GYPSY, PATTI & THE GAYS: HILARIOUS!

[TheatreGuy2]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:25pm

This is awesome:

http://www.queersighted.com/2007/08/01/lupones-closing-night-everythings-coming-up-gay/

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:30pm

Why is that awesome?

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:31pm

Grr i dont get the "all the gays love patti" thing

Personally i think shes a great talent with a lousy personality.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:36pm

I just don't get the point of commenting on the sexuality of an audience. Bizarre!

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:39pm

What's so funny? Gay people went to see Patti in Gypsy? Oh wow, that's HILARIOUS.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:42pm

HA HA! get it????
they're the gay...& theyre going to see the patti lupone!!!

get it????

[Testing1232]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:42pm

<< I just don't get the point of commenting on the sexuality of an audience. Bizarre! >>

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!! Thats all I have been reading about on the boards lately. Who cares????!!! Its theatre. Its entertainment. Its for everyone to enjoy, no?

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:43pm

Shut UPPPPP, Patti LuPone.

[Midoria]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:43pm

It would have been funnier if it had been a Kathy Griffin joke.

[Midoria]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:43pm

It would have been funnier if it had been a Kathy Griffin joke.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:45pm

Though I don't like her as a performer, I do love her as a personality. She's a hoot and a riot, but is a one-trick-pony. As a young teen I saw her on Broadway in EVITA and find that everything she's done since then sounds just like EVITA material, due to her performance. She plays ALL her characters the exact same way AND she sings EVERYTHING the exact same way.

If only she performed EVITA the way she 'recorded' it on the American Premiere Recording, then things could have looked differently for me. Yes...what you hear on the EVITA recording is not the way she sang/performed it on stage nightly.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:49pm

How did she sing it nightly, Brody?

[whatever2]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:56pm

yea, i have to admit: im not getting "hilarious" or "awesome" out of that, either.

in fact, i thought the bit from the daily news article was fairly homophobic -- "our spy" ... "i ran for the door?"

what is this -- 1956???

more sad than funny ...

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:00pm

Miss LuPone chose to 'scream' sing her way thru EVITA, which was annoying. I had listened to the American Premiere Recording endlessly prior to seeing the show on Broadway, and was totally thrown for a loop when I saw it 'live'. Mandy Patinkin and Bob Gunton were just as great as on the recording, but Patti...just one angry screaming bitch the entire performance.

On the recording she has the angry snarl but at least she 'sings' -- on stage, it was just screaming. There are tons of audio and video bootlegs that survive of her performance in EVITA to confirm all this.

[D2]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:03pm

"Nuanced performance?" Patti Lupone? Never thought I'd hear that stated in the same sentence.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:06pm

She bored me to death at the Walter Kerr in 'Patti LuPone On Broadway'1 my friend who sat thru it renamed it 'The Wailing Wall On Broadway' Im gay by the way!

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:06pm

IMO, her performance in Sweeney Todd was quite nuanced. But, that's not what this thread is about, so back on topic.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:07pm

This Sanford Marcus is a total idiot.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:08pm

Speaking of which, I think TheatreGuy2 is Sanford Marcus.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:25pm

"They either love me or they hate me." Patti LuPone (guest starring on "Will and Grace".) Obviously, there will always be people who don't like Miss Patti for one reason or another. But there are a good number of people... many who happen to be gay... who just adore her! Some people tend to get a bit touchy,pc or lose their sense of humor.. when gays and Miss Patti are mentioned in the same sentence. I hope she does "Gypsy" in London and then goes back to NYC. I'll be there if and when she does on the Great White Way.
from RC in Austin, Texas... T.O.P.L.F.

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:27pm

There were so many hot gays at the performances I saw.

I don't understand why there have been so many articles about the gays representin,' but I did love it.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:29pm

LOL LOL 'HOT GAYS' Love it LOL
I think there are many 'hot gays' at every show i see on a weekly basis.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:33pm

i love her & im gay but i dont love BECAUSE im gay.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:35pm

Apparently you got on the wrong grain, n69n. Get on the train with those of us who love her BECAUSE we are big nelly queens.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 1:37pm

wait...what if im gay because i love Patti??????