Rave about Patti LuPone here- Page 3

[Che2be]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 2:31am

I absolutely love Patti. She is my favorite female bway performer. She is also very sweet and answers alot of my fan mail. Ok. I keep asking her to record Jason Robert Brown's "The Flagmaker, 1776" from SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, but she said no label would record her... isn't that just sad?

Cause she would be AMAZING in that song, which so totally is right for her...

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 3:16am

I LOOOVE PATTI LUPONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she is freakin AWSOME!!!!! i really hope she backs a broadway comeback in a musical!!!! and i hope she records her shoulda, woulda, coulda concert!!! i love that concert!!!! :) and i also hope that she plays mamma rose sometime in her life time!!!!! :)

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:03am

it's not a comeback, it's a return... :)

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:08am

Her interpretation of Ms. Lovett is also fatastic. Of course it will always be Angela Lansbury's role, but I really love Patti's "Worst Pies In London", the way she holds the notes "LONDOOOOOON"- just gives me chills.

And sorry I am out of the loop, but why do people call her crazy?

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 11:18am

She is a little nuts and tough to work with -- nut all that aside I adore her -- she igreat with her fans and appreciates them tremendously -- she has earned a diva status, but sometimes it has hurt her reputation (in some eyes)....

[Matt_G]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 11:21am

"nut all that aside I adore her"

KMF, that very well might be the funniest thing I've EVER read here.

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 12:06pm

be sure to read the review Rob posted in teh Pulse section (from the Chicago Sun Times) -- won't repost the link as it already exists, but a perfect review of her concert this past Sunday/Monday night....

She is sublime

[BT]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 12:17pm

Ah, when she sings Meadowlark I just melt (sorry, not like that W show). What a great review, I wish I had been back in my old stompin' grounds in Chicago for the Ravinia concert. I'll bet she did a mean Ladies Who Lunch too. Which, by the way, and off topic, Lynn Redgrave BUTCHERED in the Kennedy Center production of Company.

[kgee30]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 1:47pm

My God -- a pro-Sondheim thread and a pro-Patti thread. Am I dreaming?

Hmmm...five reasons I love Patti:*

1) in this detestable era of Interchangeable Bland Voices, nobody else sounds like her – warm and rich, with that sort of wild cackle when she cuts loose. She gets better & better.
2) she is a magnetic, powerhouse stage presence – charismatic, confident, winning
3) she loves an audience
4) she’s pretty damn ballsy
5) she’s finally turned into a Sondheim dame...and therefore (thank God) keeps returning to Ravinia

*extra credit: “The Actress Hasn’t Learned the Lines (You’d Like to Hear)” – I don’t know, for some reason a current favorite of mine...something especially tender comes through