the mother of all stage mothers, is the reason to see this sixth Broadway production of the 1959 musical inspired by the memoir of Gypsy Rose Lee, the (s)mothered childhood vaudevillian turned ...
McDonald plays Mama Rose — a k a Rose Hovick, the real overbearing stage mother of famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. As far as Broadway roles go, the part has no peer. She’s been taken on by ...