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Feb 4, 2024 · you've been PATTI LUPONED. First saw Patti in the San Francisco tryouts for Evita: July, 1979 at the Orpheum Theater. She couldn't speak after the performance (later it was said the San Francisco run was when and where she got the role right - the LA tryouts had been rough) but Jesus, she was magnificent onstage.
Mar 17, 2022 · Pattie LuPone would have expected to be the star of the show, as in starring Patti LuPone, she was the only known cast member. I think that is one of the reasons the producers of The Waltons, another family drama, recast all but one of the main adult cast members.
Nov 7, 2020 · LuPone of course has a grudge against Buckley because Buckley sings Meadowlark in concert and says it was written for her. (then she didn't get the role.) LuPone asked her how she'd feel if she sang Memory, Buckley's biggest hit. The odd thing about the squabble over who the song belongs to is odd since Carole Demas was the first star of The ...
Oct 17, 2022 · Patti looks as though she's had sufficient servings of extra cheese pizzas, apple pie, cheesecake, and bags of Hershey's Kisses. To quote the great Elaine Stritch, "Supposition is a waste of time." If Patti hadn't gotten Evita, her career might have been even bigger. There's no logic to that statement.
May 11, 2022 · What's the crime the woman committed? None. The state has lifted the mask mandates in New York. Broadways theatre owners have kept the mandate in place until the end of this month. Those are House Rules. And the House has the right to escort the woman out. Not Patti LuPone.
Sep 10, 2024 · Madonna was great in the movie of Evita, a film that required close ups of the actress in the role. Patti was perfect for the stage production where the audiences needed to hear Evita’a voice in the back rows and the exaggerated mannerisms. [quote]Patti, spreading her hate and division.
Aug 15, 2024 · Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone and Golden Globe nominee Mia Farrow, who will return to Broadway later this month in Jen Silverman's The Roommate, recently dropped by Late Night With Seth Meyers. LuPone and Farrow spoke about their brief rehearsal period (it's only three weeks), the start of their friendship many years ago thanks to Stephen Sondheim, and some shocking evenings working on ...
Aug 27, 2022 · Because she was harshly criticized by her teachers at Juillard. She very quickly developed a hard shell and has considered it vital to her survival since, which any slight setback, she doubles down on it. I love Patti, she obviously sang the score better than anyone else by miles. But Madonna was perfectly cast in Evita, and made the film about ...
Oct 21, 2019 · October 21, 2019 5:15 PM. [quote]LuPone was a success in EVITA but even she claims that the understudy got better notices in the LA tryout. And as she herself says, in the tryout period, she couldn't sing the role. And then for the next 30 years, she trashed Andrew Lloyd-Webber saying he couldn't write for women.
Mar 3, 2023 · Patti LuPone: "I wasn't singing Evita properly on Broadway." She says in this old interview that she asked the producers to help her and they didn't have a solution. According to her account, she only started singing the role correctly once she left the Broadway show and performed Evita abroad in Australia. The whole experience sounds like a ...
