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Encyclopedia > Patti Lupone
Patti LuPone
Born April 21, 1949 (1949-04-21) (age 58)
Northport, New York

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Biography

LuPone was born in Northport, New York, the daughter of Angela Louise (née Patti), a college library administrator, and Orlando Joseph LuPone, a school administrator [1]. LuPone’s great-grand-aunt was the celebrated 19th-century opera singer Adelina Patti. Her brother Robert LuPone is an actor, dancer, and director. Her other brother William LuPone is a teacher. When they were young, they performed on Long Island as the LuPone Trio. She is of Italian/Sicilian descent [2] and a graduate of Northport High School where she studied under the musical direction of voice coach, Esther Scott. LuPone was part of the first graduating class of Juilliard’s Drama Division. Northport is a village in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. ... Patti as Marguerite in Faust, 1875. ... Languages Italian, Sicilian, Neapolitan, Corsican, Sardinian, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Ligurian, Lombard, Piedmontese, Venetian, Ladin, Friulian Religions predominantly Roman Catholic      The Italians are a Southern European ethnic group found primarily in Italy and in a wide-ranging diaspora throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia. ... Sicily ( in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ...


Personal life

LuPone married Matthew Johnston in 1988 on the Vivian Beaumont Stage at Lincoln Center after filming the TV movie LBJ. They have one child, Joshua Luke Johnston (b. November 21, 1990). The family resides in Connecticut. Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Official language(s) none (de facto English) Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport[2] Largest metro area Hartford Metro Area[3] Area  Ranked 48th in the US  - Total 5,543[4] sq mi (14,356 km²)  - Width 70 miles (113 km)  - Length 110 miles (177 km)  - % water 12. ...


Career

Theater work

LuPone is an important player in contemporary American dramatic and musical theater. In 1972 John Houseman took his beloved class and formed The Acting Company, making them America’s foremost nationally touring repertory theater company. Her stint with the Acting Company lasted from 1972 to 1976, and she was featured in such works as The School for Scandal, Women Beware Women, The Beggar’s Opera (1973), The Time of Your Life, The Lower Depths, The Hostage, Next Time I’ll Sing to You, Measure for Measure, Scapin, Edward II, The Orchestra, Love’s Labours Lost, Arms and the Man, The Way of the World, and The Robber Bridegroom (1975), for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She made her Broadway debut in the play Three Sisters. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... John Houseman (September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born actor and film producer. ... The Acting Company (Group 1 Acting Company) Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and current Producing Artistic Director Margot Harley with members of the first graduating class of Juilliards Drama Division, The Acting Company has performed over 100 plays for over 3 million people in 48 states and nine... The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. ... Women Beware Women is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton, and first published in 1657. ... Painting based on The Beggars Opera, Scene V, William Hogarth, c. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The Lower Depths is perhaps Maxim Gorkys best-known play. ... The Hostage is a 1958 play by Brendan Behan, set in a very odd house of ill-repute somewhere in Dublin. ... Claudio and Isabella (1850) by William Holman Hunt Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, written in 1603. ... Scapin is an Italian company which has been hand-building bicycles for 42 years. ... Edward II is an Elizabethan play written by Christopher Marlowe. ... ELO Part II were an offshoot band formed by former Electric Light Orchestra drummer Bev Bevan. ... For the film, see Loves Labours Lost (2000 film). ... Arms and the Man is a comedy by G. Bernard Shaw. ... Oxford Playhouse production of The Way of the World; 13 to 17 April, 2004 The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. ... The Robber Bridegroom is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry and music by Robert Waldman. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Chekhov in a 1905 illustration. ...


In 1976, producer David Merrick hired LuPone as a replacement to play Genevieve, the title role of the troubled pre-Broadway original production The Baker’s Wife. The infamous production toured at length, but Merrick deemed it unworthy of Broadway and closed it out-of-town. David Merrick (November 27, 1911 - April 25, 2000) was an American theatrical producer and director, associated with both musicals and dramas, brilliant successes and embarrassing fl ops. ... The Bakers Wife is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein based on the film La Femme du Boulanger by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono. ...


