What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
#1What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:45am
I think it's obvious she won't be performing ROSE'S TURN since Bernadette just did that 5 years ago. And how awkward would that be performing that with Bernadette most likely in the audience?
I think they should do 'Everything's Coming Up Roses' fully staged with Herbie and louise.
I pray to God they don't do a medley. '
What do you think?
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
#2re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:47amWho is to say the show will be nominated...
#2re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:47amI think Some People would be cool! But I would like either that or Everything's Coming Up Roses.
#3re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:49amI think she could get away with "Rose's Turn."
Midnight Radio
Broadway Star Joined: 5/26/07
#4re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:50am'Everything's Coming Up Roses' was her stand out number at City Center. I would think that would be the best choice...
#5re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:51am
FlauntIt, We know what you think of this revival. But the chances of it not getting nominated are very slim. This isn't GREASE.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#6re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:55amMidnight Radio-you think "Everything's Coming Up Roses" was the standout? I kinda thought it was "Rose's Turn."
#7re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:57am
Maybe they should throw everyone for a loop and showcase someone besides Mama Rose on the Tony's.
Don't get me wrong, Patti's pretty fierce in the role and all that jazz. However, it seems like Laura Benanti, Boyd Gaines, and Leigh Ann Larkin are adding as much to the show as she is.
Midnight Radio
Broadway Star Joined: 5/26/07
#8re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:05pmDon't get me wrong, I though Patti performed every number wonderfully. But yes, I thought 'Everything's Coming Up Roses' was her stand out piece, you could just see her pure desperation. Also, it seems to be a more sung through piece for her and the small amount of dialogue prior to it sets up the number perfectly.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#9re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:08pm
are you crazy theatrekid?? It's not called "Benanti Gypsy."
lol
#10re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:10pm
True, true.
I was just trying out some ideas for the act.
#11re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:13pmI would love it if they gave Laura something to do.
#12re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:16pmBenanti would have something to do if they did 'Everything's Coming Up Roses' - granted it's not singing.
#13re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:17pm
Even though "Rose's Turn" will probably be chosen (and that's the one I'd prefer), I think "Together Wherever We Go" would be great too. It would showcase all of the three leads' talents, not just Patti's.
#14re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:21pmI forgot about TOGETHER. That's not a bad idea. I'm really doubting they'll do 'Rose's Turn.' But maybe Laurents is nasty enough to have LuPone do it a slap in the face to Bernadette and Mendes?
#15re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:27pm
They should just perform the dressing room scene, THAT was the stand-out at City Center. Of course that won't happen. She'll obviously perform "Rose's Turn" and I don't see anything awkward about Peters being in the audience, she got to do her production in '03, got to play the role she had been wanting to play since she was a little thing playing one of the Hollywood blondes, got a love letter from Brantley, was nominated for a Tony, and got an immediate standing ovation at the Tonys after "Rose's Turn." Now it is LuPone's turn to do the role, I doubt there is any awkwardness about it.
I like the idea of "Together Wherever We Go." If it were up to me, I'd have them do "You Gotta Get a Gimmick," that's the kind of upbeat and hilarious number that would make the tourists get tickets.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#16re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:31pm
OMG yes, the dressing room scene.
"I SAID TURN IT OFF!!!"
#17re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:37pmI think on the list of numbers to preform, "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" is the last one.
#18re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:38pmI second "Together Wherever We Go"
#19re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:39pm
Ljay, Laurents may have hated the way Mendes approached his show, but he has gone on to say that Peters was a fabulous Rose (Sondheim is also a fan of Peters' rose) and he is very good friends with Peters. He won't be trying to slap her in the face and please Sam Mendes is an Oscar-winning director, married to one of the hottest (not to mention talented) Hollywood actresses, you think he really minds what Laurents does or doesn't do at the Tonys?
As I said, I fail to see how this revival or LuPone performing at the Tonys would affect anyone involved with the '03 revival, unless their egos are so big that they thought GYPSY revivals would stop after them.
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Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:51pm
I think it'd be neat if Patti and Boyd did 'You'll Never Get Away From Me" - that was always a really fun number at City Center.
If not, I'd say 'Everything's Coming Up Roses'.
#21re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:53pm
I third "Together Wherever We Go"
Nice way to showcase Benanti also.
#22re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:02pm
A letter to the producers of GYPSY:
Please do TOGETHER. Yours is one of the first GYPSYs that points out how much of an ensemble piece the show is, and you need to broadcast that.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#23re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:15pmEither "Buenos Aires" or "Meadowlark". Her choice.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#24re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?
Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:19pm
"Meadowlark" would be nice and unexpected.
Honestly, I'd like to see "Everything's Coming Up Roses" or "Together" over "Rose's Turn."
And if anyone thinks for a second it's not going to be a big Patti Belt Fest...I don't know how I was going to finish that statement.
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