London COMPANY Starring PATTI LuPONE!

[brdwybound04]

Wow!!!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Ladies-Will-Be-Lunching-in-London-Patti-LuPone-Rosalie-Craig-to-Lead-COMPANY-in-the-West-End-20170921

[brdwybound04]

I'd guess a Broadway transfer is all but imminent!!

[CorkySt.Clair]

^ PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[Mildred Plotka]

Why does April need to be changed to a male? June...Andy...  Hope Sondheim is doing lyric changes. 

[RippedMan]

Sold. She's going to nail it! I guess this means they won't be bringing War Paint to London? 

[darreyl102]

Saw her in the role when she originally did it- she was transcendent ! 

[ljay889]

She was a natural Joanne, interested to see how she’ll do in this full scale and unique production.

[broadwayboy223]

RippedMan said: "Sold. She's going to nail it! I guess this means they won't be bringing War Paint to London?"

Were there plans to do it in London?

[adamgreer]

I love Patti: 

Patti: "War Paint is my last musical!"

Also Patti: "I'm playing Joanne in the London production of Company!"

[darreyl102]

I believe she also said she might change her mind. Lol

[BroadwayConcierge]

adamgreer said: "I love Patti:

Patti: "War Paint is my last musical!"

Also Patti: "I'm playing Joanne in the London production of Company!""

I'm cackling.

[MichelleCraig]

Just thinking of ALL the changes that would be necessary to make this revision work... My head is spinning. Hope they pull it off...and it works.

[RippedMan]

broadwayboy: Nope. But I'd think the thought was probably there at some point. It's not like it was a major hit here, though. 

[AC126748]

adamgreer said: "I love Patti:

Patti: "War Paint is my last musical!"

Also Patti: "I'm playing Joanne in the London production of Company!""

Patti's said a lot of things over the years. 

[wolfwriter]

I admit, I'm not the world's biggest Patti LuPone fan, but she wasn't very good, in the Lincoln Center Company. I'm not sure why she'd be so great in this production.

[ljay889]

Patti is a gifted actress who can completely reinvent her performance from production to production. It was astounding what she did with her Lovett from the Phillharmonic to Doyle’s revival. I assume the results will be the same here. 

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Her performance at Lincoln Center was Tony worthy. Her acting in the scene leading up to "Ladies Who Lunch" showed what a great dramatic actress she is and her "The Ladies Who Lunch" is the only version that didn't make me long for Stritch. But yes, she'll create a performance specific to this production and I'm sure she'll be stunning again.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Patti is indeed the only actress I can possibly think of that can play Joanne without making me yearn for Stritch.

In what way was her Lincoln Center performance anything less than stellar?

[TotallyEffed]

wolfwriter said: "I admit, I'm not the world's biggest Patti LuPone fan, but she wasn't very good,in the Lincoln Center Company. I'm not sure why she'd be so great in this production."

 

Take your commas and get outta here. She was absolutely thrilling.

[CindersGolightly]

Hoping for a cast recording of this. You'd think, since it's different in terms of character, we'd get one solely based on that. I'm also thrilled at the chance of this transferring and Patti winning her third Tony Award.

 

[SweetLips]

If they are making all these changes then why can't Barcelona be a lesbian moment; June/April is one of the best gags in the show and it is the year of same sex marriage after all.

[Public User]

Hope it fares better than On a Clear Day did.

[henrikegerman]

Count me as another who was completely bowled over by her Joanne at Lincoln Center.  Joanne is one of the most difficult roles in musical theatre. Patti made her funny, brainy, and manipulative in the most intriguing but loving ways imaginable, wisely and inventively avoiding the bitter and sour grandstanding  in which so many other Joannes have smothered themselves.  The bar scene was a master class in the art of subtext.  Her choices in it were revelatory.  Never before had that scene made so much sense or better set up the denoument and final curtain. 

Unlike some, I'm not  always unconditionally thrilled  with Lupone's performances. But when she's at her very best, as she was in Company, there may well be no finer living actor.

[lotiloti]

Just booked my ticket.

[FrontRowCenter2]

Guess I'm going to London!