Gypsy Film Adaptation With Bette Midler Streams Free This Weekend

The 1993 film adaptation of Gypsy, starring Bette Middler, has returned for free streaming and is now available in full HD.

Directed by Emile Ardolino (Sister Act, Dirty Dancing), this adaptation was originally broadcast and sold to CBS and was later made available on home media.

While most copies are now out-of-print, the film was recently remastered using its original prints and published in its original HD cut that was previously unseen both on television and on home media.

Here's how to stream Bette Midler's Gyspy now:

Unlike the original film, which was not loved by book writer Arthur Laurents, the 1993 adaptation received an unprecedented twelve Emmy nominations including Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Midler.

The 1993 adaptation retained most of the original score from the stage show, which was released as a soundtrack that peaked at #183 on Billboard's album chart.

The film will be available to stream for free starting today, October 7th, with no specified end date. A link to the stream through TUBI has been added to our list of free streaming musicals and plays.

A stage production of Gyspy, filmed live in the West End starring Imelda Staunton, is also available to stream.

The film stars Bette Midler as Rose Hovick, Cynthia Gibb as Louise Hovick, Elisabeth Moss as Baby Louise, Hovick Peter Riegert as Herbie Sommers, Jennifer Rae Beck as June Hovick, Lacey Chabert as Baby June, Hovick Edward Asner as Pop Charles Thompson, Linda Hart as Miss Mazeppa, Anna McNeely as Miss Electra, Christine Ebersole as Tessie Tura, and Michael Jeter as Mr. Goldstone.

In his review for Variety, Jonathan Taylor said: "Remounting “Gypsy” for TV is no easy task. It requires guts to put on a musical in the face of general public apathy toward the form. It also takes faithfulness to the Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim classic score, staging that won’t get lost in TV’s 19-inch landscape and, most important, an actress in the role of Mama Rose with the charisma and skill to make viewers forget Ethel Merman, who originated and defined the part. This new production, headed by Bette Midler in the role she was born to play, succeeds on those counts and sets itself up as a potential holiday perennial."