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#1

What 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?
#8

re: 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.

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#9

re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?

Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:05pm

Don'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.
#14

re: 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.
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#16

re: 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.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#18

re: What should Patti LuPone perform at the Tonys this year for GYPSY?

Posted: 2/17/08 at 12:37pm

I think on the list of numbers to preform, "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" is the last one.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#20

re: 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.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#22

re: 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.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#23

re: 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.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#25

re: 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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