SUNSET BLVD. Reviews - Page 13

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 11/2/24 at 12:48am

Strange Lupone said: "TotallyEffed said: "Strange Lupone said: "Patti will, at last, be giving a performance at the St. James."



She won a Tony at that theatre!"




For a terrible performance. No nuance, no humor, no pathos, no understanding of the character. Just a steamroller going at 300 MPH.”

 

Traitor!

[dan94]

Posted: 11/2/24 at 1:19am

But enough about Imelda Staunton, what did you think of LuPone?

[binau]

Posted: 11/2/24 at 5:47am

Because I became obsessed and listened/watched so many different recordings of Patti and Bernadette I think I've given up trying to defend either because to be honest all the criticism can be true as they didn't always give the same performance. However, I will say that at Patti's peak/best I don't think it's true that she had no nuance, humour or pathos at all. No one brought joy to 'Some People' like she did (which was very different than say Bernadette who ironically tried to be more of a steam roller during the song), she had incredible humour with Boyd Gains (e.g. the scene where they are both on the floor), of course there was pathos for example her line readings before "Everything's Coming Up Roses". For some reason, she decided to throw a lot of it away at the final performance and scream the whole time (e.g. I think the Rose's Turn in particular was horrible). But when she was good, Patti really earned that Tony award in my opinion. 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 11/2/24 at 7:47am

^.
Did you mean to post this is the Gypsy thread since that is the only show you reference?

[Strange Lupone]

Posted: 11/2/24 at 7:59am

TotallyEffed said: "Strange Lupone said: "TotallyEffed said: "Strange Lupone said: "Patti will, at last, be giving a performance at the St. James."



She won a Tony at that theatre!"




For a terrible performance. No nuance, no humor, no pathos, no understanding of the character. Just a steamroller going at 300 MPH.”



Traitor!"

 

Or, as she might say, “TRTR!!!!”