Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney

[MargoChanning]

Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#0

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:21pm

Kaye will be GREAT in this role, but the Playbill article confuses me. Lupone is on vacation for the week they mention in June, but doesn't do the Ravinia GYPSY until August:


"Broadway's Sweeney Todd will swap Tony Award winners (and current nominees) in June when Judy Kaye will assume the role of Mrs. Lovett for Patti LuPone while the latter actress stars in the Ravinia Festival's Gypsy.

Kaye will play Mrs. Lovett for eight performances June 20-25 opposite Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris in the title role and his fellow 2006 Tony nominee Manoel Felciano as Tobias Ragg.

Kaye — who earned a Tony Award nomination for her turn in this season's Souvenir — won her Tony for The Phantom of the Opera. Other credits include Mamma Mia, Ragtime and On The Twentieth Century. "



http://www.playbill.com/news/article/99774.html

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 5/18/06 at 06:21 PM

[Yankeefan007]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#1

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:23pm

I just posted the same date quandry on the other thread, with the exact same title.

[RentBoy86]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#2

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:23pm

You are on your game Margo. I was just about to post this. I'm sure she'll be great. I hope they have some sort of video preview with her, as I'd love to see how she works the role.

[ljay889]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#3

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:24pm

I'm very confused.

[Yankeefan007]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#4

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:25pm

Broadway.com clarifies:

"Tony Award winner Judy Kaye will be stepping into Sweeney Todd while Patti LuPone is on vacation next month. Kaye will play Mrs. Lovett from June 20 through June 25.
"I have to go and start learning the tuba and everything," Kaye told Broadway.com. "I'm going to try not to screw anybody else up! I've played Mrs. Lovett three times [in previous productions], so I'm not afraid of her at all. I love her desperately.""

[MargoChanning]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#5

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:29pm

So I take it if Kaye does well in June -- which I'm sure she will -- she'd probably be the main candidate to fill in for Lupone again in August (assuming Lupone signs her contract extension)?

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[somethingwicked]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#6

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:30pm

From the Broadway.com announcement that spoke to Kaye..

"After her June stint, Kaye is also expected to return to Sweeney Todd in August, presumably when LuPone is away at Chicago's Ravinia Festival doing Gypsy (which runs August 11 through August 13). "I do two weeks in August," Kaye said. "I don't know which weeks they are."

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 5/18/06 at 06:30 PM

[sweetestsiren]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#7

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:30pm

Oh, wow! It would be great to see her in this production.

[jonartdesigns]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#8

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:42pm

as great as kaye will be i sorta feel bad for the standby

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

[RentBoy86]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#9

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:47pm

On the other thread they said that the stand-by was a mess.

[GYPSY1527]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#10

Posted: 5/18/06 at 6:51pm

Well it figures that I'll be away in Italy when Judy first fills in, but I am not missing her in August!

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

[respeck]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#11

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:05pm

Hooray for Kaye! Oh, I rhymed.

[Unknown User]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#12

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:11pm

She'll be wonderful. I'll be there. I love that woman. How cool it would be if they both took home the Best Actress Tonys!

[FosseBoi]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#13

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:13pm

YAY! I have tickets for June 21 so I'll report back on how she is.

Does anyong know how good the seats are in the first row? Thanks!

"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread. ~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line

[EugLoven]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#14

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:15pm

HOT! Anyone seen her in the role in the other productions she said (above) she was in? Which were they, anyone know?

[Yankeefan007]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#15

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:17pm

I saw her in Souvenir and in Mamma Mia as Rosie. She deserves a Tony win this year. It was an absolutely astounding performance.
Updated On: 5/18/06 at 07:17 PM

[TheQuibbler]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#16

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:18pm

Front row seats are amazing.

[FosseBoi]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#17

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:22pm

YAY!!! Thanks so much, Quib!

"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread. ~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line

[GYPSY1527]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#18

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:24pm

Front row seats are the best in this show! The whole cast focuses on you(at least for me).

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

[best12bars]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#19

Posted: 5/18/06 at 7:46pm

I LOVE Judy Kaye! This is great news for her and for the show.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[dirty rotten guy]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#20

Posted: 5/18/06 at 8:00pm

That article title almost killed me. I have front row tickets for the 21st of July (my birthday), and I was afraid they were announcing Patti wasnt extending. This will be my thrid time, first this close, and I would be so sad if Patti wasnt there.

Anyway, I think Kaye is a fantastic choice. She looks PERFECT and I would love to see her spin on it. I may just have to try to see her.

"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"

[C is for Company]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#21

Posted: 5/18/06 at 8:04pm

I'm seeing it for my 5th time as a birthday present on 6/6/06. Front row seats 109 and 110. Originally they offered me the 20th. Now I am wondering if I should have taken them...... I'll go back in August

[best12bars]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#22

Posted: 5/18/06 at 8:06pm

What a fascinating calendar date for this show!

Should be extra "evil" that night.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[All_For_Laura]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#23

Posted: 5/18/06 at 8:11pm

I might have to see it a second time since Judy will be in it!! She is amazing!!!

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[C is for Company]

re: Judy Kaye to Fill In For Patti Lupone in Sweeney#24

Posted: 5/18/06 at 8:16pm

Hmm I don't know how freakier things could get on the devil's day. Perhaps real razors?