Can someone explain Patti LuPone?- Page 6
Can someone explain Patti LuPone?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#125
Posted: 8/24/06 at 12:41pmShe's also not really famous. If anyone recognizes her it's from "Life Goes On."
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re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#126
Posted: 8/24/06 at 12:49pmNo, you're right, she's not really famous. I guess the majority of the general public is missing out. We've already established that fame doesn't really have anything to do with talent. Look at Paris Hilton.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#127
Posted: 8/24/06 at 12:50pmI was just thinking when I posted to this how much Paris and Patti have in common. At least on this board.
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re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#129
Posted: 8/24/06 at 12:52pm
Their names both begin with P!
Prince Charles as well!
That is SO freaky!
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#130
Posted: 8/24/06 at 12:55pmThey both have annoying voices, can't act, both "starred" lame television series, both think they are intelligent and dead “serious” about their craft (whatever that might be). Paris is A list though..Patti is barely E.
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#131
Posted: 8/24/06 at 12:58pm
And yet I'd still rather invite Patti to my birthday party. I'd get her to belt Happy Birthday to me, and then we could act out a scene from Yentl together.
Actually, that is such a good idea. So sending a letter to Patti to invite her to my 21st.
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re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#132
Posted: 8/24/06 at 1:09pmgosh, you think meryl streep cant act, you think patti cant sing, who DO you think is capable?
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#133
Posted: 8/24/06 at 1:09pm
Patti says: Don't be hatin' on me B*****S!
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#134
Posted: 8/24/06 at 2:17pm
hmm actresses? Sally Field, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cheno, Bjork, Lansbury, Oprah (see Beloved), Lisa Kudrow, Monroe, Hepburn, are some of my favs…
That pic is ****tieous btw.
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#135
Posted: 8/24/06 at 2:50pmbobbybubby, i'll explain sho bean. she has an amzing range of notes, and sounds in her voice, amazing riffs, and a stage presence exceeded by few in MUSICAL theatre today, especially with the expectations she had to live up to
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#136
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:39pm
AGHH!!!!!!
Whew! I thought she was going to eat me.
Dang this huge screen.
Featured Actor Joined: 3/8/06
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#137
Posted: 9/6/06 at 1:47pm
"Maybe not in the words Bobby used, but with the contemporary Broadway being as it is, her voice is NOT what people are used to, unfortunately. It reminds me of another singer I didn't like for a small period of time and then I hit myself on the head and was like "wait, THIS is real singing"[...]But then I see all of the people that love her, or love... Stephanie J. Block... or... *thinks* Carollee Carmello, maybe, and I feel a bit better. There's a place for pop and it shouldn't be Broadway, and it upsets me that the big people on Broadway are doing so much poppy stuff because they feel they need to appeal to the masses."
THANK YOU. Steph's is one of the names that popped to mind when you said this; I really do think that the people who like her tend to like Patti, and vice versa (I'm not saying there's a 1 to 1 correspondence, just that there are some similarities).
"Anyway, Patti LuPone...
You need to see some sort of video of Sweeney, honey, because you're really not getting it."
YESSS. Ditto PASSION (I DID like her Fosca) or EVITA. "A New Argentina" and "Rainbow High" in particular give me chills every time. She truly inhabits every role she plays.
That said, I think we're going to have to accept that pop musicals are here to stay, and that they represent a new genre. Good news? Maybe the pop musicals will serve as a "gateway" that leads to the hardcore stuff! And, honestly...it's not the people who love Idina who bother me; that's a matter of taste. It's the people who say "Idina is great and Stephanie sux" or "Bernadette rocks; Patti is hideous"...OR "Newbie, you're an idiot because you only know WICKED."
Can we all at least agree that it's still better than reality TV? 
Updated On: 9/6/06 at 01:47 PM
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#138
Posted: 9/6/06 at 2:17pm
I never used to like Patti until her turn in the recent revival of Sweeney. Now I can't get enough of this talented woman! Evita has rarely left my player at work in the past few weeks and I'm about to break out the OLC of Les Miz.
Patti LuPone, you are one tough broad. I think that's why I love you so much.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#139
Posted: 9/6/06 at 2:33pmWow, now she REALLY polarizes us, doesn't she?
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#140
Posted: 9/6/06 at 5:59pm
The first time I saw Patti perform was in Master Class and before she even spoke, she commanded the audience's attention. The woman has a presence unmatched by anyone I've ever seen onstage.
"No wonder television doesn’t want her."
Which has nothing to do with how well she performs on stage. Totally different world. Of course, it didn't stop Will and Grace from using her as a guest star.
"Like she studied in France or something."
Nope. That would be Julliard. Might want to check your hem. Your ignorance is showing.
"Paris is A list..."
Oh yes. And Anna Nicole Smith deserved an Emmy. Do you believe everything you see on MTV?
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#141
Posted: 9/6/06 at 7:19pm
the pizza store story is the best thing i've ever heard.
and not only is she a fabulous diva, she makes me even prouder to be italian.
Swing Joined: 9/1/06
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#142
Posted: 9/6/06 at 7:21pmIt sounds like Leslie Kritzer is gonna try to make sense of it all!
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re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#143
Posted: 9/6/06 at 7:37pm
Patti LuPone was Madonna before there was Madonna.
Short, fierce, italian, sexual, gifted, glamourous BOMBSHELL.
(who could really really sing)
Updated On: 9/6/06 at 07:37 PM
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#144
Posted: 9/6/06 at 7:38pmThe title of this thread makes me laugh.
re: Can someone explain Patti LuPone?#145
Posted: 9/6/06 at 7:48pm
NOBODY can EXPLAIN her . . . she is a unique and fascinating performer. Her live album is one of my favorites ever.
The range she's shown from Working to The Woods to Anything Goes to Evita to Gypsy, Passion, Sunday in the Park with George, Sunset Boulevard and Sweeney Todd is astonishing. Not that I thought every performance definitive, but they were all more than creditable. And until just now I hadn't really realized just how long I've been watching her and how many times I've been lucky enough and at the right place at the right time to have seen her live.
She managed a long run on television playing a credible and loving character.
She's also memorable in an Academy Award winning Best Picture and gave a great performance (or was it two?) as Lady Bird Johnson in that TV movie or mini-series or whatever it was.
Okay, I didn't care for the Will & Grace episode.
She's just got the stuff, pure and simple. Well, maybe not ever simple.
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