Patti LuPone Performs May 22 Solo Concert for BC/EFA

Tony and Olivier Award winning actress-singer Patti LuPone, currently starring to critical acclaim in the hit Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, will return to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 W 65 Street), to perform a special one-night only concert of her critically acclaimed one-woman show The Lady With The Torch on Monday, May 22 at 8 PM to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.

The concert will help celebrate the launch of her new CD The Lady With The Torch available April 25 on Ghostlight Records.

The Lady With The Torch, which is conceived and directed by Scott Wittman, with orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick and musical direction by Chris Fenwick will feature a 10-piece orchestra performing an eclectic collection of torch songs by such composers and lyricists as Arthur Schwartz, Jule Styne, Billy Barnes, Stan Kenton and June Christie, Johnny Mercer, George and Ira Gershwin, Willie Nelson, and Cole Porter. The concert is being performed in memory of Dick Gallagher, LuPone's longtime musical director.

Patti LuPone premiered The Lady With The Torch last year in a sold-out solo concert at Carnegie Hall, following engagements in New York at Feinstein's at the Regency, at the Cinegrill in Los Angeles and at the Plush Room in San Francisco.

LuPone last appeared on the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes and more recently in her own concert Matters of the Heart.

Tickets for The Lady With The Torch range from $50 to $500 and are available by calling Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at 212-840-0770 or online at www.BroadwayCares.org.

A Tony Award winner for her performance as Eva Peron in Evita, Patti LuPone's most recent New York stage appearances include Fosca in Stephen Sondheim's Passion for Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series, Candide for the New York Philharmonic, Can Can at City Center Encores!, Sweeney Todd in her debut with the New York Philharmonic and the Broadway productions of Michael Frayn's Noises Off!, David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood, Terrence McNally's Master Class, as well as her concerts Matters of the Heart at Lincoln Center Theater, Patti LuPone on Broadway and three sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall. Her recent TV appearances include a guest-starring role, as herself, on NBC's Will & Grace and, the Emmy Award-winning PBS telecasts of Passion and Sweeney Todd. Last year she starred in the title role in Marc Blitzstein's Regina at the Kennedy Center and next year will make her debut with the Los Angeles Opera in a new production of Weill's Mahagonny.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) is the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fund raising and grant making organization. BC/EFA is the on-going, committed response from the American theater community to an urgent worldwide health crisis. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of this community, BC/EFA raises funds for AIDS-related causes across the United States. Since it's founding in 1988, BC/EFA has raised over $100 million for critically needed services for people with AIDS, HIV, or HIV-related illnesses.

www.BroadwayCares.org