LuPone and Webber "Bury the Hatchet"- Page 3
LuPone and Webber "Bury the Hatchet"
#50LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 10:43am
Liking her style or voice is indeed taste, but she does act through song wonderfully, even though her sound might be unpleasant to you.
#51LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 10:47am
No need to listen to either Close or Patti with the haunting quality of Buckley's vocals 
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"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#52LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 11:09am
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Gensho
Stand-by Joined: 12/8/05
#53LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 11:32amDistinctive Baritone clearly does not like Patti LuPone. Which is fine. But don’t pretend to like her work, though. That just makes your opinions seem hallow. You even make a statement that her career boiled down to luck. Meaning not talent, but luck. I take major issue with that. She is an incredibly talented work horse. You may find her voice shrill and nasal, but many more people find her voice powerful and riveting. I love the fact that Patti had to push her voice higher on the Evita cast recording. It makes it much more exciting and riveting. Anyway, don’t say you like her, when you clearly don’t.
Theatre Fan3
Leading Actor Joined: 1/27/15
#54LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 12:51pm
Take a listen and judge for yourself ....
PATTI LUPONE: As If We Never Said Goodbye
Elaine Paige - As If We Never Said Goodbye - Official Music Video
Sunset Blvd. 1995 Tony Awards. "As If We Never Said Goodbye" - Glenn Close
As If We Never Said Goodbye {Sunset Blvd ~ London, 1996} - Petula Clark
As If We Never Said Goodbye {Sunset Blvd ~ Broadway, 1996) - Betty Buckley
Diahann Carroll- As If We Never Said Goodbye
Ria Jones - As If We Never Said Goodbye (UK Tour 2017)
#55LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 1:32pm
Gensho said: "Distinctive Baritone clearly does not like Patti LuPone. Which is fine. But don’t pretend to like her work, though. That just makes your opinions seem hallow. You even make a statement that her career boiled down to luck. Meaning not talent, but luck. I take major issue with that. She is an incredibly talented work horse. You may find her voice shrill and nasal, but many more people find her voice powerful and riveting. I love the fact that Patti had to push her voice higher on the Evita cast recording. It makes it much more exciting and riveting. Anyway, don’t say you like her, when you clearly don’t. "
Chill out. It’s not like I dissed your mom. I liked her as Evita (just not her repeated whining about it), I liked her as Reno Sweeney. I liked her as Mrs. Lovett. I liked her as Mama Rose. I didn’t like her as Norma Desmond. It’s possible to not like everything an actor does. I also understand that Broadway is a business, and whether you preferred LuPone or Close in Sunset, ALW inarguably made the right business decision in a very tough situation.
#56LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 2:39pm
Personally think Elaine Paige sings it best if we're just talking about pure voice.
Withonelook2
Chorus Member Joined: 7/20/17
#57LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 3:41pmI have listened to all the leading ladies who have played Norma in London & on Broadway. IMO Betty Buckley has more emotion & soul than anybody else. I am so sorry she was out the night I went to see her on Broadway although I did get to hear her sing several of the songs at a concert in New Orleans.
#58LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 4:48pm
The best for me will always be the incomparable Debra Byrne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJsb8HNsjp8
#59LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 8:41pm
Back to the truce between LuPone and Webber...
I wonder if it has anything to do with the 'warning' Webber's lawyers directed to her a few months ago (November?) when she called him (once again) an alcoholic, unstable, etc. I wonder if that had any part - good or bad - with their truce?
As far as the best vocals on the two show-stoppers from SB, my unbiased vote goes to Streisand, from her 'Back to Broadway' album in 1993.
#60LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 9:48pm
This whole thing makes me very happy.
I remember Patti saying that overtures were made to her agent about her taking over Evita from Elena Rogers on Broadway in 2013, but the money wasn't enough.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#61LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 10:28pm
Anyone know if Patti ever toured with Evita? (or just did Broadway?)
tomwsjr
Featured Actor Joined: 5/9/05
#62LuPone and Webber
Posted: 1/28/18 at 10:30pm
I believe she played a limited engagement in Australia, but never toured in Evita.
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