Patti & Fanmail

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 9:50pm

How is Patti Lupone about responding to fanmail/ requests for playbills or backstage tours?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 9:52pm

.... there's a big difference between asking for a signed Playbill and asking for a backstage tour.

But you go ahead, just up and ask Patti LuPone for a backstage tour.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 9:57pm

If you email her general questions, she usually responds. Now that she's doing a show, you won't hear back for a while, but she usually returns emails.

I don't know about signed anything. And, a backstage tour request might be considered a bit...forward.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:32pm

My image is that if you'd ask Patti for a backstage tour, she'd blackjack you in an alley....but maybe that's just me.

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:36pm

It never hurts to ask... I got a backstage ACL tour... so you never know!

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:39pm

I give someone credit for having the guts to ask Patti for a backstage tour in an email.

[emo_geek]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:40pm

Ask her if you can come home with her too...

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:41pm

Why does everyone think asking for a backstage tour is sooooooo unheard of...? Patti is just an ordinary person. She's not like god or an angel or something. She's human like me and you and she can say yes or no... It's not that big of a deal people. And its not in an e-mail.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:43pm

Uh-huh!

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:46pm

Patti is AWESOME with responding to fanmail and email. She has always responded to my mail.

[nealb1]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:51pm

It would be incredibly intrusive and rude, to ask a total stranger......can I have a backstage tour? What makes you so special to think that you should have one? Or deserve one, for that matter?

It would be like me going up to you and saying, "Let me see your apartment." It's common sense.

Updated On: 3/12/08 at 10:51 PM

[emo_geek]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:51pm

Id just be be careful. She is one of those humans that say yes or no really...loud

[JKlock]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:56pm

If you are so desperate for a backstage tour why not write to the Stage Manager and ask. I know someone who at the time was studying the technical aspects of theater production and wrote to the Stage Manager of a show asking if he could see what it was like "behind the scenes" of a broadway show and it ended up working out nicely. If your desire to go backstage is for educational purpose, give it a shot with the SM but if you're just looking for a reason to walk around with Patti Lupone...don't.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:27pm

When I saw Sweeney, we must have been waiting for Patti for an hour and a half, and on a school night. So we decided to leave, but I wrote Patti a note and asked the people I was waiting with to give it to her if she ever came out. I asked if she could send me a signed picture, and gave her my address. Sure enough, within two weeks, I had a signed picture in the mail.

[Baiseur82]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 12:08am

Patti is GREAT about her fans, I would be scared to ask her for a backstage tour, but hey if you are cool with it, go for it! She was really amazing when I met her for the first time (after sweeney)

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 1:52am

Having never had the 'set' to contact her, what's her email anyways?

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:39am

Even I would NEVER dare to ask her for a backstage tour. I know my limitations. I think the original poster should be glad if he gets to see her backstage and poses for a picture in her dressing room. Even then, there are steps to take: First, you ask her. If she's okay with it, she tells you who to contact at the stage door. With that okay, you get on a visitor's list. After the perf, then you go to the stage door. There's someone with the show (I forget who) who has that prized visitor's list in her hand. You mention your name. Once she's verified your name is actually on the visitor's list, then you are ushered inside and asked to wait with the other people. I think the celebrities go first and then us. I remember waiting to see her after her performance in "Sweeney", I saw Tom Wopat and others seeing her as well. Once it was my turn, I went there with a guy who worked with Miss Patti in "Noises Off". When she saw me, she called me by my first name and said something funny: "Is this your "friend"?" ...the guy next to me. I had the impression she thought that that guy was my "special" friend. I chuckled at her little faux pas. I don't figure that Miss LuPone does backstage tours...unless you're a family member or a really good friend of hers. In any case, by the time her show ends, she's obviously exhausted, but has to get dressed in civilian clothes to greet her dressing room visitors. Once that happens, she still has to greet her adoring fans at the stage door. Yes, she does answer her fan email... with brief responses.
Here are a couple of emails I've received from her:
from my email (10-1-2006)
Dear Miss Patti: I'm just writing this little note to say "hi". I hope all is well in your little corner of the world. There is something else. I've started a new thread in the Broadway World.com theatre forum. The topic is: "Suggested Titles fora future Patti LuPone autobiography. I suggested a title: "They Either Love Me or Hate Me" . Under the chapter title : RUG (Really Useful Group)..the caption would be "Censored." When you do write an autobiography, any preliminary thoughts for a title? Inquiring minds want to know.. Sincerely, Roman in Austin, Texas... your official Patti LuPone FANatic in the Lone Star State P.S. I had a wonderful time seeing "A Chorus Line" at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco this past July. Any plans for your to see it on Broadway?
Her response (dated: 10-7-2006)
Hi Roman, I saw it on opening nite and was a bit disappointed. How about "My Grandmother Was A Bootlegger"? Catchy! Love, Patti

Email #2: my email to her from 3-17-2007. She responded back on 3-20-07.
Hello Miss Patti: Here are my questions I submitted to her website).
Question #1: Have you heard another singer's interpretation of one of your songs? (her response: Yes, I've heard other singers sing songs that I've sung.)
Question #2: What would you think of a male singer performing one of your songs, like "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" (I've heard John Barrowman singing "Being Alive" on a recording.)
(her response: "Being Alive" is written for a man.
Question #3: If you could be a tree, what kind of tree would you be? (With all due apologies to Barbara Walters)
her response: "A palm or a willow".
Question #4: Do you ever have the chance to browse through a theatre forum like Broadway World.com? her response: "No."

from RC in Austin, Texas

Updated On: 3/13/08 at 10:39 AM

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:49am

Patti seems like a very sweet lady!

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 11:14am

Patti's email is [e-mail]. I've emailed her a few times and she's usually very good about emailing back, but my friends and I joke about how she must try and write back the shortest answers possible.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 7:03pm

Patti's all about the economy of words.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 8:33pm

Does anyone know if Gypsy does signed playbill requests?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 8:36pm

I got a signed note from her years ago.

We got a backstage tour of The Producers but Stadlen was in it by than.