LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010- Page 2
LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#25re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:20pmI'll wait till it comes out on audio book. You know Patti YELLING it at you.
#26re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:23pmWell, I guess this would be a good reason to finally learn how to read.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#27re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:34pmI cannot wait to read this.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#28re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:40pmthere should be a midnight release party.
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
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#29re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:47pm
It will sell about 10 copies.
She's had a mixed carreer but I do not want to read about how she bosses people around.
All the best to her.
#30re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:49pmSO gonna read this
"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch
#31re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:49pmLuPone has a huge cult following who will eat this book up.
masterthes
Stand-by Joined: 11/7/04
#32re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:52pmI'd be interested in reading her thought processes for dumping Les Mis for Anything Goes
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#33re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:59pmWell, she has said in an interview that the reasoning behind her leaving Miss Saigon was because she apparently knew that all subsequent productions would be a "copy" of the London production. That, and all she wanted was the experience to work with the RSC in London. She DID enjoy doing the show.
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#34re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 11:01pmPatti was such a good Kim, though, Mattbrain.
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
#35re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 11:03pmThis is going to be THE Broadway book! Look at all the people she's known worked with- Hal, Mandy, Cameron Macintosh, Lloyd Webber, Sondheim, Laurents, David Mammet, John Doyle, not to mention John Housman, Kevin Kline, all of her teachers and colleuges from Julliard. This list goes on and on! And all the stories- her training, the difficulties of Evita, Les Miserables in London, the LCT Anything Goes, the trials and tribulations of Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd in concert and on Broadway and her latest triumph, Gypsy. I can't wait! It's going to be one helluva book!
#36re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 11:07pm
is it wrong that I'm more excited to read about her relationship with Kevin Kline than...most other things in the book?
also, I actually had a serious response to the Les Mis question. she said that she thought the American production would be a copy of the RSC production, yes, but I think I read fairly recently that she had also just broken up with a boyfriend and that informed Fantine and she didn't want to keep up with that on Broadway. or something similar.
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
#37re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/17/08 at 11:16pmThere should be a midnight release party in the city reminiscent of the Harry Potter parties.
A Director
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/07
#38re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 12:26am
There should be a midnight release party in the city reminiscent of the Harry Potter parties.
How cute! I can see it now, Patti fans will come dressed as their favorite role Ms LuPone has played and drag queens come dressed as Patti. There will be prizes for the Best Dressed. Then Ms LuPone will appear in a blaze of light. In an instant, people will fall to the ground screaming, "We're Not Worthy!" Ms LuPone will be heard to say, "I know." No one will dare stand because people know that no one's head is allowed be higher than Ms. LuPone's. To make the event more special, the plan will be to play the cast recording of LUPONEGYPSY (if it come out by 2010). A new store clerk will be so nervous that instead of playing LUPONEGYPSY, he will play the 1959 GYPSY cast recording. He will quickly realize his mistake and remove the offending CD and replace it with what he assumes is the right one. Instead, it will be Ms. Peters' GYPSY recording. At the same time, in another part of the store, someone, who looks like ALW will start playing Ms. Close's Sunset Blvd. CD. There will be a rumble, a flash of light and Ms LuPone will disappear in a cloud of smoke.
Of course, her fans will be in shock and will go into mourning, never to be seen again. For the rest of us, life will go on!
LadyRosecoe
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/07
#39re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 12:35amYes because fans of Patti and those who don't enjoy her are two different species of people. How ever could life go on if they were to actually co-exist?!
#40re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 6:40amA Director, you really need to find a new hobby.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#41re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 7:22amMattbrain: You have your shows wrong. Miss LuPone was in Les Miz in London, not "Miss Saigon". from RC in Austin, Texas
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#42re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 7:45am
A Director, you really need to find a new hobby.
And a new career while you're at it.
#43re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 7:48am
Is the book gonna be called "Memoir of LuPoneisha"
:)
#44re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 9:52am
You know--A Director is right. LuPone is a talentless piece of baggage, and those who like her are fools. I hadn't thought about it, really, but he's made his case so clearly, I'm convinced.
A Director, thanks. No need to ever click on threads labeled "Patti" or "LuPone"; they'll be about Labelle and Robert.
Thanks again.
No, really. Thanks.
jaso937
Stand-by Joined: 5/20/07
#45re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 9:54am"Memoir of Luponeisha" is quite catchy actually. I'm totes going to get this the DAY half of it is leaked to the internet but a crazed fan and then the other half when its released a week later!
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#46re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:07amOughta be a gas!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#47re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 6:07pm
is it wrong that I'm more excited to read about her relationship with Kevin Kline than...most other things in the book?
Ha...you're not alone. 
I also really, really want her to talk about her upbringing, as well.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#48re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 6:27pm
I also really, really want her to talk about her upbringing, as well.
I agree!
I'm actually really excited for just about everything she's going to write about, because I am...basically a creeper.
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
#49re: LuPone's Memoir to be released in 2010
Posted: 6/18/08 at 6:36pm
A Director-
It's really so sad. Please crawl away.
Reginald Tresilian-
I'm so glad you're here! Your posts are always appropriate and equally entertaining.
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