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Gypsy: Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman,Sandra Church, and a trio of inventive strip-teasers. Etching, 14x181/4 inches, full margins. Printer's proof, signed and annotated in pencil, lower margin. "Gypsy was another of those story ideas that failed to immediately strike one as a sound idea for a Broadway musical. But it worked, and worked beautifully. I didn't even think about it as a musical, really, so well integrated were the songs into the story. It was also a case of the transformation of a huge musical comedy star, Ethel Merman, into a dramatic character role. That's Jack Klugman (making another odd couple with Ethel) on the left, and Sandra Church (peculiar name for a stripper!) as Gypsy Rose Lee. And the three "specialty acts" in the background." HOL/127
