Patti LuPone Memoir
Patti LuPone Memoir
#1Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 9:17pmIs it worth reading?
#2Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 9:25pmIt's bitchy and amusing, I guess. I think it could have been better written.
#3Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 9:27pm
It's a memoir, so hearing La LuPone's thoughts from her own head is worth it alone...It also helped rekindle my hatred for Andrew Lloyd Webber.
A resounding yes for me!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 9:30pmI'm waiting for the paperback and the bonus Women on the Verge chapter.
#5Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 9:33pmI'll admit the Sunset Boulevard chapters were interesting, but I'd like to hear Hal Prince's side of the Evita tales LuPone tells. I wouldn't dare ask him myself, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to hear.
#6Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 9:47pmWhy would you expect Hal Prince's side of the story to be included in LuPone's bio? If he has an interest in re-telling the events as he perceived them, he can write his own memoirs (and I'd buy them, because the man has had a remarkable career).
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#7Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 9:48pmSince I'm mentioned in it, yes.
#8Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 10:15pm
READ IT!
If you want a juicy, over the top, diva-licious inside view on some of the biggest Broadway hits (and flops), read it. Even though Patti has had her own rap in the theatre world, I really felt for her in the two chapters devoted to "Sunset Boulevard".
ndrwmls10
Swing Joined: 12/16/10
#9Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 10:49pmI loved the book. I would personally get the audiobook. She's a remarkable woman.
#10Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 10:59pmIf you have to ask in the first place I wouldn't bother. I read it and formed my own opinions, and I didn't need other people to tell me what I should think about it first.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#11Patti LuPone Memoir
Posted: 12/28/10 at 11:18pmIf you have Netflix, get "The Time of Your Life" before reading it. All the actors in this show were Julliard students with Patti and they all went on to form The Acting Company after graduation. She has two or three chapters based on those years and it helps to put faces to the names. It's interesting how some of them went on to be famous (Kevin Kline), some were working actors that never achieved fame and some were never heard from again.
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