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  Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Patti LuPone | PBS
In 1985, LuPone moved to London and appeared first in "The Cradle Will Rock." In the same year, she became the first American actress and singer to gain a principal role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the hit musical "Les Misérables." The names of both shows appeared on her 1985 Laurence Olivier Award.
LuPone made her stage debut, tap dancing, at the age of four.
In the late '80s and early '90s LuPone had a major role in the popular U.S. situation comedy LIFE GOES ON, and experienced some difficulty breaking free from her contract when the call came from Lloyd Webber.
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 Patti LuPone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patti LuPone (born April 21, 1949 in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress.
Patti's theatrical Mamet credits include The Woods (1977), All Men Are Whores (1977), The Blue Hour (1978) The Water Engine (1978), Edmund (1982), and The Old Neighborhood (1997) for which she recieved a Drama Desk Award Nomination.
LuPone was nominated for a Tony Award for this role.
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 Patti LuPone
LuPone was at ease and in good spirits as she maneuvered through a surprising array of show tunes with the big sound of a full symphony orchestra.
LuPone’s winning smile conveys warmth and sincerity as it is obvious that she loves performing and we love to hear her.
Patti LuPone proves that in order to be a true “diva of the stage,” one must travel outside of Broadway to perform.
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 The Seattle Times: Music & nightlife: Patti LuPone still a showstopper
Patti LuPone's elastic mezzo-soprano is in fine form.
Now in her mid-50s, LuPone is still a petite powerhouse who can glam it up in a fl evening dress — and sass it up with bawdy humor.
However, LuPone is such a great entertainer that she can make you feel, even from a distance, like she's singing straight into you.
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 Amazon.com: Patti LuPone Live!: Music: Patti LuPone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The second disc is a recap of LuPone's shows, and LuPone takes the self-congratulatory route, offering commentary on the shows and how she so cleverly picked them (only one of these mini-autobiographies is tracked separately for easy skipping), but it's clear she's entitled.
Patti LuPone is a legend in the same mold as Merman, Garland, and Streisand.
LuPone is known throughout the theatre world as a performer who unnecessarily strangles works and muffles complicated lyrics.
www.amazon.com /Patti-LuPone-Live/dp/B000003FJT   (1573 words)

  
 Great Performances . Dialogue . Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" in Concert . Patti LuPone | PBS
Patti LuPone co-stars in Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" playing the feisty Old Lady, a former Polish princess with multiple woes in her colorful past.
LuPone is familiar to television audiences for her work on FRASIER, REMEMBER WENN, LIFE GOES ON, and LAW and ORDER.
Patti LuPone: When I was a kid and listening to Broadway musicals, that's when I first discovered it.
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 Amazon.com: Heatwave: Patti LuPone Sings Irving Berlin: Music: Patti LuPone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Yet despite the fact Patti is on the cover of this album, she only takes about half of the total 60 minutes on this disc.
Lupone is missing is made up for by tenderness and elegance.
Patti LuPone signs Irving Berlin's songs as they were meant to be sung.
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 AroundCinci :: Broadway Across America presents Patti LuPone
Although primarily known for a voice that fills halls large and small, LuPone considers herself an “actor who sings.” She trained at Juilliard, graduating in the first class of that program’s drama division.
LuPone plans to sing a wide variety of tunes, including music from musical theatre greats Rodgers and Hammerstein, Ahrens and Flaherty, and Sondheim; as well as pop composers Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper and Brian Wilson.
LuPone has earned the title “Diva” and Cincinnati will love all the matters of her heart.
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 Patti LuPone livens up classics - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Patti LuPone's "Matters of the Heart" has arrived at just the right moment.
LuPone's performances are a selection of songs from the list printed in the program.
LuPone's live and lively version of "Matters of the Heart" will be engaging audiences at the Byham Theater through Feb. 20.
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 Patti LuPone on Broadway. - theater reviews National Review - Find Articles
When the curtain rises, Miss LuPone sings a few bars from the deep shadows, then emerges in a white blouse that resembles a frilly lampshade and fl velveteen pants that exaggerate her pear-shaped bottom beyond what is normally acceptable at Long Island bridge clubs.
This tragic event is regarded as a theatrical equivalent to the Kennedy assassination: a diva in her prime, in the most glorious role of her life, struck down before her greasepaint was dry.
Even when Miss LuPone does her hits, like "I Dreamed a Dream" (one of the most heart-rending songs of the stage) and "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," there is something cold and mannered at the center of that tremulous vibrato.
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 Biography for Patti LuPone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A fireball of talent and a musical force to be reckoned with, singer/actress Patti LuPone was born on April 21, 1949 on Long Island, New York of Italian heritage.
Trained in dance, her early days as a teen were spent as part of a 60s sibling group called "The Lupone Trio," which was comprised of Patti and older twin brothers William and Robert LuPone, the latter moving on to a daunting career of his own.
The concert stage has been a commanding venue for Patti over the years with a number of successful one-woman singing showcases such as "The Lady with the Torch," "Matters of the Heart" and "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda," winning an Outer Critics Circle Award for her "Patti Lupone on Broadway"; in 1995.
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 Follow Spot: Patti LuPone: Everybody's favorite diva has cabaret, concerts, and even opera on her full plate. Feature ...
Follow Spot: Patti LuPone: Everybody's favorite diva has cabaret, concerts, and even opera on her full plate.
LuPone has become something of a Stephen Sondheim specialist at Ravinia, starring in several of the master's shows there -- most recently in Passion, which she and co-stars Audra McDonald and Michael Cerveris will reprise in Lincoln Center American Songbook Series concerts on March 30 and April 1.
I recently phoned the indefatigable Miss LuPone in Cincinnati, where she was performing her one-woman show Matters of the Heart, for a chat about all this activity.
