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Finally appearing together again after their Tony Award® winning performances in Evita, Patti LuPone joins Mandy onstage for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin.
An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
Two legendary Broadway stars. A once-in-
a-lifetime theatrical event. An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin reunites these Tony Award®-winning virtuosos (and lifelong friends) for the first time since Evita. Much more than a concert, this is a unique musical love story told entirely through a masterful selection of the greatest songs ever written for the stage. Funny, passionate, intimate and utterly unforgettable, this is An Evening no fan of musical theatre — or two of the most acclaimed performers of our time — can afford to miss. "…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 and Mandy Patinkin is accompanied on piano by Mandy Patinkin’s longtime pianist, Paul Ford.
PATTI LuPONE recently won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Performance of the Season for her performance as Madame Rose in the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Gypsy. Her most recent stage credits include her debut with the Los Angeles Opera in Weill-Brecht’s Mahagonny; the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s opera To Hell and Back with San Francisco’s Baroque Philharmonia Orchestra; Mrs. Lovett in the Broadway production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre); the title role in Marc Blitzstein’s Regina; a musical version of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Kennedy Center; a critically acclaimed performance as Fosca in a concert version of Sondheim’s Passion, which was also broadcast on PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center; and a multi-city tour of her theatrical concert Matters of the Heart.
Her other recent New York stage appearances include the City Center Encores! production of Can-Can; the NY Philharmonic’s productions of Candide and Sweeney Todd (NY Phil debut); and performances on Broadway in Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood, Terrence McNally’s Master Class, in her own concert Patti LuPone On Broadway, and three sold-out solo concerts at Carnegie Hall.
A graduate of the first class of the Drama Division of New York’s Juilliard School and a founding member of John Houseman’s The Acting Company, her subsequent New York credits include Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of An Anarchist; David Mamet’s The Water Engine, Edmond and The Woods; Israel Horovitz’ Stage Directions; and performances in the musicals Pal Joey for City Center Encores!, Anything Goes, The Cradle Will Rock, Oliver!, Evita (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Actress in a Musical), Working and The Robber Bridegroom.
In London, she won the Olivier Award for her performances as Fantine in the original production of Les Miserables and in the Acting Company production of The Cradle Will Rock. She also created the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and recreated her Broadway performance of Maria Callas in Master Class.
Films include City By The Sea, David Mamet’s Heist and State and Main, Summer of Sam, Driving Miss Daisy and Witness.
TV includes 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, NBC’s Will & Grace (as herself), the Emmy Award winning PBS broadcasts of Passion and Sweeney Todd, PBS Great Performances’ Candide, Oz, the TNT film Monday Night Mayhem, Frasier (1998 Emmy nomination), Law & Order, An Evening with Patti LuPone (PBS) and ABC’s Life Goes On.
Recordings include the 2008 Broadway cast recording of Gypsy, The Lady With the Torch, Sweeney Todd, Matters of the Heart, Pal Joey, Heatwave with John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Sunset Boulevard, and Patti LuPone Live. www.pattilupone.net