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Wow is all I can say.

Gosh, what a heartbreaker for the D'amboise family. And Terry's mother in law. A love match made in ballet heaven and their surviving spawn so successful in their own right. How did you all miss this in February. It was five column in the Times with a picture above the fold. Too busy bashing Charlotte then I guess, for her six performances a week Cassie. Now you know why. It was a long protracted illness. Golly, my thoughts and prayers are with the O'Neal family. Wait. They never married. For...

Umm, Charlotte's mother was ill with cancer the last six months of her run in Chorus Line and died in February of this year. This was her motivation for negotiating a six performance schedule. Her father was quite ill last year as well. You Cassie queens need to give the girl a break.

Remember when Time Magazine darkened O J's mug shot to make him look more sinister? Looks like this has been photoshopped to ameliorate this ridiculous stunt casting.

Mrs. Loesser is recovering from a stroke and has made great progress in her recovering. She is walking with a cane and had learned how to speak again. She truly is a treasure. She should write a book.

each theatergoer should have had the ticket in hand and the teacher should have had a map. The house manager was quite correct in his handling of the situation -- he had a group of kids inside without tickets and a dopey teacher still taking a head count. I wouldn't let my daughter go a a trip with a teacher like that!

What a fun, fun evening of horrific, hysterical theater. Lili Taylor is horribly miscast and Scott Elliot has certainly makes her look bad. The Greek chorus had trouble keeping straight faces the night I saw it because the audience was trying to keep it together, but gosh, was just so solemn. Once Taylor demonstrated that she knew all the Kama Sutra positions (riotous, in a green dress, to boot -- downstage, upstage, on a table), no one could take the evening seriously. Poor Mark Blum has to ...

http://www.pattilupone.net/ramblings59.html From a couple years ago: ""Oh, I'm sorry if I'm a pain in the ass, and, Oh, I don't want to bother you, or, I hope this isn't too much trouble." Take the trouble. I told the guy in the post pffice he was rude. I don't care what he thinks of me. Is that why we don't get involved? Because we're afraid of what people will think of us? Ay, yay, yay. "Shut up Patti LuPone." "I'm gonna be a better citizen in this world. Not just in this country, but on th...

If you want some one on one with this fantastic lady, here is an opportunity you won't want to miss. Its a benefit for the Monmouth Civic Chorus and a short ride out of Manhattan. What a perfect way to spent an afternoon. She's a great teacher, so I'm very excited. https://www.monmouthcivicchorus.org/orders/masterclass.html

She was star because in additional to being enormously likable and having charisma, she was the girl next door made good. She also was incredibly generous and kind -- I met her during "Do You Turn Somersaults?" when I was 14 and she spent 20 minutes talking to me inside the stage door. She knew what being star was -- there are many people with similar stories of her innate kindness to her fans. As far as the voice: look at some of her Hollywood work on Youtube. Not sexy, but she could make yo...

Particularly sad is the very nice interview in Playbill with Hoff concerning the hard work, love of theater and big break. Pity all Joey theatergoers will read about it this month before seeing the show. How can it not taint their experience?

It really appears to be an overlong SNL skit that wears very thin even if you are gay. But more offensive was the song THAT GODDAMNED DAY about 9/11 and the whole 9/11 angle. Nothing funny to those of us who lost loved ones. It was just plain gauche.

Who cares? wasn't he part of those selfish bastards to tacked on the "restoration" fee to the ticket prices? And the audacity of allowing a theater to be named after yourself? What about the Merman, the Verdon, the Fosse or the Bennett. Or even the Kushner for that matter. Geez! I'm all cut up and sympathies and prayers go out to the Schoenfeld family and the Shubert organization.

She's been in the US since the early 1940s that's why her "accent" is a mishmash. Can we just say she has a distinctive way of speaking?

Went to Barnes and Noble last night to pick up Julie Andrews new book and it was quite the mob scene. It was what was termed a "limited event" and you needed a yellow wristband to be seated. The Barnes and Noble employee doing the seating on the fourth floor said that Miss Andrews would not be speaking because of throat cancer and would only be signing a limited number of books because of arthritis. When I purchased the book, the clerk on the first floor told me the same thing. What gives?

Kazan DID Mama Rose in a summer tour of the Tyne Daly Broadway version which had many of that cast including the late Barbara Erwin. I saw this at the Westbury Music Fair and let me tell you it was one of the most disappointing evenings of theater I have ever experienced. Her voice had a huge wobble and she chewed the scenery like nobody's business. There was nothing subtle or charismatic or likable about her Rose -- it was all brass and schtick. No nuance and nothing to move the audience. Sh...

I first saw Marge Redmond, wife of Jack Weston and famously known as Sara Tucker of the Cool Whip commercials during Lansbury's vacation in September 1979. She was terrific and had great chemistry with Cariou. Loudon was out of control and Hearn had a hard time managing her mugging her way through the role. Note on the Worst Pies footage, she doesn't even relate to Todd -- she is merely doing her schtick. It was not a good part for her vocally or emotionally. She was by far the weakest of the...

Yes it was different time, and Hearn speaks quite frankly of his own discomfort with drag in the Herman documentary. He had it written into his contract that no promotion of the show via television would include his wearing Zsa Zsa's drag. What a difference the last twenty five years have made!

I can see why this is getting some attention: S. Epatha is terrific and this is a far cry from Van Buren, but she is undermined by the dated script and overdone production values. The set is totally incongruous with a midwestern town of the 1950s in that particular socio-economic class. The idea of alcoholism must have been riveting in 1950 as must have have the hopelessness of Lola's predicament. However, Kevin Anderson is very weak as the husband-- not the threatening menace Lancaster was i...

Nothing like Miss Cleo Laine. She turns eighty today or tomorrow. What a classy lady.