LuPone sings Rainbow High on Merv Griffin

[morosco]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 7:31pm

LuPone on Merv Griffin

[Lil_little_edie942]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 7:37pm

Oh, Patti. You're fabulous.

But what in the hell are you wearing?!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 7:46pm

Yikes, I remember seeing this when it first aired.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 7:48pm

It was the 80s. You should have seen what the rest of us were wearing.

And, yes, she was THAT good.

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 8:06pm

Her hair.



I am speeckless.

[logan0215]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 8:21pm

Ugh, love it. Patti's post ass-kicking-rendition giggle gets me everytime.

Sidenote:

In Rainbow High she sings "So Lauren Bacall me, Anything Goes"

In Anything Goes she played Reno Sweeney

Then she was in Sweeney Todd

skurry.

[Barnaby151]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 8:39pm

Ugh I cannot stand her voice

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 9:02pm

Weren't there a lot of gay night clubs in between Anything Goes and Sweeney Todd?

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 9:03pm

I loved the hair. Strangely enough, I don't remember "Evita" in 1980.. the year I graduated from high school. I didn't know that site existed. In a bold move, I decided to check out the "Coco" segment. Katharine Hepburn was wonderful in her acting part... but her "attempt" at singing reminded me of how Donald Duck would sound like while wearing Chanel drag. The sound was so painful that I didn't finish the clip. from RC in Austin, Texas

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 9:15pm

It's bizarre how she sounds almost exactly the same but I almost didn't recognise her physically until she started doing the lip thing.

I forgot how much I love this song. She still terrifies me in every possible way, and if this were anyone else, I would've said, "What the HECK was that dreadful thing?" But somehow, I can't bring myself to dislike this performance...

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 10:23pm

I love that outfit in all its absurdity.

her interviews on Merv Griffin were so charming, though. she was such a little lamb in a lot of ways when she was younger.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 10:38pm

She was, is and always will be a force of nature, like a cyclone or a tornado, as few others are.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 10:48pm

Sometimes I'm amazed that anyone who was alive in the '80's still has any hair left, what with all the crap that we put in our hair to make it look like that...

Patti is, of course, fabulous

[jennyish]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:13pm

AUGHHH, I love her.

[dshnookie]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:31pm

God, I wasnt born until '86. I feel...young.

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:43pm

Feel old: 1990 over here.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 8:18am

Feel older... I'm a 1992 baby. I don't even belong on this website.

[Urban]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 8:36am

Wow. She pretty much eats every other Eva for breakfast, not to mention the Diet-Evita we saw in the movie.

Did she even breath during that performance? That was brilliant.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 8:46am

Amazing!!! Thank you for sharing

[mlsheehan]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 9:28am

My favorite Evita is Elaine Paige. Here she is much later doing Don't Cry for Me Argentina....
London, 2000

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 10:38am

I think there is another one (not sure if it was Merv or one of the others) where they interview her before she sings. I wish I could see that interview again because when I had first seen it, I had always wondered if she had done a little sniff-sniff before doing the interview.

The hair - does anyone think that's a wig? She was obviously wigged in Evita and would that much natural hair fit under a show wig?

Love how the fountain starts when she begins to sing. I wonder what that's all about.