Patti LuPone's Show People interview

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 2:50am

I love this woman.

"Andrew Lloyd Webber writes crap music."
Video

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 3:01am

I LOVE her hair!

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 3:19am

My god, she is HILARIOUS.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 3:26am

She's such a riot.

Half the stuff she says you just have to laugh about. She's so funny.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 3:57am

If ALW wouldn't have hired her for Evita, she wouldn't have a career. I find it very ungreatful and low class of her to keep talking trash about him. Either you love him or hate him, it just shows she's not a good person.

[Joey.]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 4:07am

Probably the best video interview with Patti that I've ever seen. She's the REAL DEAL and this cements it.

UnGRATEful? Hardly. The woman has paid her dues and she gives credit where credit is due to EVITA.

She's frank. That puts people like muscle23ftl off, I get it. However, I think it makes her an entirely GOOD person.

[jamiekennywicked]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 5:29am

Sorry if I missed something, what happened with Patti and SB?

[HistoryBoy2]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 6:57am

She's just the best person ever.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 8:56am

Sorry if I missed something, what happened with Patti and SB?

LOL. That saga gets two whole chapters in her book.

Short answer: She opened the show in London, and was contracted to take the show to Broadway, but ALW decided to open it on Broadway with Glenn Close instead (who had opened the LA company). She successfully sued him and got a hefty sum of money, and built what she calls the "Andrew Lloyd weber Memorial Pool" at her house.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:29am

Fun interview. I have to disagree with her a bit on "Women on the Verge..". The critics just didn't like it. Because it is original, even though it was based on a movie, that doesn't mean they have to support it.

She kind of backpeddled a bit on the ALW statement after she made it.

LOVE that she wants the sound turned down in the theaters. That's one of my complaints. Why even put mics on actors when you still can't hear them over the music? I was actually impressed with Sister Act's sound design the night I saw it because I could actually hear 95% of the lyrics.

Love her. She keeps it pretty real!

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:47am

Watched this last night.
This woman is VICIOUS. And I LOVE every little bit of her.
I really do hope that she does come back to this show like she said she would.

I also loved the line like "Do I have a huge gay fan base?"

...now, can we just discuss how orange she was? She looked like she just shot an episode of Jersey Shore rather than Glee!

[My Oh My]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 11:08am

Like the interviewer, I too was inspired by Patti as a kid. In fact, her "I Dreamed a Dream" introduced me to Les Mis. She introduced me to belting. Hell, she brought originality to the old conventional Broadway style singing. It has a uniqueness that was mesmerizing. Love.

And she is the only person allowed to talk crap about Les Mis!!! XD

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 11:21am

loving the magenta lipstick and her brght tan - LOL

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 11:39am

The discussion about Seven Deadly Sins made me even more excited to see it, but I really found her comments about Wendy Whelan (who I've never seen dance before) so lovely and full of respect and awe. I love that Patti is interested in and knowledgeable of arts outside of the theatre.

[Katia2]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 12:34pm

Her "Bye!" at the end is so freaking adorable! Ahhh this woman. I don't think anything she said was out of line; love her soap boxing.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 12:42pm

She's incredibly talented and I love her, but she can be obnoxious and puts me off at times.

Of course the big queen fawns all over her.

She looks great-very healthy and relaxed.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:33pm

I think she is immensely talented but there are times when I wish somebody would push her off that damn soap box she's always on.

And I happen to like The Lady's Paying.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 2:08pm

LOVE HER!

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 2:24pm

Also, Im really tired of the actors from WOTV defending it. I mean you worked with the material for months so of course you grasp it better. However, people seeing the show ONE TIME had no f@#king idea what was happening and the music was all over the place.

The majority of critics and audiences did not like this show. There was no reason to support it.

Sorry Patti-you got that one wrong.

Oh and F@#K you to that interviewer, "oh when I heard the score I KNEW people wouldn't get it"

Please remove your lips from Patti's ass.

A lot of educated, theatre savvy people hated that show and it was far from Patti's best work.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 2:49pm

I'd much rather watch Paul Wontorek than have to read a certain interviewer's dreck every other day. I think we know who I'm talking about.

[Brick]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 3:03pm

I think she said once that it needed to go out of town. And I agree. The show had some big problems, but an out of town tryout could have addressed some of them. Basically, in that preview period, they could only tinker.

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 5:12pm

I love her soooo much

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 5:12pm

This might just be me and the way my personality is, but it kind of bothered me that Wontoreck hadn't even done cursory research on Seven Deadly Sins. There have been so many press releases about it since it was announced and he still sounded like he couldn't be assed to at least look it up on wikipedia.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 5:41pm

I enjoyed the interview, but Wontorek is a terrible interviewer. He could barely contain his queeny enthusiasm and spent the whole interview drooling over everything she said. Basically, she ran the interview. I wish he would have asked some more interesting questions.

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 6:20pm

Loved this. One thing I'd have to agree with the interviewer on: I'd go see her in anything.