Broadway Star Joined: 11/15/13
This sounds beyond amazing!! I know this is very premature but I really hope it comes to Broadway. Never seen LuPone on stage!
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.
Very disappointed that Murphy didn't do it. But Ebersole is a great performer. It'll be great to see them together on stage.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
SOMEBODY get a documentary crew to document this backstage!!
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.
This sounds fantastic. I hope it makes it to NYC.
With a new Frankel and Korie score to boot!
To say this excites me is a major understatement.
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.
This sounds great!!
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.
This is one of the most intriguing projects to me in recent memory!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
Just got my subscriber email announcing this. I am sooooo excited. I have never seen either LuPone or Ebersole on stage!!
This sounds simultaneously fantastic and campy (in the vein of COCO) and I hope it comes to Broadway.
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
I have never seen such pandering. I hope to god I get a chance to see it.
Patti. <3
I will be buying tickets the second they go on sale! This is the best news I've had in quite a while!
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
I will be there. I will see this.
Elephant in the room: will these two ladies be able to get along? I believe they both have, shall we say, difficult reputations.
Remarkably, I think LuPone is the more reasonable of the two.
Oy vey. I guess if La LuPone could get alone with Debra Winger, maybe she's mellowed.
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.
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!
Got tickets for July. I feel lucky.
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