PhotosPhoto Archive: From Eva to Momma; Celebrating Patti LuPone's Legendary Stage Career... So FarOlivier and two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone, who will star as a headstrong community theatre diva in the June Off-Broadway world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's semi-autobiographical play Shows for Days, returns to the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below April 2. Playbill.com offers a look back at some of LuPone's stage highlights spanning 40 years.
LuPone has starred in the world premieres of Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, as well as productions of Anything Goes, Oliver!, Working, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class, The Cradle Will Rock, Sweeney Todd and Pal Joey. She earned her first Tony Award, for Evita, in 1980, and her 2nd for the 2008 revival of Gypsy.
Next year, Carnegie Hall's house band will perform Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, unfinished works by Schubert, and the final concert of Conductor Bernard Labadie.