When I turned my phone on after seeing Strawdog’s The Conquest of the South Pole last night, a text popped through. It was a message from my dear friend Jamie, which simply read, “Arthur Laurents died!” I did a quick search, which wasn’t hard as many of my friends were twittering and facebooking links to [...]
Patti LuPone on Barbara Streisand in ‘Gypsy’
Ah, Patti LuPone — always one with a colorful quote. To add to this list, here’s what the Broadway diva had to say in a recent Q&A about Streisand starring in an on-again/off-again movie adaptation of Gypsy, a show for which LuPone won the 2008 Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award: Any thoughts on [...]
Patti LuPone will get you sh*tfaced
Yesterday, Broadway diva Patti LuPone was honored by The Drama League for, basically, being Patti LuPone. Fancy Broadway types, socialites (and the lovely SarahB, who volunteered at the event and blogged about it here) came together to honor the bawdy belter. New York magazine recently asked some of the attendees to share their favorite “meeting [...]
Saturday morning
A typical Saturday morning in the Bullen-Karpo household. Coffee in a homemade mug and HGTV: A step outside on the patio, to be greeted by an uninvited guest (I can’t believe I took this picture): It’s like the Battle of Gettysburg around here: Gator playing around with Google Sites: Alley, unamused:
Scary good 16 year old kills ‘Rose’s Turn’
Blah, blah, blah Tony Awards noms announced today; Million Dollar Quartet beats The Addams Family for Best Musical slot. But! I’ve something more exciting to talk about: the discovery of a new star. Ah, yes. Momma Rose. That role every musical theatre actress worth her salt yearns to perform some day. It’s the King Lear [...]
Hitler on Patti LuPone and Gypsy
I don’t know who made this, but I want to hug them. And then slap them. And then hug them.
Gypsy: a photo diary
New York magazine has posted some fantastic photos from the final performance of Gypsy – pre-stage, backstage, onstage, post-stage. View here.
So, tonight is the final performance of Gypsy
Yes, we’ve already covered this. However, some dear friends went to last night’s performance, and Patti stopped the show. Literally. To throw out a photo taker. During the show’s climax, Rose’s Turn. Talk about a diva who knows how to make a point! SarahB was there, and reported on it here. Let’s hope tonight’s performance [...]
The end of an era.
Over three years ago, just six days shy of my 26th birthday, Playbill.com announced that Patti LuPone would be starring in a weekend-long concert production of Gypsy, backed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, concluding the Ravina Festival’s 2006 summer season. This was mind-blowing news. LuPone was never supposed to play Rose. It wasn’t in her [...]
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