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September 25, 2019. Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice ’s Evita opened at the Broadway Theatre September 25, 1979....
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With Tony Awards for Evita and Gypsy, and five additional nominations for Broadway musicals, she is the very definition of a Broadway diva. “The word ‘diva‘ to me means doing something supernatural with something natural,” she has said. And: “Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in th...
The Long Island (New York) native was in the first graduating class of the famed Julliard School’s Drama Division in 1972. Upon graduation, she joined The Acting Company, a national touring repertory troupe founded that year by actor and producer John Houseman. She spent four years with the company, and (along with fellow graduates Kevin Kline and ...
LuPone's musicals are what brought critics and audiences to their feet, beginning with the comic folk tale The Robber Bridegroom (1975), for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. Her impassioned performance as Eva Peron in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit Evita(1979) catapulted her to stardom, and gave LuPone her signature standard, “Don’t C...
Everything was coming up roses for LuPone in 2008, as her second Tony Award came for a revival of Gypsy, playing Mama Rose, the ultimate stage mother. Off Broadway she made headlines in 2015, when she snatched a phone away from a woman who spent the entire first act of the comedy Shows for Days texting. (Irritated by an audience member who had been...
LuPone’s film roles, in movies including Witness (1985), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), and Mamet’s Heist (2001), have tended to be supporting. Television has given her wider range, notably the dramatic series Life Goes On(1989-1993), where she played a mom with three children, one with Down syndrome. Guest appearances have included Law & Order, Will &...
Two other revivals also yielded LuPone Tony nominations, Cole Porter’s Anything Goes (1987) and Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2005), for which she also played the tuba, something she had done in high school. She also received nominations for the original musicals Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010) ...
LuPone married Matthew Johnston in 1988. The two met while Johnston was a cameraman on set of the TV movie LBJ, in which LuPone starred as Lady Bird Johnson. The couple has a son, Joshua, born in 1990.
Patti LuPone: A Memoirwas published in 2010. It does not mince words about her professional ups and downs. “I have a very high standard,” she said. “I expect everyone around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.”
In 1979, LuPone starred in the original Broadway production of Evita, the musical based on the life of Eva Perón, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and directed by Harold Prince. [26] Although LuPone was hailed by critics, she has since said that her time in Evita was not an enjoyable one.
Feb 3, 2012 · Don't Cry For Me, Argentina {Evita ~ Final Broadway performance, 1981} - Patti LuPone. Patti's final performance in Evita. Here she is doing a highly emotional performance of...
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May 7, 2024 · Patti LuPone, American theater and film actress known for her powerful voice and grande dame persona. She won Tony Awards for her performances in Evita and Gypsy. Her other credits included the films Summer of Sam and State and Main. She had recurring roles on 30 Rock and Penny Dreadful.
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35th Tony Awards: June 8, 1981Evita 1979 Broadway " Buenos Aires " Patti LuPone
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Patti LuPone starred as Eva, with Mandy Patinkin as Che, Bob Gunton as Perón, Mark Syers as Magaldi, and Jane Ohringer as Perón's mistress. Harold Prince directed with choreography by Larry Fuller.
