Here's hoping she and Seth bring this concert to New York! They seem to be having such fun, and Patti in particular seems like she's been a really amazinag sport about singing anything and everything Seth has asked her to. They are also reported to have said while in London that Seth is trying to put together an EVITA concert with Patti and Mandy Patinkin.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
The video is available now. It is possible this is the first time she has sung "With One Look" since 1994. However, I distinctly remember her singing "AIWNSG" when she did a concert here in Austin, Texas in 1996. The following year, she sang it again in a televised concert in Palm Desert, California in "An Evening With Patti LuPone". I hope she does it again here in the U.S. Lovely!
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
I mean, it's the norm for voices to deteriorate over time (Bernadette Peters, Elaine Paige, Chita Rivera, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minelli) so I don't find it THAT sad. I find it amazing how LuPone's voice has held up. Really remarkable..
"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
There's a difference between aging and deteriorating. I think Angela's voice for example has simply aged rather than deteriorated. And having seen Elaine Paige onstage recently, her voice definitely hasn't deteriorated. Again, just aged and changed.
I wonder why she changed her mind. In an interview she said she would never sing those songs again after her traumatic experience with the show. Dying to hear it though. Her final performance of "As if we never said goodbye" is on youtube and she gets a 5 minute standing ovation.
"There's a difference between aging and deteriorating. I think Angela's voice for example has simply aged rather than deteriorated. And having seen Elaine Paige onstage recently, her voice definitely hasn't deteriorated. Again, just aged and changed."
Exactly, Clap. There is common confusion about that. You always have to consider age when having that discussion.
"In an interview she said she would never sing those songs again after her traumatic experience with the show."
Patti is a big old drama queen. If they offered her a few million dollars to do the movie version, she would gripe all the way to the bank.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Patti is not a drama queen. She is a serious, sensitive artist and when she is disrespected she feels it deeply. Her treatment at the hands of Andrew Lloyd Webber was atrocious at every turn. She had good reason for retiring those songs, and we should be grateful that she has now agreed to sing them again for Seth... and us.
Are her and Andrew still not speaking to each other? Apparently during casting for the Phantom Movie Andrew thought Patti would be perfect for the part of Carlotta but then one of his associates said " But Patti doesn't talk to you" and Andrew said " Oh well there is that" Or something along those lines. I always get a kick out of reading that part in her book LOL.
I feel like calling her a drama queen in some ways marginalizes her very justified feeling over how she was treated, that's all.
And, everyone, spare me the old, tired, "Carole Demas in Baker's Wife" argument. It is not nearly a comparable situation. What happened to Patti was the highest profile firing in Broadway history, and at that point she'd been estabished as one of Broadway's brightest stars.
"I feel like calling her a drama queen in some ways marginalizes her very justified feeling over how she was treated, that's all."
I agree with this. The incident that happened During SB doesn't make Patti a Drama Queen. She had every right to react the way she did. What makes her a true star is that even after she got fired she still returned to finish her run like a professional.