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The Anarchist and Patti Lupone

lenstersf
#1The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/31/12 at 10:15pm

I would like to see Patti Lupone on stage, and it seems like I'll get the opportunity later in the year when she's starring in Mamet's "The Anarchist." But I was wondering...how good of an actress is she when she's not acting/singing in a musical? Other than her big musical roles, I'm not familiar with her acting credits. Thoughts?

Thanks!

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#2The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/31/12 at 10:23pm

"Patti Lupone" almost drives me as crazy as "Elena Rodgers."

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ljay889
#2The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/31/12 at 11:02pm

She's a classically trained actress from Julliard.....

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#3The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/31/12 at 11:08pm

There are some days when I wish I could watch her scenes in GYPSY again, rather than listen to the album, as good as that is. She's a fabulous actress, and yes, classically trained from Juilliard. She's a presence and a force of nature.

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#4The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/31/12 at 11:22pm

Patti got chopz.


"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

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jv92
#5The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/31/12 at 11:24pm

I actually should have posted, "Who's Patti Lupone?", but I've been awfully bitchy these days and figured I'd be nice and answer the freakin' question. :)

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broadwaydevil
#6The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 12:13am

What's a Lupone?


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jv92
#7The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 12:15am

Is it an Italian relative to Jubilation T. Corn?

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#8The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 2:55am

I totally misread this post to be about THE ANTICHRIST AND PATTI LUPONE.

Interest was piqued.

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#9The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 2:56am

^ LMAO

Some of tomorrow's Chik-Fil-A customers might start a thread like that someday.

lupone76
#10The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 1:39pm

It's amazing how you all think your so wity on here. You don't have an ounce of wit. At least not what I call wit. Tired yes, wity no. ZZZZZZZ

Updated On: 8/1/12 at 01:39 PM

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Jordan Catalano
#11The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 1:47pm

Patti is a fantastic actress and I'm PSYCHED to see her in a new play, especially with Debra Winger!

lenstersf
#12The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 2:12pm

It's really quite impressive how some people seem to get a sense of satisfaction from pointing out minor things like "Lupone" vs. "LuPone" instead of answering the question. Meh.

But thanks to those making a useful contribution.

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#13The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 3:10pm

Well, I may not be witty, but I do know how to spell, lupone76.

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egghumor
#14The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:23pm

and I always thought it was Patty Lou Pone... The Lady with the Blow Torch

Musicaldudepeter
#15The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 8:25pm

Yes Patti was trained at Juilliard in the first class of the Drama Division in the late '60s, and she has stated at numerous points that once she began to train in straight acting, she never wanted to do another musical, but her first big 'break' (or whatever you want to call that experience) was a musical: 'Evita,' and she won her two Tonys for musicals. But she has done plays on Broadway like Mamet's 'The Old Neighborhood' and McNally's 'Master Class' (which she also took to London).

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pinoyidol2006
#16The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:29pm

But she hasn't had a Tony nod for her work in straight plays, which I kind find a little strange.


I like your imperturbable perspicacity.

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#17The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:34pm

In case it went over your head, it is "witty".


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givesmevoice
#18The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:38pm

But she hasn't had a Tony nod for her work in straight plays, which I kind find a little strange.

She was a replacement in Master Class, so she wasn't eligible. And other than The Old Neighborhood and Noises Off, the bulk of her straight plays on Broadway were either with The Acting Company or closed quickly.


When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

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jv92
#19The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:41pm

Do Tony nods mean anything? Really? So if you don't get a Tony nod, you're not good, or you did bad work? Is that how it works?

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givesmevoice
#20The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:47pm

Do Tony nods mean anything? Really? So if you don't get a Tony nod, you're not good, or you did bad work? Is that how it works?

Are you new here?


When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

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jv92
#21The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:52pm

I've been here longer than you. I was being sarcastic, in response to pinoyidol's post.

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givesmevoice
#22The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:04pm

I was being sarcastic, in response to your post. Clearly it didn't work as well as I had hoped.


When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

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Playbilly
#23The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:31pm

Is being "wity" like being a "honkey".


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jv92
#24The Anarchist and Patti Lupone
Posted: 8/2/12 at 12:17am

Apologies, givesmevoice. I'm not very wity.


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