"Rose’s Last Turn" - A Photo Diary of Patti LuPone's Final Day in GYPSY - New York Magazine- Page 2

[NGeorgiaBwayFan]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 9:52am

logan wrote: "She means she's grateful people appreciate the performance/show so much, but the fact that such adoration is being piled on to the show may mean that there isn't really much else out there to compare it to. The fact that one show is being lifted so high up by fans may speak to the quality of what is out there on Broadway right now. "

** In addition to your comment,logan, I also thought that maybe she meant that it's bad for theatre when a good show that the fans appreciate can't stay open cause they can't sell the seats.

Updated On: 1/26/09 at 09:52 AM

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:18am

This may sound strange, because I've always seen Patti LuPone as being really unattractive, but I think when she's dressed as Mama Rose, she looks really pretty-- much prettier than she looked as Eva Peron. Her husband's quite good-looking, too!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:31am

"I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING THIS MIGHT ALL BE A MISUNDERSTANDING GIVEN THAT THERE IN FACT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TWO INCIDENTS OF PICTURE-TAKING IN BACK-TO-BACK PERFORMANCES OF GYPSY WITH BOTH A SANCTIONED AND AN UN-SANCTIONED PHOTOGRAPHER!!"

April, I think you're exactly right.

But I don't think it's odd at all that Patti would be upset by one and not by the other. Someone taking photographs is distracting. But if you know it's for a reason--eg. a magazine article--and you're prepared for it, then, well, you're prepared for it.

I haven't weighed in on this yet because I can sort of see both sides. The usual Patti haters had their usual reaction (and seem to have given Glenn Close a pass for doing a similar thing); the Patti worshippers see it as either her having high standards or just something to add to the legend (or both).

I think two things: those who carry on about the sacrilege of breaking the fourth wall seem a little hysterical to me. It's not as though she stopped performing open heart surgery. She was putting on a show. That being said, she may well have felt (and I believe this to be the case) that in fact she WASN'T able to give their money's worth to those paying customers that everyone keeps screaming about. She also may have figured that those audience members in the vicinity of the guy taking the photos were already yanked out of the "reality" of the scene.

Bottom line for me: if you were actually there, and you genuinely felt cheated somehow, then that's valid. But I don't think I've heard any of the actual survivors of the incident say that.
Updated On: 1/26/09 at 10:31 AM

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:35am

Schmerg, although I actually think Patti is really pretty, I do think she looks lovely as Rose. I think she wears costumes well, and I think the wig was incredibly flattering, in terms of color and those pretty curlies.

and yes, her husband is among the silver fox ranks of Joe Biden and Jon Stewart.

Updated On: 1/26/09 at 10:35 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:36am

I think Jerby was still assessing the damage.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:56am

Did anyone else JUST notice Sondheim sitting behind her in picture 7?

[NGeorgiaBwayFan]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:57am

I noticed that, too. How cool.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:58am

I noticed him right away; it took me longer to realize she was wearing the red LuPone Gypsy shirt in the first two pics, though.

[n2005]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:58am

Sometimes Patti looks stunning , such as at the Tony awards but I have to give her props for being photographed just after waking , I find it hard to even look at myself in the mirror when I get up. Her husband is very attractive , they look adorable together. Great to see a couple so in love and affectionate after 20 years.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 11:02am

Loved this The pictures are amazing.

[NGeorgiaBwayFan]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 11:04am

n2005, I agree.

I pm'd this story to some folks, but now that it's come up here,

At the stage door during our New Year's trip, Patti's husband Matt came out and was standing by the limo door. When he turned around and smiled, I said to him "you must be really proud of her". He said he was so proud of her and that in just another week she would be all his again.

I think it's great to see a couple like that.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 11:10am

NGeorgia, that's so cute! I think they seem like they're such a sweet couple.

[goodmanK]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 1:01pm

Did anyone notice what it says at the botton of the Rose's Last Turn article? Looks like the show may be going to London - I REALLY HOPE THIS HAPPENS!!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:52pm

I gotta say, seeing that look on Katie Micha's face broke my heart a little.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:56pm

I know! the little girls were all so sad. but someone should remind them that they can still go back to school; it's the chorus girls and boys I really felt bad for.

[singtopher]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 3:09pm

As one who was of the impression that the incident surrounded a NY magazine photographer, I am now convinced that story is untrue. If the photo journalist was there to cover Patti's last show a. the pictures would not have been taken the previous evening (we hope) and b. Patti would have been fully aware the photographer was still there. I stand corrected.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 3:13pm

Thank you.

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 3:15pm

Is the site not loading for anyone else?

[BroadwayBelle2]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 3:18pm

Looking at those pictures makes me miss Gypsy even more. What a great article, I enjoyed it.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 3:21pm

She looks really haughty in that pic the OP posted.

[metoog]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 3:28pm

Not knowing much about her stopping the show or the situation of the photographer the day before... It does appear that these pictures could have been taken on more than one night or at multiple performances. This is often the case with video and photo shoots. It is a chronical of "a day" but it seems very unlikely they would let the photographer go from backstage and out into the audience at the same show. I would think this would be disruptive to the audience. He has some resting shots (backstage) and then performance shots shortly after (from out front), and multiple shots during curtain call - both from the stage and from the audience.

Great shots though!

Updated On: 1/26/09 at 03:28 PM

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:08pm

I can kinda see myself in that picture of the standing O!

[logan0215]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:33pm

Yea I'm sure they had champagne and tears at the 2nd to last performance...

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:37pm

I don't know about you, but I always have a bottle of champagne handy.

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:49pm

I'm sure someone has posted this before (and I can't imagine someone hasn't):

Unless someone steps forward and identifies himself/herself as the ejected photographer with solid evidence that they were working for New York (or any) magazine, the 'Patti flipped out because she forgot there was someone out there' story is bullshytte.