The "Official" Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
The "Official" Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
SeptemberKel
Featured Actor Joined: 8/20/04
#0The "Official" Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 8:24am
Yes, another appreciation thread, and no - I'm not interested in hearing about it. So, since it seems every other Best Actress in a Musical nominee has a thread devoted to her, why not Ms. Patti?!?!?!
Share your love and appreciation for this one-of-a-kind, wonderfully brilliant, incredibly gifted woman here!
"Of course there is the castle - the ruined castle. I find it lovely. Probably because it's ruined, I suppose." - Passion
Updated On: 6/13/06 at 08:24 AM
CrimsonFaerie
Chorus Member Joined: 4/18/06
#1re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 8:27am
Yes! It's about time for a Patti appreciation thread.
I adore Patti! Amazingly talented woman... :) I love her in Sweeney, and I can't wait to see Gypsy this summer.
#2re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:09amOh, I lurve Patti! She's so awesome. She and her boobalicious Tony's dress :-p
-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.
-My fault, I fear.
#3re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:10am
Patti is amazing. I can't remember a time in my life that I did not know who she was. As a child, I was already heavily into musicals. I loved EVITA and then of course she created and originated the role of Fantine in LES MIZ 
I enjoyed her TV show LIFE GOES ON as well.
ANYTHING GOES, the SWEENEY TODD concert, the PASSION concert and now the SWEENEY revival just cement the fact that she is incredible.
She is talented and tough. Her new album LADY WITH THE TORCH is very sad. Vocally, emotionally it's amazing... but does anyone else get the sense that she is depressed?
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Updated On: 6/13/06 at 09:10 AM
#4re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:21am
What more is there to say other than she is a larger than life DIVA?!
#5re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:19am
KA-CHING!!
Patti has never let me down in live-performance...something that, unfortunately can't be said for other supposed stars of her status. On top of that, she's a first-class New York dame and proud of it!!
sondwisenheimer
Stand-by Joined: 5/3/06
#6re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:26amAs much as I enjoyed her take on Mrs. Lovett, it's her performance in "Anything Goes" that stands out in my mind. It was one of my first Broadway shows to see, and I knew her only from the cast album of "Evita." That score was so perfect for her voice at that time. Every time she'd belt a note it was like someone was playing a beautiful brass instrument. I still consider that revival and its recording to be the definitive version of the show.
mrslovett7
Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#7re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:44am
Patti is so incredible. I love her!
Viva la Diva!
~H*
"I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!"
-Michael Cerveris
#8re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 2:48pm
Patti is a singer/actress that I have never gotten bored with and probably never will. She always gives the best performances and really knows how to entertain the crowd.
I can't wait to see her next year when she makes her LA Opera debut!
#9re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 2:50pmI'm debating the merits of selling internal organs on the black market to see Gypsy at Ravinia this summer.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#10re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 2:58pmWW, who isn't?
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#11re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:00pmAnd she can play a tuba! Shes the best!
"They hear drums. We hear music."
#12re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:00pmAnd she can play a tuba! Shes the best!
"They hear drums. We hear music."
SeptemberKel
Featured Actor Joined: 8/20/04
#13re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:08pmI'm right there with ya, WW! I'd happily sell a kidney to go.
"Of course there is the castle - the ruined castle. I find it lovely. Probably because it's ruined, I suppose." - Passion
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:18pm
she's a mother to all of us.
(& i dont mean that in any kind of disrespecful overly-familiar way)
#15re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:41pmI love the Diva LuPone!
#16re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:42pmKel, I'm raising you a bit of liver...beat that!
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
kgee30
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/04
#17re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:00pmOh, The Patti: ass-kicker extraordinaire, the diva's diva. Her "Gypsy" will be one for the ages...sell those livers & kidneys, cats!
#18re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:17pmI wanna be just like Patti when I grow up! haha.
mrslovett7
Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#19re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:21pmI listen to at least one of her songs everyday and I never get bored of her voice.
~H*
"I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!"
-Michael Cerveris
SeptemberKel
Featured Actor Joined: 8/20/04
#20re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:39pm
"I listen to at least one of her songs everyday and I never get bored of her voice."
Absolutely. It's quite sad right now - my car consists of all of her cast recordings and her two albums. That's it.
I can't help but wonder to myself if/when she'll come back to Broadway next. There must be a million roles I'd whore myself out to see her cast in. I'm so (stupidly) worried that Sweeney will be her last Broadway act. She better be back! She needs her second Tony!
"Of course there is the castle - the ruined castle. I find it lovely. Probably because it's ruined, I suppose." - Passion
#21re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:42pm
I'd try to sell my liver, but it's... used.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
Updated On: 6/13/06 at 04:42 PM
#22re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:46pm
I can't help but wonder to myself if/when she'll come back to Broadway next.
I was hoping she could be Joanne in John Doyle's revival of Company, but alas, it has already been cast.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#23re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:47pm
Love me some Patti!
Wonder - greatest avatar EVER.
"When you're a Jet, / You're a Jet all the way, / From your first pirouette / To your last grand jete." --Brian Kaman
#24re: The 'Official' Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:50pm
Thanks! 
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
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