Since 1977, LuPone has been a frequent collaborator with David Mamet, appearing in his plays The Woods (1977), All Men Are Whores (1977), The Blue Hour (1978) The Water Engine (1978), Edmond (1982), and The Old Neighborhood (Broadway, 1997). Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ... This article is about the film; for the Sleater-Kinney album, see The Woods (album). ... The Blue Hour is an upcoming film directed and written by Eric Nazarian. ... The Water Engine is a play by David Mamet. ... Edmond may refer to: Places in the United States: Edmond, Kansas Edmond, Oklahoma Edmonds, Washington People: Edmond de Goncourt Edmond James de Rothschild Edmond - the 1982 play by David Mamet. ...


In 1978, she appeared in the Broadway musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's Working. In 1979, LuPone achieved international acclaim and stardom for her phenomenal portrayal of Eva in the American Premiere of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita (1979), directed by Harold Prince. Her much-lauded, career-making performance earned LuPone a 1980 Tony Award for leading actress in a musical, among other honors. In 1983, founding alumni of The Acting Company reunited for an Off-Broadway revival of Marc Blitzstein's landmark labor musical The Cradle Will Rock, narrated by their teacher, John Houseman, with LuPone in the roles of Moll and Sister Mister. The successful production toured the United States, including an engagement at the Highland Park, Illinois' Ravinia Festival in 1984, and played London's West End, where LuPone received an 1985 Olivier Award. Louis Studs Terkel (born May 16, 1912) is an American author, historian and broadcaster. ... In physics, work is the energy transferred in applying force over a distance. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. ... Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award winning lyricist, author, radio presenter and television gameshow panelist. ... For other uses, see Evita (disambiguation). ... Hal Prince (born January 30, 1928), full name Harold Smith Prince, is a theatre producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical (and less notably, dramatic) productions of the past half-century. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... The Acting Company (Group 1 Acting Company) Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and current Producing Artistic Director Margot Harley with members of the first graduating class of Juilliards Drama Division, The Acting Company has performed over 100 plays for over 3 million people in 48 states and nine... Marc Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 – January 22, 1964) was an American composer. ... The 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein was originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project. ... John Houseman (September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born actor and film producer. ... Incorporated City in 1869. ... The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ...


In 1984, LuPone starred as Nancy in the short-lived Cameron Mackintosh revival of Lionel Bart's Oliver!. In 1984, she also created the role of "The Reporter" in Alexander H. Cohen's presentation of Dario Fo's absurdist play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, with Jonathan Pryce and Bill Irwin. Sir Cameron Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a successful British theatrical producer. ... Lionel Bart (1930-1999) was a British composer of songs musicals, best known for Oliver! Bart was born Lionel Begleiter in London to Galician Jews, and grew up in Stepney. ... This article is about the musical. ... This article is about the year. ... Alexander H. Cohen (July 24, 1920 - April 22, 2000) was a prolific American theatrical producer who mounted more than one hundred productions. ... Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. ... Absurdism is a philosophy stating that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail (and, hence, are absurd) because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to humanity. ... Accidental Death of an Anarchist is perhaps the best-known play by the Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo. ... Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor. ... Bill Irwin (born April 11, 1950, Santa Monica, California as William Irwin) is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. ...


In 1985, she created the part of Fantine in the Royal Shakespeare Company-Cameron Mackintosh production of the musical Les Misérables at the Barbican Theatre. In recognition of her Royal Shakespeare Company debut performance, LuPone was the first American (U.S.A.) actress to be presented with an Olivier Award. In 1987, LuPone returned to Broadway to star as Reno Sweeney in the hit Lincoln Center Theater revival of Anything Goes, and received a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Les Misérables (pronunciation ), colloquially known as Les Mis, is a musical composed in 1980 by French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg on a libretto by Alain Boublil. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company. ... The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Anything Goes (disambiguation). ...


