this be easily one of my favorite musical of all time . bette midler come as close to real magic on screen a anyone have in her turn a gypsy lee blustery and bosomy and brave and very scary mother . she evoke a sense of desperation that be at time both comic and tragic but always genuine and quite beautiful . such charm and grit she be indeed a pioneer woman without a frontier . that frontier be discover for the child . who in turn must forge their own in a world rule by their domineering mother . this particular version be and a i understand it and in it entirety include the brilliant choreography of jerome robbins and as well a the original stage direction .