Broadway's Patti LuPone to Guest Star on CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND

By: Oct. 26, 2016
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According to E!News, The CW's musically-themed CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND will welcome Broadway royalty Patti LuPone as a guest star during the show's sophomore season.

According to the report, Ms. LuPone will appear in the 10th episode of Season Two, scheduled to air sometime in 2017. The Tony Award winner will portray "a pivotal person from Rebecca's past that she rediscovers when she returns to her hometown for a family celebration."

LuPone is a two-time Grammy Award winner and a two-time Tony Award winner. She is also a 2006 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee. The actress made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She received the first of six (as of 2014) Tony Award nominations for the 1975 musical The Robber Bridegroom. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Eva Perón in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita. She played Fantine in the original London cast of LES MISERABLES and Moll in The Cradle Will Rock, winning the 1985 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in both. She won a second Tony Award for her role as Mama Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy.

Other stage musical performances include her Tony-nominated role as Reno Sweeney in the 1987 revival of Anything Goes, her Olivier-nominated role as Norma Desmond in the 1993 original production of Sunset Boulevard in London, her Tony-nominated role as Mrs. Lovett in the 2005 production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and her Tony-nominated role as Lucia in the 2010 original production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. She also won two GRAMMY AWARDS for the recording of the 2007 Los Angeles Opera production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; for Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording.

On television, she starred in the drama series Life Goes On (1989-1993) and received Emmy Awardnominations for the TV Movie The Song Spinner (1995) and for her guest role in the sitcom Frasier(1998). She also had a role in the third season of the FX thriller series American Horror Story: Coven(2013-2014). Her film appearances include Witness (1985), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), State and Main(2000) and Parker (2013).

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