Patti LuPone to Perform FAR AWAY PLACES at Davies Symphony Hall, 2/23
SAN FRANCISCO, January 20 - 2-time Tony and 2-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Patti LuPone brings her new concert Far Away Places to San Francisco on Monday, February 23 at Davies Symphony Hall. Joined by her five-piece band, LuPone's performance features renditions of songs by an eclectic list of songwriters including Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Willie Nelson, Kurt Weill, Edith Piaf, Frederick Hollander, and the Bee Gees. The original live show of Far Away Places opened the Manhattan music venue 54 Below in 2012, a live recording of which was released in 2013.
LuPone made her Davies Symphony Hall debut in 1996 for a pops presentation with the SF Symphony, and in 2001 she played the role of Mrs. Lovett in the Symphony's semi-staged production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She would later be nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards and win a Drama League Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre for the same role in John Doyle's production, which toured to San Francisco with American Conservatory Theater in 1997. This is LuPone's first appearance at Davies Symphony Hall since 2007.
Patti LuPone's most recent Broadway appearances include David Mamet's The Anarchist and the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for which she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Winner of the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Performance of the Season for her performance as Madame Rose in the most recent Broadway production of Gypsy, LuPone's other stage credits include her debut with the Los Angeles Opera in Weill-Brecht's Mahagonny, the world premiere of Jake Heggie's opera To Hell and Back with San Francisco's Baroque Philharmonia Orchestra, the title role in Marc Blitzstein's Regina, a musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes at the Kennedy Center, Fosca in a concert version of Passion, which was also broadcast on PBS' Live From Lincoln Center, a multi-city tour of her theatrical concert Matters of the Heart, the City Center Encores! production of Can-Can, the New York Philharmonic's productions of Candide and Sweeney Todd (NY Phil debut) and performances on Broadway in Michael Frayn's Noises Off, David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood, Terrence McNally's Master Class and in her own concert Patti LuPone On Broadway.
In London, LuPone won the Olivier Award for her performances as Fantine in the original production of Les Miserables and in the Acting Company production of The Cradle Will Rock. She was the first actress to play the role of Norma Desmond in the original London cast of Sunset Boulevard. Her film credits include: Union Square, directed by Nancy Savocca, Parker, directed by Taylor Hackford, City By The Sea, Heist and State and Main, both written and directed by David Mamet; Summer of Sam, Driving Miss Daisy, and Witness. Television credits include: Girls, American Horror Story: Coven, Glee, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, NBC's Will & Grace, the Emmy Award winning PBS broadcasts of Passion and Sweeney Todd, PBS Great Performances' Candide, Oz, the TNT film Monday Night Mayhem, Frasier (1998 Emmy nomination); Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU, An Evening with Patti LuPone (PBS) and ABC's Life Goes On.
LuPone's recordings include: Far Away Places, Patti LuPone at Les Mouches, the 2008 Broadway cast recording of Gypsy, The Lady With the Torch, Sweeney Todd (both the 2006 Broadway revival cast recording and 2000 live performance recording on NY Philharmonic's Special Editions Label), Matters of the Heart (cited as one of the best recordings of 1999 by both Time Out/NY and The Times of London), Pal Joey, Heatwave with John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; Sunset Boulevard, and Patti LuPone Live.She is the author of the New York Times best seller Patti LuPone: A Memoir.
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