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 Patti LuPone - Moviefone
Julliard-educated singer/actress Patti LuPone was visiting Europe and England with a student theatre troupe when she was tapped to make her formal...
Tony Award winner Patti LuPone recently concluded a critically acclaimed run in John...
Patti LuPone - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Patti LuPone Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Patti LuPone | Biography
Miss LuPone made her debut with the New York Philharmonic in that same role in a concert version of the Stephen Sondheim musical, before reprising her performance with the San Francisco Symphony, at the Ravinia Festival and on the Emmy Award winning PBS “Great Performances” telecast.
While appearing in Sweeney Todd, Miss LuPone went into a recording studio to record her latest solo CD The Lady With The Torch for Ghostlight Records.
Miss LuPone created the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1994 Olivier nomination, Best Actress in A Musical), and recreated her Broadway performance of Maria Callas in the West End production of Master Class.
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 Patti LuPone News
Versatile, inimitable Patti LuPone, who burst on the scene as Broadway's 'Evita,' returns Friday through Sunday to Ravinia Festival to play Mama Rose in 'Gypsy' with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Life Goes On was a late eighties, early nineties family drama that attempted to break new ground by being the first television show to feature a young man with Down Syndrome as a cast member.The Thatcher family...
Along with Audra McDonald, LuPone has been the queen of the Ravinia Festival in the last five years, appearing in five concert...
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 Patti LuPone: Matters of the Heart
LuPone also exploits her gift for comedy on I Regret Everything, which spoofs all of those tragic divas who trade on their chaotic lives while claiming to regret rien, and on Dillie Keane's naughty Shattered Illusions.
Among a number of selections which focus on love for children and family is Rupert Holmes' My Son, on which a woman finds solace of her own while comforting her child, and Keane and Anderson's wistful examination of the changing relationship of a mother and daughter, Look Mummy, No Hands.
LuPone has never sounded better and the material includes something for everyone who enjoys fine melody and intelligent lyrics.
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 Patti LuPone Biography, Photos, News for Patti LuPone | TVGuide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 PlaybillArts: News: Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald to Star in Mahagonny at L.A. Opera
Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, who most recently shared the stage in the Ravinia Festival's production of Anyone Can Whistle, will reteam for a Los Angeles Opera production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
LuPone, who recently received rave reviews for her portrayal of Mrs.
LuPone also headlined two solo Broadway concerts, "Patti LuPone On Broadway" and "Matters of the Heart," and received glowing notices for her performance as Mrs.
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 Playbill News: Patti LuPone Will Be Mama Rose in Ravinia Gypsy
Tony Award winner Patti LuPone, who is currently starring in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, will head the cast of another Stephen Sondheim musical this summer at Chicago's Ravinia Festival.
LuPone will join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for three performances of the classic Sondheim-Jule Styne-Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy Aug. 11-13.
A Tony Award winner for her work in Evita, Patti LuPone also earned an Olivier Award for her performances in the West End productions of Lés Misérables and The Cradle Will Rock.
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 Patti LuPone: ‘Broadway Ain’t for Sissies’ - Arts Extra - Newsweek - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
For ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Patti LuPone got her tuba out of mothballs and took up knitting.
Meaty part: LuPone sinks her teeth into the role of Mrs.
4, 2005 - The incomparable Patti LuPone, who won a Tony for her performance as “Evita,” is back on Broadway playing Mrs.
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 Patti LuPone Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
LuPone then starred as the mother in the TV series, "Life Goes On" (ABC, 1989-93).
Fully expecting to appear in the New York production, she was summarily dismissed by producer Lloyd Webber in favor of Glenn Close who received rave notices for her over-the-top (bordering on camp) interpretation of the role of Norma Desmond.
After undergoing surgery to remove nodes on her vocal cords, she made a triumphant return to performing in a limited run concert version of "Pal Joey" in May 1995 and her own one-woman show "Patti LuPone on Broadway" in October 1995.
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 The Official Web Site of Patti LuPone
Hit the road with Patti for travel, adventure, musings, restaurant recommendations...
Get all the latest information on Patti's upcoming performances.
The new CD featuring 14 torch songs, based on the concert conceived and directed by Scott Wittman.
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 Patti LuPone, Q&A: Broadway.com Buzz
With a jet-fl bob, dangling jewelry, and torn fishnets worn beneath a tight miniskirt, Patti LuPone's Mrs.
And when LuPone sashays onstage playing the tuba, surrounded by nine other cast members doubling as the show's on-stage orchestra, the effect is electrifying.
"I haven't been this creative since I started to learn how to act." LuPone has spent the last few years brushing up on her Sondheim in concert versions of Passion (opposite her current Sweeney, Michael Cerveris), Sunday in the Park With George, A Little Night Music, Anyone Can Whistle and Sweeney Todd (with George Hearn).
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 Patti LuPone Video Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Gracing the stage on the 1988 "Tony Awards" Patti performs a
Lending her support, on behalf of the Aids Crisis, Patti talks briefly
Patti performs a stirring rendition of "Being Alive."
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 Patti Lupone Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Bob Hannah, Jo Ann Havrilla.
Starring Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde-Pierce, John Mahoney, Jane Leeves, Peri Gilpin, Patti LuPone.
Starring Kellie Martin, Patti LuPone, Jonathan Brandis, Devon Odessa, Tony Lucca, Jenna Elfman.
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 Patti LuPone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Patti LuPone on Rhapsody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Patti LuPone tickets - Patti LuPone information - Costa Mesa
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Patti LuPone has made a career of playing some of the greatest roles in musical theater history.
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 Patti LuPone
On 5-Nov-2004 LuPone was subjected to what she termed a "breast exam" by a security screener at Fort Lauderdale International Airport.
According to LuPone, the screener "was all over me with her hands."
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