Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway

[chanel]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#1

Posted: 7/28/11 at 1:42pm

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2011/07/patti_and_mandy.php

[AwesomeDanny]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#2

Posted: 7/28/11 at 1:45pm

For whatever reason, I just don't see this being very successful.

[AC126748]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#2

Posted: 7/28/11 at 1:49pm

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

[madbrian]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#3

Posted: 7/28/11 at 2:04pm

I'd rather seen an evening of Forbidden Broadway parodies of them. That said, why is Mandy doing an Ed Grimley impression in the photo in the link?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[aasjb4ever]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#4

Posted: 7/28/11 at 2:07pm

I wonder what theatre it's going into...The available theaters are:
Barrymore
Belasco
Broadhurst (?)
Golden
Kerr
Longacre
Lyceum
Nederlander
Studio 54

[SeanMartin]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#5

Posted: 7/28/11 at 2:12pm

I swear, I want to get out my nun's costume and slap him hard with a wooden ruler as I shout, "WILL YOU STAND UP STRAIGHT?"

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[uncageg]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#6

Posted: 7/28/11 at 2:28pm

I will see it for her. I am not a big fan of his. If he sings selections from Sunday in the park, that I would enjoy.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[jimmycurry01]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#7

Posted: 7/28/11 at 2:28pm

I saw this in Chicago. It was pretty good, but far from a sell out. Anyone who had mezzanine or balcony seating were upgraded to orchestra level.

[best12bars]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#8

Posted: 7/28/11 at 2:43pm

I love Patti Patinkin and Mandy LuPone!

But they look like Donna Karan and Ed Grimley in that photo.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[aliceripleysnumber1]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#9

Posted: 7/28/11 at 2:44pm

I've said it before...this show is drab and boring. And I LOVE Ms. LuPone.

[WOSQ]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#10

Posted: 7/28/11 at 3:11pm

There isn't a theatre big enough for those egos.

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

[SNAFU]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#11

Posted: 7/28/11 at 3:25pm

Is he grabbing her boob?

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[Bettyboy72]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#12

Posted: 7/28/11 at 4:05pm

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

[Reginald Tresilian]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#13

Posted: 7/28/11 at 4:09pm

He's awfully hard to take, isn't he?

I'd be happier with an updated version of the one-woman show she did on Broadway.

All that said, I'm sure I'll go. And it is kinda fun to see the two of them do some "Evita" stuff.

[Bettyboy72]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#14

Posted: 7/28/11 at 4:13pm

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

[Reginald Tresilian]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#15

Posted: 7/28/11 at 4:19pm

Oh, that's too bad.

[Gothampc]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#16

Posted: 7/28/11 at 4:21pm

"Is he grabbing her boob?"

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.

Updated On: 7/28/11 at 04:21 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#17

Posted: 7/28/11 at 4:23pm

So he's unhooking her bra, most likely.

[best12bars]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#18

Posted: 7/28/11 at 4:54pm

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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[vegas2]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#19

Posted: 7/28/11 at 5:09pm

When I first heard about this, I was excited. But these comments are pretty devastating! Does anyone like this show?

[best12bars]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#20

Posted: 7/28/11 at 5:19pm

I haven't seen this show. I've seen Patti live many times in concert.

And even with the bitchy comments, the negativity, the mixed reviews ...

... she's still Patti Friggin' LuPone. And if you haven't seen her live, go. Even if she's uneven, and Mandy is over-the-top ham ... they're worth it.

I'm sure you will have one or even several moments that will make it more than worthwhile. That's always been the case with me.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Reginald Tresilian]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#21

Posted: 7/28/11 at 5:25pm

Nicely put, Besty.

[Tag]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#22

Posted: 7/28/11 at 5:38pm

I saw this in Toronto. One of the most boring nights in a theatre and a complete waste of money.

[BwayBaby18]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#23

Posted: 7/28/11 at 5:44pm

I thought she was gonna be busy playing Miss Hannigan?

[binau]

Patti and Mandy are headed to Broadway#24

Posted: 7/28/11 at 10:11pm

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.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.