out of date to work in the changing landscape. Rose's relationship with her lover, manager and partner Herbie also gradually deteriorates over time due to her ruthless ambitions.

Yet that doesn't last long, and the act is finally broken up. Rose pushes Louise to do one last act for an arrested stripper, but insists that Louise do it clean. "Make 'em beg for more, and then don't give it to them!" Louise, now given the stage name Gypsy Rose Lee, takes that advice to its logical extreme, by always leaving the men wanting more of her. This makes her the most successful in the business, but her mother is disgusted.

** Justified, in that she her mother had been dressing her in boys clothes most of her life, so she could be a backround dancer in her sister's act.

Eventually, June runs away, and Rose decides to put Louise in the spotlight, with an act still similar to the one with June. But by then, Vaudeville has died out save for the {{Burlesque}} theaters. The only reason the show was even taken on was that it would be a clean act, giving less of an excuse for police raids. There are other problems to be dealt with as well - while Louise actually is a good singer and dancer she can't do the kind of routines that June excelled at, and Rose's ideas of how to get Louise in the spotlight are too old fashioned and out of date to work in the changing landscape.

StageMom Rose is determined to make her daughters Louise and June stars, but while June is extroverted and talented, Louise is shy and quiet. Rose's act for the two is based on childish, innocent stage personae that they become unable to keep up as they grow older.

Eventually, June runs away, and Rose decides to put Louise in the spotlight, with an act still similar to the one with June. But by then, Vaudeville has died out save for the {{Burlesque}} theaters. The only reason the show was even taken on was that it would be a clean act, giving less of an excuse for police raids.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Louise and June.

* HenpeckedHusband: Poor, poor Herbie. [[Spoiler:Arguably made worse by the fact that he and Rose never actually get married.]]

A Broadway musical that started in 1959, later adapted into a film starring RosalindRussel and NatalieWood in 1962 and MadeForTV movie with BetteMidler, [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory loosely based]] on the life of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. The original is one of the most acclaimed shows in Broadway history.

* HenpeckedHusband: Poor, poor Herbie.

* ShoutOut: In ''{{Airplane}}'', Ethel Merman has a cameo as a shell shocked veteran who thinks he's Ethel Merman, and "he's" singing "Everything's Coming Up Roses".
** Also, Mama Rose of the 1993 TV adaptation is [[HocusPocus Winifred Sanderson]], who now says, "Hello, Salem, my name is Winifred! What's yours?"

* ShoutOut: In '{{Airplane}}'', Ethel Merman has a cameo as a shell shocked veteran who thinks he's Ethel Merman, and "he's" singing "Everything's Coming Up Roses".

* LesYay: Some of the strippers were ''very nice'' to Louise.
** In RealLife, the list of men and women Rose was with stretches on for days. Rose also owned her own lesbian boarding house.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Most of the stripper's outfits, of course, but Gypsy wore just a couple, while most of her outfits were evening dresses, that she took off as little of as possible.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: The kids in the act are never older than ten, no matter what anyone says. To drive this point home, every year there are only ten candles on their cakes. In RealLife, she actually faked June's birth certificate to make her seem three years younger.
** Louise's too.

Yet that doesn't last long, and the act is finally broken up. Rose pushes Louise to do one last act for an arrested stripper, but insists that Louise do it clean. "Make 'em beg for more, and then don't give it to them!" Louise, now given the stage name Gypsy Rose Lee, takes that advice to its logical extreme, by always leaving the men wanting more of her. This makes here the most successful in the business, but her mother is disgusted.

Eventually, June runs away, and Rose decides to put Louise in the spotlight, with an act still similar to the one with June. But by then, Vaudeville has died out save for the {{Burlesque}} theaters. The only reason the show was even taken by on was that it would be a clean act, giving less of an excuse for police raids.

* IWantSong: "I Had a Dream", "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "Rose's Turn".

* TheMusical: Based on the life of Gypsy Rose Lee

* PrettyInMink: Notably a white rabbit coat and hat June wears for one of the acts, and a mink coat Gypsy wears that she lets her mother wear at the end.
** The first film version even had Gypsy wear a dress with a skirt covered entirely with white fox.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Louise, '''''and HOW!'''''

Finally realizing she lost everyone, Rose breaks down and realizes that everything she did was only for herself and out of her own desire to be noticed. Upon admitting that, Rose and Gypsy start to reconcile.

Finally realizing she lost everyone, Rose realizes everything she did was for herself. Upon admitting that, Rose and Gypsy start to reconcile.

'''Note: If you're looking for the race of people referred to by some as Gypsies, see {{Roma}}'''