Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Patti LuPone audiobook preview
#2Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 5:38pmI'm sure it'll be a nice book, but I don't like her reading it. It feels flat. I don't know. Anyway.
#3Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 5:47pmShe's speaking too slowly and over-enunciating.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#4Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 5:50pmThat's it exactly. It's like she wants to make it perfectly clear as to what she's saying. It just makes it sound stupid.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#5Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 6:11pmIt sounds like William Shatner reading Patti's book through a Patti LuPone voice changer.
#6Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 6:11pmI wasn't really a big fan of it either. I would hope it sounds better as she gets into it, but I wouldn't be surprised if she sounded the same throughout.
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
#7Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 6:15pm"Patti Ann, tie up that DAMN SHEEP." I enjoyed that. She is just over-enunciated. And the actually writing just seems a little stale, and than there's a few gems. But hell, I'll buy it.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#8Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 6:18pmHeaven forbid a phone should go off while you're listening to it.
#9Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 6:19pm
I've read it, and I enjoyed it.
For better or worse, it really sounds like her; her voice definitely comes through on the page.
#10Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 6:48pm
Forgive me if this was posted already, but there's an excerpt of the book available on Scribd. It's only the prologue and first two chapters, but it's something! (There's some adorable pictures, too)
Patti LuPone: A Memoir
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
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#11Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 7:02pm
Thanks "givesmevoice"! 
Very anxious to read the book when it comes out.
#12Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 9:30pmI love the part where Patti tries to make it seem like she discovered Laura Benanti
http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com
#13Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 9:33pmI think she meant discovering Laura for herself. She may not have been familiar with her work before Gypsy.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#14Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 9:48pm
No one, but NO ONE, will ever accuse her of bad diction again.
I like it.
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#15Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 9:54pmI'm sure you are right ljay....but I just think it is funny to imagine Patti thinking to herself that she discovered Laura
http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com
#16Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 9:55pm
"No one, but NO ONE, will ever accuse her of bad diction again."
You got me there Namo! I was just about to complain about her reading voice on the audiobook, then I realized I complain about her slurring words when she sings. To do both would make me a hypocrite.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#18Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 10:14pmOh Im still getting both versions-hardcover and audio-make no mistake! :)
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#19Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 10:21pmSame here! I'm just surprised at the delivery, is all. There are flashes here and there where I can hear hints of what I was expecting in her delivery, but then she goes back into "READ ING" mode.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#20Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 10:54pmAh, so it wasn't Tyne, Lansbury OR Peters who 'broke the mould', but Patti.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#21Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 11:04pmShe should have Bernadette read the audio version.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#22Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/29/10 at 11:07pmHaha...the life story of a brassy Sicilian broad as recited by the voice of Betty Boop...love it!
http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com
#23Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/30/10 at 12:21am
Okay, the William Shatner comment was pretty funny... ; )
But I don't have as much problem with the delivery. I just wish she had recorded the audiobook at a live reading with an audience or something. That would make her a little more animated, personal, and I feel like we should get to hear her laughing and chuckling at her own stories, but we're just getting the words on the page.
But why am I complaining... I know I'll love every single minute of it!! : )
#24Patti LuPone audiobook preview
Posted: 8/30/10 at 2:04amIs it going to be available on audible.com? I've been waiting for this to become available to finally get my free audio book download.
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