London COMPANY Starring PATTI LuPONE!
Posted: 9/21/17 at 6:52pm
I'd guess a Broadway transfer is all but imminent!!
Posted: 9/21/17 at 8:34pm
Why does April need to be changed to a male? June...Andy... Hope Sondheim is doing lyric changes.
Posted: 9/21/17 at 8:50pm
Sold. She's going to nail it! I guess this means they won't be bringing War Paint to London?
Posted: 9/21/17 at 8:55pm
Saw her in the role when she originally did it- she was transcendent !
Posted: 9/21/17 at 8:59pm
She was a natural Joanne, interested to see how she’ll do in this full scale and unique production.
Posted: 9/21/17 at 9:07pm
RippedMan said: "Sold. She's going to nail it! I guess this means they won't be bringing War Paint to London?"
Were there plans to do it in London?
Posted: 9/21/17 at 10:13pm
I love Patti:
Patti: "War Paint is my last musical!"
Also Patti: "I'm playing Joanne in the London production of Company!"
Posted: 9/21/17 at 10:31pm
I believe she also said she might change her mind. Lol
Posted: 9/21/17 at 10:47pm
adamgreer said: "I love Patti:
Patti: "War Paint is my last musical!"
Also Patti: "I'm playing Joanne in the London production of Company!""
I'm cackling.
Posted: 9/21/17 at 11:00pm
Just thinking of ALL the changes that would be necessary to make this revision work... My head is spinning. Hope they pull it off...and it works.
Posted: 9/21/17 at 11:06pm
broadwayboy: Nope. But I'd think the thought was probably there at some point. It's not like it was a major hit here, though.
Posted: 9/21/17 at 11:07pm
adamgreer said: "I love Patti:
Patti: "War Paint is my last musical!"
Also Patti: "I'm playing Joanne in the London production of Company!""
Patti's said a lot of things over the years.
Posted: 9/22/17 at 12:28am
I admit, I'm not the world's biggest Patti LuPone fan, but she wasn't very good, in the Lincoln Center Company. I'm not sure why she'd be so great in this production.
Posted: 9/22/17 at 12:42am
Patti is a gifted actress who can completely reinvent her performance from production to production. It was astounding what she did with her Lovett from the Phillharmonic to Doyle’s revival. I assume the results will be the same here.
Posted: 9/22/17 at 12:52am
Her performance at Lincoln Center was Tony worthy. Her acting in the scene leading up to "Ladies Who Lunch" showed what a great dramatic actress she is and her "The Ladies Who Lunch" is the only version that didn't make me long for Stritch. But yes, she'll create a performance specific to this production and I'm sure she'll be stunning again.
Posted: 9/22/17 at 12:56am
Patti is indeed the only actress I can possibly think of that can play Joanne without making me yearn for Stritch.
In what way was her Lincoln Center performance anything less than stellar?
Posted: 9/22/17 at 1:12am
wolfwriter said: "I admit, I'm not the world's biggest Patti LuPone fan, but she wasn't very good,in the Lincoln Center Company. I'm not sure why she'd be so great in this production."
Take your commas and get outta here. She was absolutely thrilling.
Posted: 9/22/17 at 1:28am
Hoping for a cast recording of this. You'd think, since it's different in terms of character, we'd get one solely based on that. I'm also thrilled at the chance of this transferring and Patti winning her third Tony Award.
Posted: 9/22/17 at 2:48am
If they are making all these changes then why can't Barcelona be a lesbian moment; June/April is one of the best gags in the show and it is the year of same sex marriage after all.
Posted: 9/22/17 at 4:16am
Hope it fares better than On a Clear Day did.
Posted: 9/22/17 at 5:20am
Count me as another who was completely bowled over by her Joanne at Lincoln Center. Joanne is one of the most difficult roles in musical theatre. Patti made her funny, brainy, and manipulative in the most intriguing but loving ways imaginable, wisely and inventively avoiding the bitter and sour grandstanding in which so many other Joannes have smothered themselves. The bar scene was a master class in the art of subtext. Her choices in it were revelatory. Never before had that scene made so much sense or better set up the denoument and final curtain.
Unlike some, I'm not always unconditionally thrilled with Lupone's performances. But when she's at her very best, as she was in Company, there may well be no finer living actor.
Updated On: 9/22/17 at 05:20 AM
