#1
Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:35am
In defense of Patti LuPone's diction.
#2
Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:38am
Why is everything always so choppy?
Always
All the time!
His poor "Enter" key...
Always
All the time!
His poor "Enter" key...
#3
Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:43am
I'ff neffer. Unnnnnderstood howshe. Can be SO loud. And yet. SO unintelligible.
#4
Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:45am
I love Patti's diction.
"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
#5
Posted: 12/6/12 at 11:55am
I agree with Musto. There's nothing wrong with her diction. There hasn't been since 1988, almost 25 years ago, when it was slurred, for many reasons that haven't been valid since.
People who criticize her diction are actually just mindlessly repeating an old canard, which was made funny by the Forbidden Broadway parody.
But the criticisms aren't based on actual performances. They're just knee-jerk things to say.
People who criticize her diction are actually just mindlessly repeating an old canard, which was made funny by the Forbidden Broadway parody.
But the criticisms aren't based on actual performances. They're just knee-jerk things to say.
#6
Posted: 12/6/12 at 12:00pm
I posted on Musto's blog that Patti's diction, to me, is compelling and urgent and I think she is a great actress.
"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
#7
Posted: 12/6/12 at 12:00pm
Does Musto... get paid to write stuff like this?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#8
Posted: 12/6/12 at 12:03pm
Why complain about not understanding Patti LuPone when there are SO MANY unnecessary standing ovations being given out?
#9
Posted: 12/6/12 at 4:58pm
Defending the indefensable.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#11
Posted: 12/6/12 at 5:06pm
She's got the biggest diction on Broadway, bar none.
#12
Posted: 12/7/12 at 7:23pm
Patti is Patti in everything she does. You never forget that it's Patti Lupone. That is not to say that she is untalented. She isn't.
#13
Posted: 12/7/12 at 7:30pm
Patti is Patti in everything she does. You never forget that it's Patti Lupone.
That's just not true.
That's just not true.
Updated On: 12/7/12 at 07:30 PM
#14
Posted: 12/7/12 at 7:33pm
Agreed, PJ. In Les Miserables in London, she was Fantine -- not LuPone. In Evita, the same. Gypsy? Hmm. She was kinda LuPone.
#15
Posted: 12/7/12 at 9:27pm
I remember as a kid listening to Evita and looking a word up in the dictionary. There is a part where she says let's be friends "civil vised."
#16
Posted: 12/7/12 at 10:21pm
How long since the last thread regarding her diction? I love her diction and how she enunciates. :)
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#17
Posted: 12/7/12 at 11:22pm
I place the blame squarely on her wig.
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#18
Posted: 12/8/12 at 11:11am
I miss words, important words, when I see her live. That's just the truth. But, the truth is, I never got her. Except when she would belt every once in a while, I'd say to myself, she's got a decent voice. But then she would slur a note and bend a word so I couldn't understand it and I would forget that I ever liked her for a second.
Not a good actress, in my opinion. Just a bull on stage. Not my style, I'm afraid. But I see why a lot of my friends like her. The diva thing. Now, I just find her embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as Liza, but sometimes close.
Not a good actress, in my opinion. Just a bull on stage. Not my style, I'm afraid. But I see why a lot of my friends like her. The diva thing. Now, I just find her embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as Liza, but sometimes close.
#19
Posted: 12/8/12 at 2:33pm
Patti appeared a few times as a Lawyer on LAW AND ORDER and i understood all those lawyerly terms well enough...i love the way she speaks...it draws u in
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