In 1993, LuPone returned to the West End of London to create the role of Norma Desmond in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard at the Adelphi Theatre. LuPone was contracted to star in the 1994 Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard, but Webber breached the contract when he recast the role. LuPone sued Webber for reneging on the contract. The clear-cut case of breach of contract was settled out-of-court when Webber paid to LuPone the stipulated penalty for violating the contract. LuPone has joked that the payment funded the "Andrew Lloyd Webber memorial pool" that she built at her Connecticut home at the time. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Sunset Boulevard (1950 film). ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. ... Sunset Boulevard is a musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. ...


In 1995, LuPone returned to Broadway in a one-woman show, Patti LuPone on Broadway, at the Walter Kerr Theatre. For her work, LuPone received an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. In 1996, LuPone was selected by legendary producer Robert Whitehead to succeed his wife, the legendary Zoe Caldwell, in the Broadway production of Terrence McNally's play, Master Class. LuPone received rave reviews in New York, and took the play to the West End. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Begun during the 1949-1950 theater season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway. ... Robert Whitehead (January 3, 1823 - November 14, 1905), British engineer. ... Zoe Caldwell, OBE (September 14, 1933) is an Australian actress, born in Melbourne [1] during the Great Depression [2]. She has won four Tony Awards [3] for her performances on Broadway in Slapstick Tragedy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class, in which she portrayed opera singer... Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1939), is an American playwright. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre...


In November 2001, she starred in a Broadway revival of Noises Off, with Peter Gallagher and Faith Prince. Ms. LuPone has performed such New York concert productions of musicals as: the City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert! Pal Joey (1995), with Peter Gallagher and Bebe Neuwirth; the Lincoln Center Theater benefit performance of Annie Get Your Gun (1998) with Peter Gallagher; the New York Philharmonic performances of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2000) with George Hearn and Audra McDonald, which yielded the highly successful debut recording on its own label; the Lincoln Center Theater benefit performance of Anything Goes with Howard McGillin; theEncores! Can-Can (2004) with Michael Nouri; the New York Philharmonic Candide (2004) with Kristin Chenoweth and Paul Groves, broadcast live on PBS Television Great Performances; and the Jazz at Lincoln Center "American Songbook" series Passion (2005), with Michael Cerveris and Audra McDonald, also broadcast live on Great Performances. For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... Noises Off is a 1982 British play by Michael Frayn. ... Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. ... Faith Prince (born 5 August 1957) is an American actress. ... New York City Centers Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert has been performing since 1994. ... Pal Joey Studio cast album 1950 Pal Joey is a 1940 Broadway musical by American writer John OHara, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. ... Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. ... Bebe Neuwirth Beatrice Bebe Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American theater, television, and film actress. ... Annie Get Your Gun is a stage musical loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. ... For other uses, see Sweeney Todd (disambiguation). ... With Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd George Hearn (born June 18, 1934, in St. ... Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is a four-time Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ... For other uses, see Anything Goes (disambiguation). ... New York City Centers Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert has been performing since 1994. ... Can-Can is a 1953 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, with a book by Abe Burrows. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Candide is a comic operetta by Leonard Bernstein, based on the novella of the same name by Voltaire. ... Kristi Dawn Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. ... Paul Groves (born 1966) is an English footballer. ... Great Performances was a television series devoted to the performing arts which ran on the US television station PBS from 1972. ... Pasión es una obra musical que se estreno en Broadway en 1994, adaptada de la película de Ettore Scola Passione dAmore que, a su vez , se basa en la novela de Igino Tarchetti Fosca. Con libreto de James Lapine y música y letras de Stephen Sondheim. ... Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA) is a singer and actor. ... Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is a four-time Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ... Great Performances was a television series devoted to the performing arts which ran on the US television station PBS from 1972. ...


