Tag Archives: Patti Lupone

One Day More: Broadway Celebrates In Song [VIDEO]

Rolling Stone reports: James Corden links up with Broadway stars Joshua Grosso, Jillian Butler, Emily Bautista, Kyle Scatliffe, Shuler Hensley, Patti LuPone and Matt Lucas to celebrate only “One Day More” of outgoing president Trump in a Les Misérables parody that aired on Tuesday’s The Late Late Show. In the visual, Corden heads into work, happy to have his “last …

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Randy Rainbow & Patti LuPone: “If Donald Got Fired”

YouTube star Randy Rainbow is back today with his special guest, Broadway legend Patti LuPone. The pair team up to blast Trump and his sycophants with a parody of Stephen Sondheim’s “If Mama Was Married” from the 1959 musical Gypsy. LuPone won the Tony Award in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, making national news on the show’s closing night when …

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Patti LuPone Electrifies At The Grammys [VIDEO]

Entertainment Weekly reports: The Grammys got its own dose of musical theater last night. Tony Award-winners and Broadway stars Patti LuPone and Ben Platt took to the Madison Square Garden stage at the 2018 Grammy Awards Sunday evening to perform a tribute to composers Andrew Lloyd Webber and Leonard Bernstein. Platt, 24, took up the Bernstein portion of the tribute, …

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Patti Lupone Recreates Phone-Snatch

Lupone talked to the New York Times: “This woman — a very pretty young woman — was sitting with her boyfriend or husband. We could see her text. She was so uninterested. She showed her husband what she was texting. We talked about it at intermission. When we went out for the second act I was very close to her, …

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Do Not Mess With Ms. Lupone

Broadway World reports: According to Broadway World’s astute message board posters, the trouble began at the show’s matinee performance, which Auggie 27 described as ‘Cell Phone Hell.’ The post reads: “The SECOND ACT of the “Shows for Days” matinee today was besieged with cell phone ringing, first one long unanswered call that threatened to ring for the rest of the …

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Broadway Friday

-New attitude! Patti Labelle will join the cast of the Tony-winning Fela! on September 14th and will perform there until the show’s scheduled closing in January. She will replace Tony winner Lilias White in the role of Fela’s mother. -A Broadway version of Glee will definitely happen, according to the show’s co-creator Ryan Murphy, who says he is already auditioning …

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Broadway Friday

-Sexy space stud Patrick Stewart returns to Broadway next season in David Mamet’s A Life InThe Theater. Engage! -Despite many rave reviews for Little Miss Sunshine’s Abagail Breslin, the revival of The Miracle Worker closes on Sunday after only 38 performances. -Musical Everyday Rapture will replace Lips Together, Teeth Apart which was torpedoed when lead Megan Mullally walked out. Opens …

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Show Queen Alert!

The grand dame of Broadway, Patti Lupone, will make a “surprise” appearance at Splash tonight at 9pm. Lupone will be introduced by Michael Urie, who plays her son on Ugly Betty. Lupone is promoting her new CD, Patti LuPone at Les Mouches, which is a live cabaret act she did at gay disco Les Mouches in Chelsea in 1980, every …

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