Patti and Opening Nights..

[lupone76]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 4:00pm

Whenever I see opening night guest photos on BWW or Playbill.Com I've never seen Patti LuPone pictured. I almost always see Nathan, Bernadette, Sarah and Matthew, Lin Manuel, Linda Lavin etc. How come Patti is never to be found in these photos? I guess she's not into going to opening nights or she's busy often with concerts or other projects. I'm certain that she must get invites to these openings but never seems to attend.

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 4:37pm

Probably because Ms. LuPone lives in Kent, CT which even in light traffic is over a 2 hour drive from Manhattan. Would you really want to spend over 4 hours in traffic (round trip) to see a 2 hour musical?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 4:57pm

How does that work when she does gigs in the city? Like her weeks at 54 Below? Does she really drive 2 hrs after an 11pm show?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 5:27pm

When Patti did GYPSY, she had a small apartment in the city and only went home on weekends. She may do the same with shorter gigs.

[lupone76]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 5:43pm

Dollypop, you mean she would only go home after the Sun matinee and be home for the Mon off day at Gypsy and come back to the city for the Tues evening performance. Not the weekend, when Sat was a 2 show day. As to distance being an issue she's Patti LuPone, I'm sure she could check in to one of the city's luxury hotels after the opening show and party or be chaufered home in a luxury vehicle to Connecticut. Besides, many "ordinary" people schlep over 2 hours by car, train or bus to see a 2 hour musical.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 5:53pm

That's OK for some people, some hum drum people.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:02pm

Maybe she just doesn't want to go. Maybe she's not invited. Maybe she goes and isn't photographed. There's a bunch of possibilities.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:03pm

They always give her the wrong address!

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:07pm

Maybe someone drains the gas from her car so Terri Klausner can go in her place!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:09pm

Dear lupone76:

A weekend takes place when a person's work week ends--regardless of the day or date.

Thank you very much.

[theaternut]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:11pm

Patti probably is not a media attention whore like Lin Manuel ( he goes to a opening of a 7/11) or that Beyonce.

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:20pm

"Dear lupone76:
A weekend takes place when a person's work week ends--regardless of the day or date.
Thank you very much."

Exactly! I have a friend who works in the hotel industry and her weekend begins Tuesday evening and she returns to work Friday morning.

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:30pm

"I'm sure she could check in to one of the city's luxury hotels after the opening show and party or be chaufered home in a luxury vehicle to Connecticut."

Not everyone relishes spending hard earned cash on a luxury hotel and a chauffeured limousine just to have their picture taken on a red carpet.

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 6:34pm

Yeah, I have no doubt her contract rider for her 54 Below shows included a hotel for the night, just like her apartment in the city for shows is paid for by the company, not out of her own pocket.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/4/13 at 10:21pm

She probably OWNS the apartment in the city. It's little more than a bedroom and a kitchen.

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/5/13 at 3:32am

"Yeah, I have no doubt her contract rider for her 54 Below shows included a hotel for the night, just like her apartment in the city for shows is paid for by the company, not out of her own pocket."

Yes, but a hotel room or apartment rent paid by 54 Below or the GYPSY producers would count as taxable income to Ms. LuPone under U.S. tax law, 450 F.2d 66 (better known as The Ethel Merman Rule).

https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/450/450.F2d.66.60.71-1433.html

[Emma White]

Posted: 3/5/13 at 1:25pm

They probably don't invite her because they like Bernadette better.
I'm totally kidding.
Mostly.

[kieranbec]

Posted: 3/6/13 at 2:30am

^^ But for real.