Patti LuPone on Social Media: "Some People Think I'm a Dinosaur"

Broadway legend Patti LuPone is currently back on stage in LA Opera's The Ghosts of Versailles, by composer John Corigliano and librettist William C. Hoffman. The opera gets its long awaited west coast premiere in a new production directed by 2014 Tony Award winner Darko Tresnjak, running through March 1.

LuPone recently chatted with the Advocate about the production and her carrer so far. She commented: "Some people think I'm a dinosaur, but I'm not on any social media. I believe in my life being private, except when I'm on stage. I don't have the energy to tell everyone what I just had for breakfast."

She continued: "My biggest pet peeve is the lack of respect for the craft of acting. I'm sick of reality TV, which really degrades the art of acting. It's all become so cheap. The standard today is so low."

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A two-time Tony Award winner for her performances as Rose in the 2008 revival of Gypsy and as Eva Peron in Evita, her most recent NY stage performances include Anna 1 in The Seven Deadly Sins with the NY City Ballet, Joanne in Company with theNew York Philharmonic, and the Broadway productions of David Mamet's The Anarchist, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, and John Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations). She is currently appearing in the Los Angeles Opera production of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles and will be seen in the upcoming season of the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful." Additional credits include Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics' Circle Award nominations), and her one-woman show Matters of the Heart.

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