Gypsy will be back on the Broadway stage in 2008 staring Tony Award Winner Pattie LuPone.

According to a casting notice, the revival of the musical will open at a theatre TBA on March 27, 2008 with rehearsals beginning at the end of January.

Gypsy ran a limited engagement this past summer at City Center in the Encores! Summer Stars series that also started Pattie LuPone and has now found its way back to the Broadway stage.

Arthur Laurents, Gypsy co-creator, will direct the Broadway production. It has been noted that the entire cast of the Encores! Production has been offered the chance to repeat their roles on Broadway, but only LuPone has currently been cast.

Gypsy features a score by Jule Styne (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrpics) and a book by Arthur Laurents. Ethel Merman created the role of Rose in the original production of Gypsy which closed on Broadway in May 1959 after 702 performances.