Patti LuPone book cover!
Patti LuPone book cover!
#1Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 12:33pm
#2Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 12:34pmI think I will like it better actually on the book. I don't think that picture does it justice.
#2Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 12:35pmI LOVE the picture, but a friend and I were discussing how vaguely tacky the loopy script they used for LuPone is. (and how I wish LuPone was the actual name of the book now) But it wouldn't be Patti if it wasn't just a little bit tacky.
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
#3Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 12:52pmI think it is fine. What is inside, for me, is more important than what the cover looks like! Can't wait to read it!
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morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#7Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:47pm
Here's hoping Patti's audio version of the book isn't abridged. This one is DEFINITELY one you want to hear told directly from her lips. 
#8Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 2:30pmWasn't there a contest to name her book? And "A Memoir" won?
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#9Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 2:50pm
Rumor has it that title was chosen and locked-in quite some time ago and that the so-called contest was just a publicity stunt, etc.
#10Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 4:06pmI really thought Patti had more humor then do silly little publicity stunts...but then again she did stop the show the night before she closed Gypsy...if there was a opportunity for a publicity stunt it was then or never. She already had the Tony and she couldn't do it on closing night...
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#11Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 4:17pm
Any publicity stunt would most likely have been concocted by the publisher, not Patti.
And I would imagine it's much more likely that this was the working title all along, and the contest didn't yield anything that everyone--and trust me, A LOT of people get to voice opinions on such matters--liked better.
#13Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 4:42pmI don't understand how it could be a publicity stunt. Most of those people who participated were probably already going to buy her book. It's not like it brought in a bunch of new consumers. Maybe if they had advertised the contest during Glee we could call it a publicity stunt.
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
#14Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 4:58pm
I don't think Patti would have the patience for a publicity stunt. The explanation I as given by someone familiar with the workings of her mind is that she had this title in mind before the contest, she agreed to the contest, she read all the entries and had a great time doing so, and then she decided that her original idea was the best title.
Makes more sense as a Patti story than Patti going along with someone else's rigged contest.
pc1145N2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#15Patti LuPone book cover!
Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:44pmIt's my belief that it was a publicity stunt. The title "Patti LuPone: A Memoir" was entered in Barnes & Noble's website and internal book database well before the contest was announced. B&N would not have entered a temporary title, it's much to difficult to change.
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