Patti LuPone: A Memoir (spoiler alert)- Page 5
Patti LuPone: A Memoir (spoiler alert)
#100Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/18/10 at 9:31amTerri Klausner.
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz
#101Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/18/10 at 1:21pmAn example of Klausner's behavior might have helped make Patti seem more than just paranoid.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#102Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/18/10 at 1:33pmI recall her mentioning things like taking down Patti's reviews in the back hallways and putting up Terri's. Perhaps it wasn't Terri herself, but still something that would upset the star of any show.
#103Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/18/10 at 1:36pmI thought that was more what the chorus was doing. At least, that was how I interpreted it.
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
#104Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/18/10 at 1:38pm
I can not WAIT to read this!!! Appearently I'm getting it for my birthday on Tuesday 
But... SHHHHH... I'm not supposed to know 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEtRWI_U0Mw
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Updated On: 9/18/10 at 01:38 PM
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#105Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/18/10 at 7:42pm
"I thought that was more what the chorus was doing. At least, that was how I interpreted it."
Yeah, that was how I remember it, too. Either way, that would rattle any actor.
#106Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/18/10 at 7:51pmDon't forget that Patti was also losing her voice early in the run in California during the try-outs because she was struggling with the notes, as she mentions. Terri went on for her several times, including press night. Rumors were swirling backstage that either Terri would be bumped up or (and this one wasn't entirely unfounded) that Barbra Streisand had approached Robert Stigwood for the film rights and the role of Eva, and he was willing to play if she would take over. (In truth, Stiggie turned her down.)
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#107Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 12:16amFinally got the audio book player to download the book and I can't wait to hear it! And in her own voice!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#109Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 2:30amHer airplane story is hilarious! "Tina! Call 1-800-CONCORD!" "What the f*ck just happened?!"
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#110Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 12:29pmI finished the book yesterday. I could not put it down--I was reading it at school, even during lunch. There were so many funny things in that book. I was also really interested to hear that she was offered Fosca in Passion but had to turn it down for Sunset Boulevard. I was also shocked about the story of what happened with the Austrian alternate in Evita. I laughed when she saw Sunset on closing night and said it was just so boring. But my favorite passage was at the beginning of the chapter "Working Actor (Part 1)" when she talked about expecting people banging down doors and her love life would start up, but she said "the banging didn't happen. I guess that could be applied to my love life, too...".
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#111Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 1:02pmWhatever vague minimal interest I had in reading this book has been aquashed dead by reading this thread.
#112Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 4:01pm
Awesome Danny, I so agree!!. Its rare that I devour I book in 24 hours but this is one of those times. An excellent read I sooooo hope she comes back to London some day soon
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#113Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 4:13pmWhat happened to the Vienna Evita?
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--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
#114Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 6:45pmI got my book and audiotape earlier this week. I'm surprised that two things were not mentioned at all: "Noises Off" and the biggest health crisis of the early 80's and beyond. Maybe that will be covered in her second book. from RC in Austin, Texas
"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)
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#115Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 7:20pmRoman, what did you think of the reference to John Houseman's penis?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#116Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 7:35pm
" I laughed when she saw Sunset on closing night and said it was just so boring."
Can you say sour grapes?
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#117Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 7:50pm
Dolly: "eeewwwwww!" That part almost made me "sick up."
StageManager2: "She's entitled to her opinion".
from RC in austin, texas
"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)
hsrdmd
Swing Joined: 4/19/06
#118Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/19/10 at 8:04pmJust finished it. The unexpected barb here and there. I was somewhat shocked at the Sondheim "real" Sunset Boulevard story (meow!). I've never thought of Patti as "one of the company" and her Les Miz "avoid chorus" story cemented it for me.
RazzleDazzle3
Swing Joined: 5/6/09
#119Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/20/10 at 2:33pmI loved everything about this book! She is a classy lady!
#120Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/20/10 at 2:40pm
What happened to the Vienna Evita?
The alternate's ex-boyfriend hired some guys to rough her up. (I forget what exactly they did, though) Very Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan.
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
#121Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/21/10 at 11:11amI'm listening to the audiobook - every T is capitalised. Patti, there's good diction and there's ridiculousness.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#122Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/21/10 at 11:38amWait 'til you get to the chapter devoted to Chhhhiam Toep'l.
#123Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/21/10 at 11:39amVery surprised that "Noises Off" isn't mentioned at all in the book. She was hysterical in the show.
#124Patti LuPone: A Memoir
Posted: 9/21/10 at 1:17pm
RazzleDazzle3 I'm with you on this one. Am a fully paid up member of the Patti Lupone appreciation society
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