Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm

[MasterLcZ]

Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#0

Posted: 10/25/04 at 8:08am

Patti Lupone is appearing at the ENCORES bash on November 21-22.

One of the composers they are selecting to honor is Jules Styne, composer of GYPSY.

Now, I know that Arthur Laurents has made GYPSY off-limits to Patti for a while (various reports on why this is, don't know exactly why so don't ask me)...but...

It's one thing to ban her from a production.

But I don't think you can ban her from a SONG.

Like "Roses Turn", perhaps?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

[robbiej]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#1

Posted: 10/25/04 at 9:42am

Apparently, Laurents can hold a grudge better than my mother.

Lupone was apparently suppose to appear in his play JOLSON SINGS AGAIN (I believe it was this piece) and had to pull out at the last minute. He blames her for it's inability to move forward.

"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

[Rathnait62]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#2

Posted: 10/25/04 at 9:46am

He's very good at that. Don't cross the man.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[JonnyNY]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#3

Posted: 10/25/04 at 10:18am

I'm unfamiliar with Patti Lupone... what's the deal with her and not being allowed to perform GYPSY...

[musicaltheatreman]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#4

Posted: 10/25/04 at 2:32pm

i would also like to know why laurents does not want lupone to perform in gypsy??? margo do you know??? thanks :)

[Matt_G]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#5

Posted: 10/25/04 at 2:33pm

Robbie just said why.

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

[robbiej]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#6

Posted: 10/25/04 at 2:38pm

Thanks, Matt, my boy!

It seems if Margo doesn't say it, it actually hasn't happened!



And this from someone who ADORES Margo!

"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

[JonnyNY]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#7

Posted: 10/25/04 at 2:38pm

I see... I had misread the thread... thanks.

But what power does he have in terms of the rights to material from Gypsy? Why could Ms. Lupone not perform the show in its entirety, but could possibly perform a single song?

[kjklo]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#8

Posted: 10/25/04 at 4:01pm

I suppose because he wrote the book, but not the music or lyrics. Just a guess.

[tpdc]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#9

Posted: 10/25/04 at 4:04pm

As one of the two living authors of GYPSY, he can withold the rights of production if he chooses. He and Sondheim also refused to let the Betty Buckley/Deborah Gibson production to come into NY.

[Borstalboy]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#10

Posted: 10/25/04 at 7:35pm

Huh. No Buckley or LuPone? What do they have against two of Broadway's cuddliest leading ladies?

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[musicaltheatreman]

re: Styne...GYPSY...Patti...Encores Bash...hmmmmm#11

Posted: 10/26/04 at 1:28am

what was wrong with betty buckley's version that it could not come to NY??? thanks :)