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#1Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:16pm

Now get both your butts back on the boards ASAP!

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/139644-Benanti-LuPone-Pilot-Not-Picked-Up-By-CBS

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#2Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:18pm

LuPone for "Woman on the Verge..."? Hell, Benanti too!

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#2Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:23pm

Ugh!!! So bummed. I was really looking forward to the show!

"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"-Funny Girl

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#3Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:24pm

Even if it sucked?

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#4Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:24pm

I'm actually kind of glad the show wasn't picked up. I didn't want to lose them to the West Coast for that long!

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

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#5Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:28pm

LuPonites, unite!

We need Facebook pages created.
We need producer petitions.
We need people monitoring Paypal.
We need to get this pilot sold.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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#6Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:32pm

I heard this pilot took forever to film because Patti kept yelling at the camera crew: "Stop taking pictures!"

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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#7Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:34pm

The correct term is LuPonista, thankyouverymuch.

And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

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#8Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 3:56pm

Too bad. She's wanted a sitcom for years. But yes, I hope it means she'll be in VERGE.

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#9Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 4:03pm

Patti is not going to share the stage with Jessica Biel.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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#10Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 4:06pm

What was the show about?

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#11Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 4:17pm

Patti is not going to share the stage with Jessica Biel.

Maybe it'll be retitled "Women On the Verge of Pushing Jessica Biel Into the Orchestra Pit."

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

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#12Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 4:27pm

Hopefully the pilot will pop up somewhere at least.

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#13Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/18/10 at 6:30pm

Jordan, the premise of the show is in the linked playbill article. Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up

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#14Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 9:48am

Wasn't it the further adventures of Rose and Louise?

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#15Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 10:11am

Patti's role was a loud mouthed, overbearing mother. It was going to be a stretch for her as an actress.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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#16Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 10:16am

I don't think Patti LuPone would ever end up on a sitcom because she can't be the star in a sit-com, which she would want to be. She would need to be the star's mother or a neighbor, something along the lines of Valerie Cherish's "Aunt Sassy". I don't think she'd go for that. She has let herself go too much to ever star on network TV, other than maybe a Lifetime movie.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

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#17Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 10:23am

^ which is why she played the main character's mother in a pilot?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

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#18Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 10:27am

Maybe she can do a "Life Goes On" Reunion movie for Oxygen.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

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#19Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 10:29am

She yelled "who do you think you are?" to the director.

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#20Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 10:31am

She o-preciates that!

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

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#21Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 2:25pm

something along the lines of Valerie Cherish's "Aunt Sassy"

OMG, I love you for stating it like that - what a perfect picture that draws in my mind.

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#22Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 3:00pm

She has let herself go too much to ever star on network TV, other than maybe a Lifetime movie.

Didn't hurt Roseanne. Perhaps the show didn't get picked up because it wasn't any good.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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#23Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 3:38pm

Roseanne was the show, thus it worked. If they did a show called "Patti" based on her persona, it would work. However, casting Patti is another story. Men on TV get free passes all the time-they can be schlubs and get shows. Have you ever looked at the wives of all those TV slobs? They are gorgeous. Even older women on TV, like Jean Smart, have to be attractive unless they are a character actress. I don't think Patti views herself as a character actress. I think she feels she is very sexy-nothing wrong with that, but TV execs would beg to differ.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

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#24Benanti/LuPone Pilot Not Picked Up
Posted: 5/19/10 at 3:48pm

TV is a very nice, consistent paycheck.

As the run of GYPSY was ending, I recall her saying she'd like to be on a sitcom. She did a pilot, with her as the lead a couple years back, but it wasn't picked up.

She also said she isn't sure how she's gonna follow-up Rose as far as stage work - which is fair.

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