Patti LuPone to Perform at Lincoln Center's Spring Gala

Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, last seen on Broadway as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, will perform at the Rose Theater in the Time Warner Center (located at Broadway and 60th St.) on March 6th as part of Lincoln Center' Spring Gala.

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited CEO Samuel A. DiPiazza will also be presented by Lincoln Center Chairman Frank A. Bennack, Jr. with the Lincoln Center Laureate Award, to honor the former's" generous support of the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund and his longstanding commitment to the performing arts in New York," press notes state.

LuPone has been one of Broadway's foremost leading ladies since her star-making performance in 1979's Evita, for which she won a Tony Award.  She was also recently nominated for her turn in Sweeney Todd.  The star, who graduated from Julliard and was a member of John Houseman's famed Acting Company in the '70s. Broadway credits include Noises Off, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class, Anything Goes (Tony nomination), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Oliver!, Working, The Three Sisters, The Robber Bridegroom (Tony nomination) and The Beggar's Opera; she has also starred in Pal Joey and Can-Can at Encores! Additionally, she originated the role of Fantine in the London production of Les Miserables, starred as Norma Desmond in the 1993 West End production of Sunset Boulevard (her last appearance in a fully-staged musical), and played Genevieve in the original production of The Baker's Wife.

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Photo of Patti LuPone by Carlos Gustavo Monroy