An Evening With Patti LuPone And Mandy Patinkin To Run 6/23-6/29 At The Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre

Broadway legends Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin open their critically acclaimed theatre concert, “An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin,” at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Performances for this one-week-only engagement continue through June 29.

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin are two of Broadway’s most venerated performers, having both won a Tony Award for their performances in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s groundbreaking Evita in 1980. Since then they have both starred in film, television, the concert stage and back to Broadway.  “An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin” brings them together again – at last.  “…this show of their own invention gives them plenty of opportunity to dazzle,” raves Lawson Taitte of The Dallas Morning News.  “Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim divide the honors as the show’s principal composers, though there were tunes by songwriters as diverse as Vernon Duke and Antonio Carlos Jobim.  But no melody was sung for its own sake.  Everything had a dramatic context, however momentary, and was acted full force.  You had to laugh.  You had to cry.  Mr. Patinkin promised he and Miss LuPone would be doing this show for the rest of their lives.  We can only hope so.”

The show is choreographed by fellow Broadway veteran and friend, Ann Reinking, who won a Best Choreography Tony Award for the revival of Chicago.  “An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin” is accompanied on piano by Mandy Patinkin’s longtime pianist, Paul Ford.

Tickets for “An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin” are available by calling (213) 628-2772 or online at www.CenterTheatreGroup.org. Tickets can also be obtained in person at the Center Theatre Group box office at the Music Center.  For groups, call (213) 972-7231.  For the deaf community, information and charge, call TDD (213) 680-4017.

Photo by Brigitte Lacombe