Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
#1Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 12:26pm
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/190817/patti-lupone-ben-platt-will-perform-on-the-2018-grammy-awards/ Patti LuPone will be part of a tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber's career. I detect a bit of irony in there. I'll watch it of course.
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#2Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 12:27pmWhat’s Ben’s relation to West Side Story? So odd.
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#3Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 1:11pm
^ There is no connection, he's just the "hot" Broadway name at the moment.
#4Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 1:14pm
This could just be the wording in the press release, but why does it sound like this “tribute to Broadway” is only highlighting the works of two composers, ALW and Leonard Bernstein?
What about Sondheim? Rodgers and Hammerstein? Kander and Ebb? Irving Berlin?
#5Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 1:25pm
I’m sorry what , LuPone Will slag of Webber when she gets the chance, but she will turn up to the opening of an envelope to sing his songs. While giving an interview on how much she hates him, gurl please just stop
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#6Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 1:34pmShe's such a drama queen, I love her.
#7Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 1:39pm
rosscoe(au) said: "I’m sorry what , LuPone Will slag of Webber when she gets the chance, but she will turn up to the opening of an envelope to sing his songs. While giving an interview on how much she hates him, gurl please just stop"
I thought this was odd as well. Why would she agree to sing an ALW song if she despises him so much?
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#8Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 1:55pmI would assume it’s her signature song, the song she’s already performed on the Grammys.
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#9Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 2:08pm
rosscoe(au) said: "I’m sorry what , LuPone Will slag of Webber when she gets the chance, but she will turn up to the opening of an envelope to sing his songs. While giving an interview on how much she hates him, gurl please just stop"
Why should her dislike of ALW as a person and as a composer mean she cannot sing her own signature song? That song became what it did not just because of the composition but because of what Patti did with it (I think hers is the definitive version, not Elaine's - most Grammy watching audiences would agree). I'm tired of us saying bs about women who speak their mind about their colleagues, but completely ignore same things said by male actors/directors/other artists.
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#10Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 2:50pm
Call_me_jorge said: "What’s Ben’s relation to West Side Story? So odd."
It's a Broadway show. He's a Broadway star.
#11Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 2:52pm
Valentina3 said: "Why should her dislike of ALW as a person and as a composer mean she cannot sing her own signature song?"
I don't think folks are suggesting that she "cannot" sing that song; it's just surprising that she'd want to because she never misses an opportunity to slam ALW as someone she wants nothing to do with ever again.
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
#12Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 3:04pm
Lot666 said: "it's just surprising that she'd want to because she never misses an opportunity to slam ALW as someone she wants nothing to do with ever again."
She's never stopped singing it before for that reason. Singing his song that she made famous doesn't mean she is interacting with him as a person.
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#13Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 3:18pm
haterobics said: "Call_me_jorge said: "What’s Ben’s relation to West Side Story? So odd."
It's a Broadway show. He's a Broadway star."
And isn't his new "pad" on the Upper West Side? There you have it.
#14Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 4:34pm
adamgreer said: "This could just be the wording in the press release, but why does it sound like this “tribute to Broadway” is only highlighting the works of two composers, ALW and Leonard Bernstein?
What about Sondheim? Rodgers and Hammerstein? Kander and Ebb? Irving Berlin?"
I assume Bernstein because there are a whole bunch of Bernstein centennial events happening around the country this year.
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
#15Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 5:12pm
Would love it if the Grammys folks said she had to sing "With One Look"
#16Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 5:18pm
GeorgeandDot said: "She's such a drama queen, I love her."
Literally. You know she’s been sitting in her home cackling waiting for this press release to drop. She knows exactly what she’s doing. Gosh, I love her.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#17Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 5:32pm
Will ALW be there?
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
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#18Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 8:32pmSorry to threadjack but has anyone heard if Patti has had her hip surgery and how she is doing?
#19Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 8:41pm
smidge said: "Sorry to threadjack but has anyone heard if Patti has had her hip surgery and how she is doing?"
I believe she had it a few days after War Paint closed. And since she's doing this, I assume she's doing well.
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
#20Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 10:01pm
I can't find it now, but Josh, her son, posted a post-surgery picture from her hospital room back in early December, I think.
#21Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 10:14pm
'Argentina' will bring the house down and be a crowning moment for Ms LuPone.
Hope there's an ad. break as NO ONE could follow that.
Can't stand the song OR Ms LuPone--they belong together but won't say where.
#22Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 11:11pm
So is it a Broadway medley, or an Andrew Lloyd Webber medley? I'm interested to see if the cast of PHANTOM or any other performers would take part.
Bernstein's centennial is going on next year, so that makes sense for Ben to sing from WEST SIDE STORY.
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#23Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 11:13pm
adamgreer said: "This could just be the wording in the press release, but why does it sound like this “tribute to Broadway” is only highlighting the works of two composers, ALW and Leonard Bernstein?
What about Sondheim? Rodgers and Hammerstein? Kander and Ebb? Irving Berlin?"
The article linked at the top of this thread literally starts: "TV viewers tuning in to the 2018 Grammy Awards are in for a special treat. Tony winners Patti LuPone and Ben Platt have been announced as performers in a special tribute to legendary composers Andrew Lloyd Webber and Leonard Bernstein."
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#24Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/4/18 at 11:53pm
noradesmond said: "I can't find it now, but Josh, her son, posted a post-surgery picture from her hospital room back in early December, I think."
Here's a link to the picture:
https://twitter.com/JoshLJohnston/status/928716491846950912
#25Patti LuPone and Ben Platt to Perform at Grammys
Posted: 1/5/18 at 7:52am
chernjam said: "Would love it if the Grammys folks said she had to sing "With One Look""
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- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
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