The "Official" Patti LuPone Appreciation Thread

[SeptemberKel]

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!

Updated On: 6/13/06 at 08:24 AM

[CrimsonFaerie]

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.

[Prisoner 24601]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:09am

Oh, I lurve Patti! She's so awesome. She and her boobalicious Tony's dress :-p

[EponineAmneris]

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?

Updated On: 6/13/06 at 09:10 AM

[Katecab99]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:21am

What more is there to say other than she is a larger than life DIVA?!

[Mother's Younger Brother]

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]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:26am

As 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]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:44am

Patti is so incredible. I love her!

Viva la Diva!

[bluesoprano]

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!

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 2:50pm

I'm debating the merits of selling internal organs on the black market to see Gypsy at Ravinia this summer.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 2:58pm

WW, who isn't?

[Elphie]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:00pm

And she can play a tuba! Shes the best!

[Elphie]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:00pm

And she can play a tuba! Shes the best!

[SeptemberKel]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:08pm

I'm right there with ya, WW! I'd happily sell a kidney to go.

[Unknown User]

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)

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:41pm

I love the Diva LuPone!

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:42pm

Kel, I'm raising you a bit of liver...beat that!

[kgee30]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:00pm

Oh, The Patti: ass-kicker extraordinaire, the diva's diva. Her "Gypsy" will be one for the ages...sell those livers & kidneys, cats!

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:17pm

I wanna be just like Patti when I grow up! haha.

[mrslovett7]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:21pm

I listen to at least one of her songs everyday and I never get bored of her voice.

[SeptemberKel]

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!

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:42pm

I'd try to sell my liver, but it's... used.

Updated On: 6/13/06 at 04:42 PM

[wonderwaiter]

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.

[keggss23]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:47pm

Love me some Patti!

Wonder - greatest avatar EVER.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:50pm

Thanks!