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New Out feature on Patti LuPone
#25New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 8/16/10 at 10:56pmWhy wouldn't they want Benanti? I loved LuPone, but Benanti was the most moving thing about that production.
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Posted: 8/16/10 at 11:13pmI don't know! There was an interview a few months ago where Arthur Laurents said that they only want him and Patti. I don't know if he literally meant London producers weren't interested in Laura and Boyd, or if London producers only want Laurents' production with Patti. I think it'd be ideal if Patti, Laura and Boyd could all go with the show to London.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#27New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 8/16/10 at 11:36pmIt seems like the kind of comment Laurents makes to intentionally exclude people or be hurtful--I'd bet the intention was to indicate that Laura and Boyd weren't wanted.
#28New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 8/17/10 at 12:09amI just assumed it was because Patti is the only 'star'.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#29New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 8/17/10 at 12:20amIt seems to me that it is just Patti's personality to air dirty laundry to anyone who will listen. I find it pretty tasteless of her to bring up Bernadette's name at all in reference to fighting for the part in Annie Get Your Gun. I'm sure Bernadette would have loved to have played Mrs. Lovett in the 2006 Sweeney revival but we don't hear her suggesting that Patti stole a part from her. Bernadette replaced Catherine Zeta-Jones for goodness sake and I'm sure that to Patti, to replace a movie star would be unthinkable.
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#30New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 8/17/10 at 12:24amI don't think she brings up things like Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy because she's got a problem with *Bernadette*. I think she's just honest about how tough the business is, especially when it comes to being passed over for parts she really would love to do.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
cliffarico
Featured Actor Joined: 10/5/03
#31New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 8/17/10 at 1:01am
All I want to know is, what's with all this drinking and driving??
Updated On: 8/17/10 at 01:01 AM
AnythingGoes2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/30/08
#32New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 8/17/10 at 7:34am
It was due in at The Shaftesbury Theatre in London to cover when Hairspray closed and Flashdance began... but it all fell apart due to timings on Patti's side and few fall outs.
David Ian Productions still hope to bring it in if the time when all can work together (Arthur/Patti/Producers) comes up, which they hope will happen at some point in 2011.
It will only be for a limited season.
#33New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 8/17/10 at 9:41am
"Typical Patti LuPone to make the reporter drive behind her in a separate car!"
They obviously both had their cars there; should he have left his behind? Should she have made him drive her back to the first bar?
Where is all this Bernadette animosity folks keep talking about? All I saw in the article was a mention that Bernadette had gotten the billing that, apparently, was the sticking point in Patti's playing the Witch.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#34New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/1/10 at 2:32pmI think Betty Buckley, Judy Kuhn, or, say, Lea Salonga have more to bitch about than LuPone as far as the opportunities they've received on Broadway go.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#35New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/1/10 at 3:06pm
As a fellow Sicilian, i can relate to Patti's 'festering'. lol
But to be fair, she's being interviewed for her upcoming memoir. Of course, she will be asked to reflect on certain things in her past - the good, the bad and the ugly. Although, the Kevin Kline thing was a little creepy. He's married, you're married. Let it go.
“Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions.
If you love something but can't explain why, that's enough.”
Updated On: 9/1/10 at 03:06 PM
#36New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/1/10 at 7:29pmI had no idea LuPone and Kline used to be a couple. That's both sexy and weird at the same time.
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Posted: 9/1/10 at 7:54pm
oh yeah... they were together for 7 or 8 years (and shared an apartment, but they were mostly traveling with The Acting Company...) ...!
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#38New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/1/10 at 8:01pm
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
JimCo
Chorus Member Joined: 1/2/09
#39New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/1/10 at 8:25pmHaving worked with Patti in ANYTHING GOES, and I really like her, but she is a very difficult person. She takes everything personally, and has no sense of humor about herself. She always refers to herself as a "star", and I have found with lots of the wonderful ladies that I have had the fortune to work with, she is the only one who ever referred to themselves in that way. She is brilliantly talented, but she has definitely caused some of the problems that has made her career difficult.
#40New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/1/10 at 8:48pm
I HATE those glasses she used to wear xD
She still wore them in 1985.
#41New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/1/10 at 9:24pm
Patti needs to find peace and some closure with some of her "misfortunes". Yes, she's had her share of professional disappointments...even outright public humiliations, like the SUNSET BOULEVARD debacle. I don't think she has. You would think that by writing her memoirs it would have helped her make peace with it all. Compared to many she's lived a charmed life.
But then she is human and people deal with things in very different ways. I'm not getting the Kevin Kline gripe though. That was a very long time ago.
I totally don't agree with having that reporter driving while under the influence, though. Not cool at all. They're both irresponsible in that respect. He really shouldn't have mentioned that in his article.
#42New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/2/10 at 1:21am
I'm kind of like Lupone in that if something truly awful happened to me, any mention of it or memory would send me "back" and thus ranting would ensue.
I don't think she *thinks* like a 'star.' Or thinks of herself that way. When she doesn't get a part, I think it's Lupone feeling disappointed that she didn't get the part and not Lupone, the DIVA, feeling outraged she didn't get what she wants, as people assume.
I don't think there's anything strange about still mentioning past hurtful experiences. I don't know of anyone who lets go of things without some closure. And it certainly seems those things she brings up time and time again are brought up because she doesn't feel they've been resolved. It's a better attitude than pretending they never happened and moving on via denial. You go Patti.
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
#43New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/2/10 at 8:27amChristmas came early today....I found a pre-released copy of Patti's Memoir in my office today!
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#44New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/2/10 at 10:45amI am about 70 pages into the book and while Patti does indeed go on and on about Kevin Kline, I do at least appreciate her honesty.
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Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#45New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/2/10 at 2:09pmWould you really not talk about a relationship of 8 years that didn't end well? I've had shorter relationships I still can't shut up about...
#46New Out feature on Patti LuPone
Posted: 9/2/10 at 2:18pm
I'm sorry you had a negative experience working with Patti in ANYTHING GOES. I worked with her on several projects in the mid to late '90's and found her much tougher on herself than she is on other people. She is generous, funny, and the utmost professional.
Wasn't everyone a little bit crazy in the '80's? I'd like to believe (and my experience tells me...) that she has changed a lot since those ANYTHING GOES days, when her "bad reputation" started...
