Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#1

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:09pm

http://www.broadway.com/buzz/182818/patti-lupone-christine-ebersole-are-starring-in-a-new-musical-together-as-iconic-fashion-rivals/

[Alessio2]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#2

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:13pm

This sounds beyond amazing!! I know this is very premature but I really hope it comes to Broadway. Never seen LuPone on stage!

[Jordan Catalano]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#3

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:13pm

I'm glad this is FINALLY happening. I'm sad that donna Murphy isn't doing it anymore but I'm always happy to see Ebersole on stage. 

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#4

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:19pm

Very disappointed that Murphy didn't do it. But Ebersole is a great performer. It'll be great to see them together on stage.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[nasty_khakis]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#5

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:25pm

SOMEBODY get a documentary crew to document this backstage!!

[Cupid Boy2]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#6

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:35pm

I'm SO excited. There's no way I'm not going to Chicago to see this. LuPone and Ebersole together is too good to pass up.

[little_sally]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#7

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:38pm

This sounds fantastic. I hope it makes it to NYC.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[tazber]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#8

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:43pm

With a new Frankel and Korie score to boot!

 

To say this excites me is a major understatement.

 

 

....but the world goes 'round

[PianoMann]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#9

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:55pm

I'm very excited to hear about the creative team and onstage talent attached! I'm also glad it's getting a proper out of town tryout so it can (conceivably) come to New York in the best shape possible.

[binau]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#10

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:31pm

This sounds great!!

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[gleek4114]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#11

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:36pm

Oh my gosh I'm absolutely making a trip to Chicago to see this. I never pass up a chance to see either one when it's practical for me (i.e. I live in the mid-west). Plus, I kinda want to have a bi-polar theatre weekend and pair this with The SpongeBob Musical just because I was already curious and the runs overlap.

[Mr. Nowack]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#12

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:42pm

This is one of the most intriguing projects to me in recent memory!

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[ChiTheaterFan]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#13

Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:12pm

Just got my subscriber email announcing this. I am sooooo excited. I have never seen either LuPone or Ebersole on stage!!

[quizking101]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#14

Posted: 11/12/15 at 8:38pm

This sounds simultaneously fantastic and campy (in the vein of COCO) and I hope it comes to Broadway.

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[binau]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#15

Posted: 11/12/15 at 8:50pm

I said a few years ago that they should have cast Bernadette and Patti. With those two names surely it'll be an easier road to Broadway, and what a hilarious novelty it would be.

Still, everything about this show is so exciting: director, cast, book writer, composer/lyricist, content. 

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[FindingNamo]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#16

Posted: 11/12/15 at 9:01pm

I have never seen such pandering.  I hope to god I get a chance to see it.

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[promisespromises2]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#17

Posted: 11/12/15 at 9:04pm

Patti. <3

[pc1145N2]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#18

Posted: 11/12/15 at 11:18pm

I will be buying tickets the second they go on sale! This is the best news I've had in quite a while!

[jimmycurry01]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#19

Posted: 11/13/15 at 12:44am

I will be there. I will see this.

[lovebwy]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#20

Posted: 11/13/15 at 1:47pm

Elephant in the room: will these two ladies be able to get along? I believe they both have, shall we say, difficult reputations.

[Kad]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#21

Posted: 11/13/15 at 1:49pm

Remarkably, I think LuPone is the more reasonable of the two.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[lovebwy]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#22

Posted: 11/13/15 at 2:00pm

Oy vey. I guess if La LuPone could get alone with Debra Winger, maybe she's mellowed.

[givesmevoice]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#23

Posted: 11/13/15 at 2:59pm

Kad said: "Remarkably, I think LuPone is the more reasonable of the two. "

They're also two very different flavors of alleged crazy. If they did make a documentary, as nasty_khakis suggested, I imagine a lot of shots of LuPone staring straight into the camera a la The Office and shows of that ilk. 

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

[best12bars]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#24

Posted: 11/13/15 at 3:05pm

Can't wait! They should set up competing Rubinstein and Arden vendor "boutiques" in the lobby.

 

And the first thing that came to mind was this could be the "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" of backstage musicals ... onstage and off.

 

Sign me up!

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[daisybeetle]

Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!#25

Posted: 11/13/15 at 10:21pm

Got tickets for July. I feel lucky.