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To some, he’s the Tony Award-winning revolutionary from Evita who grew into a bonafide Broadway star in Sunday in the Park with George. To others, he’s the Emmy Award–winning Best Actor, for his portrayal of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger in “Chicago Hope.” And to others still, he will always be the man whose name is Inigo Montoya, the swashbuckling swordsman in The Princess Bride.

Touring since 1989, Mandy’s concert repertoire has expanded to include four different shows.

Mandy Patinkin in Concert with Paul Ford on Piano

Whichever role you know him for, Mandy’s favorite is reaching out to live audiences with the power and the passion of popular song. He belongs to the special breed of singer who doesn’t merely dramatize songs, but incorporates them into his very being. And the result, Mandy Patinkin In Concert, is nothing short of electrifying. His interpretations of popular standards, superbly accompanied by Paul Ford at the piano, come straight from the heart, mesmerizing audiences from coast to coast. From Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim, Harry Chapin, and back to Irving Berlin and Cole Porter.

“Mandy Patinkin is in the business of showstopping,” raves The New Yorker. “He is a musical force of nature!”

Paul Ford was the original pianist for the Broadway productions of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion, Assassins and most recently the revival of Pacific Overtures and the Tony award winning revival of Assassins. His other Broadway credits include: Curtains, 110 in the Shade (revival), Tom Sawyer, High Society, The Rink, Rags, A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine, The Secret Garden and Falsettos. Mr. Ford was the pianist for the acclaimed Follies concert at Lincoln Center, the Carnegie Hall concert performances of A Sondheim Tribute, Anyone Can Whistle, and A Little Night Music with the Philadelphia Symphony, Gypsy with Patti LuPone and the Chicago Symphony, and episodes of PBS’ ‘My Favorite Broadway,’ all under the baton of Paul Gemignani. He accompanied Mr. Patinkin in Mandy Patinkin: Dress Casual at the Public Theatre and on Broadway in Mamaloshen and Celebrating Sondheim, and continues to work with him on all of his recordings and national/international tours.

Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Mamaloshen

With Paul Ford on Piano

Mandy’s concert Mamaloshen, which translates “Mother Tongue,” is his most personal musical project, which he debuted in a sold–out Off–Broadway engagement in 1998. It was later recorded and followed by an acclaimed Broadway run. Mamaloshen is a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish.

“The thread Mr. Patinkin uses to connect a dozen or so Yiddish songs is Paul Simon’s 1973 ballad, ‘American Tune’. He recognizes it as a song about the immigrant experience, breaking it into fragments that become chapter headings in a program that includes a playful children’s song, and a searing Holocaust song. As deconstructed by Mr. Patinkin, ‘American Tune’ becomes a surreal reflection in which he travels through time and has a series of visionary flashes that suggest the images and colors of a Chagall painting.” Stephen Holden – The New York Times

Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Celebrating Sondheim

With Paul Ford on Piano

Debuting at Philadelphia’s Prince Music Theater in 2002 and later performed on Broadway the same year, Celebrating Sondheim is a figurative journey through Sondheim’s music and lyrics.

As described by Douglas J. Keating of the Philadelphia Inquirer, “The concert program …is named Celebrating Sondheim, but [Mr. Patinkin] gives those who see it cause for double celebration. Not only will an audience gain a deep – or deeper – appreciation of the genius of Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist responsible for so many landmark musicals over the last four decades, but it also will leave the show hailing the talents of the man who performs it. The concert is an impressive marriage of some of the most complex, perceptive, yet emotionally revealing songs written for the theater, presented by one of the theater’s best singers. The double display of talent is impressive.”

An Evening with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin

Finally appearing together again after their Tony Award® winning performances in Evita, Patti LuPone joins Mandy onstage for An Evening with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin.

Purchase tickets for October performances in Philadelphia, PA at The Prince Theater.

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin are two of Broadway’s most venerated performers, having both won a Tony Award® for their performances in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s groundbreaking Evita in 1980. Since then they have both starred in film, television, the concert stage and back to Broadway. An Evening with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin brings them together again – at last. "…this show of their own invention gives them plenty of opportunity to dazzle," raves Lawson Taitte of The Dallas Morning News. “Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim divide the honors as the show’s principal composers, though there were tunes by songwriters as diverse as Vernon Duke and Antonio Carlos Jobim. But no melody was sung for its own sake. Everything had a dramatic context, however momentary, and was acted full force. You had to laugh. You had to cry. Mr. Patinkin promised he and Miss LuPone would be doing this show for the rest of their lives. We can only hope so.”

The show is choreographed by fellow Broadway veteran and friend, Ann Reinking, who won a Best Choreography Tony Award® for the revival of Chicago. An Evening with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin is accompanied on piano by Mandy Patinkin’s longtime pianist, Paul Ford.

Patti LuPone is best known for playing the title character in Evita, winning a 1980 Tony and Drama Desk award in the process. Patti was the first American actress to receive the Olivier award in 1985 for her performances in Les Miserable, and The Cradle Will Rock. Her other musical roles have included the hit revival of Sweeney Todd, Patti LuPone on Broadway, earning an Outer Critics Circle Award, Anything Goes, winning a 1988 Drama Desk award, Miss Ziegfield, garnering a 1997 Outer Critics Circle award, Pal Joey, Sunset Boulevard, Oliver!, Working and The Robber Bridegroom.

In plays, Patti has appeared with John Houseman’s The Acting Company in The School for Scandal, The Three Sisters, The Lower Depths, The Beggar’s Opera, Next Time I’ll Sing To You, The Time of Your Life, and Edward II; in David Mamet’s The Water Engine, The Old Neighborhood, Edmond, The Woods, and All Men Are Whores; Terence McNally’s Master Class, Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of An Anarchist, Israel Horovitz’s Stage Directions, Stewart Parker’s Catchpenny Twist, As You Like It, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Noises Off.

On film, Patti has been seen in City by the Sea, Heist, State and Main, Driving Miss Daisy, Witness, and 1941. Television credits include “An Evening With Patti LuPone,” “Life Goes On,” “Law & Order,” “Her Last Chance,” “The Song Spinner,” “The Water Engine,” “L.B.J.,” “Theatre In America,” and “Remember WENN.”