Audra McDonald, Tony Award-winner for Carousel ... and Kern, along with songs by the next generation of music theatre composers. Her performance demonstrates why The New York Times has declared ...

NEW YORK — From Audra McDonald’s first divine note ... Mama Rose is thorny in attitude but flowery and luxurious in song. As she tells her father, “Anybody that stays home is dead!” ...

On the surface, this may seem like a fairly straightforward production of “Gypsy,” which follows the mother of all stage moms, Mama Rose (Audra McDonald), as she ferociously tries to will her ...