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Tony Award-winning leading ladies Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald will once again share a stage for an August 26th concert at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago.

LuPone has been one of Broadway's foremost leading ladies since her star-making performance in 1979's Evita, for which she won a Tony Award. She was also recently nominated for her turn in Sweeney Todd. The star, who graduated from Julliard and was a member of John Houseman's famed Acting Company in the '70s. Broadway credits include Noises Off, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class, Anything Goes (Tony nomination), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Oliver!, Working, The Three Sisters, The Robber Bridegroom (Tony nomination) and The Beggar's Opera; she has also starred in Pal Joey and Can-Can at Encores! Additionally, she originated the role of Fantine in the London production of Les Miserables, starred as Norma Desmond in the 1993 West End production of Sunset Boulevard (her last appearance in a fully-staged musical), and played Genevieve in the original production of The Baker's Wife.

The Carlyle Hotel (James McBride, Managing Director) opens the Café Carlyle 2007 Winter/Spring season with RITA MORENO 'LITTLE TRIBUTES.'

Ghostlight Records will release six bonus tracks from Patti LuPone's CD 'The Lady with the Torch,' available beginning Tuesday, November 21 on iTunes and other digital media

On Saturday, December 9, La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego will host 'A Winter Fantasy,' a gala benefit featuring Tony Award-winning actress and singer Patti LuPone

Cipriani Wall Street was the site of The Acting Company's October 23 'Masquerade' as Angela Lansbury presented the John Houseman Award to Patti LuPone for her outstanding contributions to the theater

Zoe Caldwell, Roseanne Cash, Megan Dodds, John Doyle, Tom Fontana, Dana Ivey, Thomas Kean, Audra McDonald, Phyllis Newman, Alan Rickman, Laila Robins, David Schramm, Marian Seldes and Francesca Zambello will ateend the Acting Company's October 23rd Masquerade, in which Angela Lansbury will present an award to Patti LuPone

Angela Lansbury will toast fellow Lovett Patti LuPone, who will be presented with the John Houseman Award

Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, currently on Broadway as Sweeney Todd's Mrs. Lovett, will headline Jake Heggie's To Hell and Back at a number of California venues from November 2nd through November 5th

Two-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, currently on Broadway as Sweeney Todd's Mrs. Lovett, will headline Jake Heggie's To Hell and Back at the First United Methodist Church in California (both in San Francisco and Berkeley) from November 2nd through November 5th

Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, currently starring on Broadway as a tuba-playing Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, will join SIRIUS' Seth Rudetsky for this week's edition of 'Studio A Cabaret'

The National Dance Institute will honor Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris--both currently Tony-nominated for their work as Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett, respectively, in the Sweeney Todd revival--on July 19th at 6:30 PM at at the LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts Concert Hall (65th St. between Amsterdam and West End Avenues)

On July 19th, the National Dance Institute will honor Sweeney Todd stars Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris at their Event of the Year gala

Sweeney Todd star Patti LuPone will return to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on May 22nd for a benefit concert of 'The Lady with the Torch'

On May 19th, Patti LuPone will perform songs from 'Lady with the Torch' at Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble as well as sign copies of the CD

Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone will now appear on 'The Today Show' on April 26th, rather than the previously-announced date of April 25th

The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President) is proud to announce the recipients of its three annual specialty awards which will be presented at The 72nd Annual Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 5, 2006 (12 p.m.).

To celebrate the release of her latest CD 'The Sweetest of Nights,' Karen Mason will perform at Tower Records on February 1st

In February of 2007, a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, starring Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald and directed by John Doyle, will open

The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

Patti LuPone's latest solo CD, The Lady with the Torch, will be released by Ghostlight Records in April

Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald will star in the L.A. Opera's production of Weill and Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in 2007

Patti LuPone has been confirmed as Rose in the Ravinia Festival's production of Gypsy, which will run from August 11th through 13th in 2006

Karen Mason will bring her new cabaret show The Sweetest of Nights, based on her recent CD, to The Encore on October 27th; it will run through November 7th

The National Theatre of Great Britain's production of Alan Bennett's THE HISTORY BOYS, will open on Sunday, April 23, 2006 on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) with the National's acting company for a 20-week limited engagement.