LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil- Page 2

[Reginald Tresilian]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#25

Posted: 1/13/11 at 4:36pm

I think a lot of people were startled to hear how the song was actually written (no offense to Stritch).

[ljay889]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#26

Posted: 1/13/11 at 4:51pm

^ That could be it too. Considering Patti didn't speak-sing the song. I wonder how she will sing it as Joanne?

[bwayfan7000]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#27

Posted: 1/13/11 at 4:52pm

I really hope this is recorded, since I'd love to see it. And has there ever been a Joanne-Bobby combination that wasn't a little creepy?

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

[givesmevoice]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#28

Posted: 1/13/11 at 4:55pm

And has there ever been a Joanne-Bobby combination that wasn't a little creepy?

Barbara Walsh and Raul Esparza.


Ellen Krass, one of the producers, hinted at the possibility of it being recorded in this interview from November.

Interview w/ Ellen Krass

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

Updated On: 1/13/11 at 04:55 PM

[Jon]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#29

Posted: 1/13/11 at 4:58pm

But can anyone explain why Barbara Walsh sang the entire role a quarter tone flat (at least on the video)?

[xoffender45]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#30

Posted: 1/13/11 at 6:12pm

Really hate to be "that guy", but I figured asking this here would be better than starting a new thread:

I've never been to the Philharmonic but just bought two seats in the first tier box 4. Considering they're labeled as "VIP" I'm sure they're great, but has anyone actually sat in the boxes? How is the view?

[broadwaybabytn]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#31

Posted: 1/13/11 at 6:28pm

Dunno about Walsh. I loved her performance... Maybe she was trying to put her own spin on an iconic role...

[ljay889]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#32

Posted: 1/13/11 at 7:01pm

Well look what this thread started!

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/146649-Will-Patti-LuPone-Join-Neil-Patrick-Harris-for-New-York-Philharmonic-Company-Concerts

[givesmevoice]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#33

Posted: 1/13/11 at 7:55pm

There's an article on Broadway.com as well.

http://www.broadway.com/buzz/154908/patti-lupone-gets-ready-for-company-with-neil-patrick-harris/

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[ljay889]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#34

Posted: 1/14/11 at 2:03am

cant wait for the full cast announcement. Definitely hoping for Benanti as Amy.

[dramarama3]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#35

Posted: 1/14/11 at 6:05am

Of course you are.

Formerly 'dramarama2'

[darquegk]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#36

Posted: 1/14/11 at 10:12am

Since it's such a brief engagement, I must admit, I would love to see NPH's close friends and co-workers Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan as the couple he smokes pot with. Neither part has that much singing, and Segel loves to sing anyway.

[sabrelady]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#37

Posted: 1/14/11 at 10:33am

Alyson Hannigan HATES to sing and dance,in the Buffy musical episode, she asked them to give her as little as possible. Ca't see her agreeing to do it live.

[ljay889]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#38

Posted: 1/14/11 at 11:08am

Of course you are.

Excuse me??

[jewishboy]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#39

Posted: 1/14/11 at 2:45pm

I wonder who will sing my favorite, "Another Hundred People"? I vote for Jenny Powers.

[madbrian]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#40

Posted: 1/14/11 at 3:05pm

'I wonder who will sing my favorite, "Another Hundred People"?'


My choice would be Nicole Scherzinger.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[broadwaybabytn]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#41

Posted: 1/14/11 at 5:58pm

"I think a lot of people were startled to hear how the song was actually written (no offense to Stritch)."

Wasn't the song originally written for her???

[Reginald Tresilian]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#42

Posted: 1/14/11 at 11:07pm

I don't know, actually.

I just meant that Stritch didn't sing the song as written, necessarily.Of course, her version is legendary--and the original. But I don't think it's quite what's on paper.

[Joey.]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#43

Posted: 1/15/11 at 12:40am

My boyfriend bought tickets tonight for the Saturday matinee. SO EXCITED! :)

[ljay889]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#44

Posted: 1/15/11 at 1:09am

I just thought of Karen Olivo as Marta. I think she'd nail it.

*insert joke about her attendance here*
Updated On: 1/15/11 at 01:09 AM

[givesmevoice]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#45

Posted: 1/15/11 at 1:25am

Honestly, I think Olivo has a tendency to force her voice, and wouldn't sound that great on Another Hundred People.

I do think it's a great idea for Marta to be played by a woman of color, though. In so many words, she asks Robert if he knows any people of color (it's clear he doesn't). Since he has such a homogeneous, insular group of friends, I think it works for Marta to be a woman or color.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Overkill]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#46

Posted: 1/15/11 at 1:42am

Although not a Broadway actress or even a theatre singer, I think Kate Miccuci would be a GREAT Marta. YouTube her. :)

[Frank thebellhop]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#47

Posted: 1/15/11 at 2:33am

Still crossing my fingers for Sara Ramirez as Marta

[afaye11]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#48

Posted: 1/15/11 at 9:50am

Would LOVE to see Benanti as Amy, but,I can't help but think how cool it would be to see Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie as Paul and Amy.

Who would you guys like to see as Harry? I can't even come up with possibilities and it's killing me!

[AC126748]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#49

Posted: 1/15/11 at 10:26am

A fifty year old Amy? Even in a concert version, that wouldn't work.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body