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

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[nasty_khakis]

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

SOMEBODY get a documentary crew to document this backstage!!

[Cupid Boy2]

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]

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

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

[tazber]

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.

 

 

[PianoMann]

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]

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

This sounds great!!

[gleek4114]

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]

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

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

[ChiTheaterFan]

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]

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.

[binau]

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. 

[FindingNamo]

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

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

[promisespromises2]

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

Patti. <3

[pc1145N2]

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]

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

I will be there. I will see this.

[lovebwy]

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]

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

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

[lovebwy]

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]

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. 

[best12bars]

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!

[daisybeetle]

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

Got tickets for July. I feel lucky.