Since 2001, LuPone has been a regular presence at the Ravinia Festival. At Ravinia, she starred in a six-year-long series of concert presentations of Stephen Sondheim musicals begun in honor of his seventieth birthday. She was seen in Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2001), with George Hearn; A Little Night Music (2002), with George Hearn and Zoe Caldwell; Passion (2003), with Michael Cerveris and Audra McDonald; Sunday in the Park with George (2004), with Cerveris and McDonald; Anyone Can Whistle (2005), with Cerveris and McDonald; and Gypsy (2006), with Jessica Boevers. The Ravinia Festival is the summer music program offered at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Illinois. ... Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. ... Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical (also considered by many to be an English language opera due to the form and the construct of the show) with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. ... With Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd George Hearn (born June 18, 1934, in St. ... A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. ... Zoe Caldwell, OBE (September 14, 1933) is an Australian actress, born in Melbourne [1] during the Great Depression [2]. She has won four Tony Awards [3] for her performances on Broadway in Slapstick Tragedy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class, in which she portrayed opera singer... Pasión es una obra musical que se estreno en Broadway en 1994, adaptada de la película de Ettore Scola Passione dAmore que, a su vez , se basa en la novela de Igino Tarchetti Fosca. Con libreto de James Lapine y música y letras de Stephen Sondheim. ... Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA) is a singer and actor. ... Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is a four-time Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ... Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. ... Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ... Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ...


In 2005, LuPone starred as Mrs. Lovett in John Doyle’s new Broadway staging of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2005). She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance; and won the Golden Icon Award for Best Female Musical Theater Performance, presented by Travolta Family Entertainment.[3] In August 2006, Ms. LuPone took a three-week vacation from the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd in order to play Rose in Gypsy at the Ravinia Festival. John Doyle has been artistic director at several regional theatres in the United Kingdom, where he has staged more than 200 professional productions during a 30+ year career. ... For other uses, see Sweeney Todd (disambiguation). ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... For other uses, see Sweeney Todd (disambiguation). ... Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ...


LuPone’s success in the classical music world extend to Kennedy Center’s production of Regina; the world premiere of Jake Heggie's To Hell and Back, a performance she repeated at Ravinia in 2007; and the Los Angeles Opera's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny as Leokadia Begbick. The Kennedy Center as seen from the Potomac River. ... Regina is an opera by Marc Blitzstein, to his own libretto based on the play The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman. ... To Hell and Back is the second album by the progressive metal band Sinergy, it was released in the year of 2000. ... The Los Angeles Opera is a world-class opera company in Los Angeles, California. ... Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht. ...


Following the Ravinia Gypsy, LuPone and author Arthur Laurents mended a decade-long rift, and she was cast in the City Center Encores! Summer Stars production he directed. The July 2007 Off-Broadway production was an expansion into full mountings of popular Broadway musicals by the successful, fourteen-year-old Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert! series. Laurents directed LuPone's version of Gypsy: A Musical Fable for a 22 performance run (July 9, 2007 - July 29, 2007) at City Center. This production of Gypsy has transferred to Broadway, opening March 27, 2008 at the St. James Theatre. Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ... Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director. ... New York City Centers Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert has been performing since 1994. ... New York City Centers Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert has been performing since 1994. ... The St. ...


LuPone performs regularly across the country in her solo shows Matters of the Heart; Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda; and The Lady With the Torch, which sold out at Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. ...


Film & television work

Among LuPone’s film credits are Witness, Just Looking, The Victim, Summer of Sam, Driving Miss Daisy, King of Gypsies, 1941, 'Wise Guys, Nancy Savoca's 24 Hour Woman, Family Prayers, Bad Faith, and City By The Sea. She has also worked with legendary playwright David Mamet on several movies including , (The Water Engine, the critically acclaimed State and Main, and Heist). This article is about witnesses in law courts. ... Just Looking is an American feature film from the year 2000. ... The Victim is a novel by Saul Bellow published in 1947. ... Summer of Sam is a 1999 film about the Son of Sam serial murders. ... Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted into a 1989 Warner Bros. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... The Wise Guys are a popular a cappella group, from Germany. ... Nancy Savoca (July 23, 1959), is an American film screenwriter, director, and producer. ... For the term in existentialism, see Bad faith (existentialism). ... David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ... The Water Engine is a play by David Mamet. ... State and Main is a 2000 comedy film, directed by David Mamet, starring Alec Baldwin and Philip Seymour Hoffman. ... Heist poster Heist is a crime thriller written and directed by David Mamet, and released in November 2001. ...


