Their act is them on a bare stage with maybe two props and some lighting. They look like they perform in the clothes they wore to the theatre. It's going to cost three cents to produce.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
The show was a dud. I hope they liven it up. When I saw the show they never even addressed the audience with a welcome greeting.
The show will be super cheap to produce so it will have a pretty low weekly nut. They can get by with half-full houses.
I saw that show for Patti and it confirmed my disdain for Patinkin. He's an insufferable scenery chewing schmuck. Awful.
"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
Reg, if they are doing the show they toured with, the only "Evita" stuff was "Dont Cry For Me Argentina"-Patti singing it with a piano.
Patinkin had more stage time than Patti and they did some monologues together. The audience was bewildered.
I wish Patti would do "Gypsy In My Soul" on Broadway and leave Miss Mandy at home.
"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
Only if her boob in on her back. Which for Patti LuPone may be the case.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Patti's method of operating in these cabaret/concerts is to sleepwalk through 2/3 of a song and then come alive for the last eight bars and nail the last note for all her life.
It leaves the audience only remembering the "big finish" and forgetting that she was ordering a pizza in her mind for most of the number.
And I've seen her do this over and over again, number after number, on more than one occasion live. Some people call it "pacing yourself" or "saving your voice."
Okay.
As for Mandy, I think he's actually operating the controls in that photo.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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I agree this is an awful, boring show. I am thankful to see Patti live and if I was in NYC I'd probably see it again just to see her. If you have seen her in GYPSY, COMPANY, VERGE et al. (I haven't) I'm not sure if it would be worth seeing.
"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