Stripping at the New York Public Library!
Patience and Fortitude, cover your eyes! Above: Gypsy Rose Lee. Image Source. GYPSY ROSE LEE: AN AMERICAN ICON LAID BARE Saturday, January 8, 2011 - 7:00 PM EST Tickets and information January 8, 2011 is Gypsy Rose Lee’s 100th birthday! The New York Public Library “Live” series—the same program that brought you Keith Richards and Jay-Z—now brings Gypsy Rose Lee to life. On Saturday, January 8, “Live” will launch its spring season with a centennial bash honoring Gypsy Rose Lee, subject of the greatest musical in American history, novelist, playwright, New Yorker essayist, fashion icon, actress, activist, legend, member of New York’s literati, and in the words of H.L. Mencken, world-famous “ecdysiast.” Expect an evening that will be tremendous, fun, rowdy, risqué, serious, high, low, and everything in between—just like Gypsy herself—featuring striptease performances from America’s top burlesque stars, dramatic readings from never-before-published letters in Gypsy’s archives (wh...