LuPone played Libby Thatcher on the television drama Life Goes On, which ran on ABC from 1989 to 1993. She has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award for the TV movie The Song Spinner, and her guest appearance on Frasier. LuPone’s further TV career includes a recurring spot on the last season of HBO’s hit series Oz. She had a cameo as herself on a 1998 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Kelsey Grammer. She also played herself in an episode of Will and Grace entitled "BullyWoolley" (2005). She also appeared on the series Ugly Betty in 2007 as the mother of Mark St. James (played by Michael Urie). Known for her range and versatility, she played Lady Bird Johnson in the TV movie, LBJ. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. ... An Emmy Award. ... Frasier is an American sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane. ... Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series 56 episodes. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the American television series. ... Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955 in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) is a six-time Emmy and a two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor who is best known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane, whom he played for nine years on Cheers... Will & Grace is an American television situation comedy focusing on Will Truman, a gay attorney and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm. ... Ugly Betty is a Emmy-winning[1] American television comedy-drama series starring America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Rebecca Romijn and Vanessa Williams. ... Michael Lorenzo Urie (born August 8, 1980) is an actor, producer and director. ... Claudia Alta Lady Bird Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007)[1] was a First Lady of the United States, having been the wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. ...


Recordings

LuPone recorded a duet with Seth MacFarlane (in character as Glenn Quagmire) on the 2005 album Family Guy: Live In Vegas. LuPone released a new CD in 2006, of one of her shows The Lady with the Torch, on Sh-K-Boom Records. In December she released bonus tracks for that CD only available on iTunes and the Sh-K-Boom website. Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is a two-time Emmy-winning American animator, screenwriter, producer, actor, comedian and voice actor. ... Glenn Quagmire (sometimes spelled Glen) is a character on the animated series Family Guy, best known for his sexual deviancy. ... Sh-K-Boom Records is a record label, a producer of recorded and live entertainment, and an interactive community at www. ...


Selected recordings include:

  • The Baker’s Wife (Original cast recording)
  • Evita (Original Broadway cast recording)
  • The Cradle Will Rock (The Acting Company recording)
  • Les Miserables (Royal Shakespeare Company recording)
  • Anything Goes (Lincoln Center Theater recording)
  • Heat Wave (John Mauceri conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra)
  • Patti LuPone Live (Solo Album)
  • Sunset Boulevard (World premiere/original London cast recording)
  • Matters of the Heart (Solo Album)
  • Sweeney Todd (New York Philharmonic recording)
  • Sweeney Todd (2005 Broadway Cast recording)
  • The Lady with the Torch (Solo Album)
  • The Lady With the Torch...Still Burning (Solo Album)
  • To Hell and Back (Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra World Premier recording)
Awards
Preceded by
Angela Lansbury
in Sweeney Todd
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical
1979-1980
for Evita
Succeeded by
Lena Horne
in Lena Horne, The Lady and Her Music
Preceded by
Angela Lansbury
in Sweeney Todd
Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
1980
for Evita
Succeeded by
Lauren Bacall
in Woman of the Year

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References

  1. ^ Patti LuPone Biography (1949-)
  2. ^ Sex & Moxie: God, That's Good!
  3. ^ "Patti LuPone & D'Monroe Among Travolta Family Award Winners", Broadway World, 2007-12-20. Retrieved on 2007-12-21. 

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Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Patti LuPone | PBS (391 words)
In 1985, LuPone moved to London and appeared first in "The Cradle Will Rock." In the same year, she became the first American actress and singer to gain a principal role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the hit musical "Les Misérables." The names of both shows appeared on her 1985 Laurence Olivier Award.
LuPone made her stage debut, tap dancing, at the age of four.
In the late '80s and early '90s LuPone had a major role in the popular U.S. situation comedy LIFE GOES ON, and experienced some difficulty breaking free from her contract when the call came from Lloyd Webber.
Patti LuPone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1026 words)
Patti LuPone (born April 21, 1949 in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress.
Patti's theatrical Mamet credits include The Woods (1977), All Men Are Whores (1977), The Blue Hour (1978) The Water Engine (1978), Edmund (1982), and The Old Neighborhood (1997) for which she recieved a Drama Desk Award Nomination.
LuPone was nominated for a Tony Award for this role.
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