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Happy 65th Birthday to the great Patti LuPone!

The force of nature that is Broadway legend Patti LuPone is still going strong as she reaches her 65th birthday today.

That powerful voice is still intact and thrilling audiences.

So many highs in career so far starting with originating the role of Evita on Broadway (Tony win), of Fantine in Les Miserables (Olivier Award win) and of Normal Desmond in Sunset Boulevard – the latter two on London’s West End.

Then there were the revivals she triumphed in – Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes (Tony nod), Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Tony nod) and Mama Rose in Gypsy (Tony win).

Miss LuPone also took over for Zoe Caldwell in the original Broadway production of Master Class and also took the show to London. That happened to be the first Broadway show I’d ever seen during my first visit to NYC in 1996 and Miss LuPone was sensational.

She has an ego to match the talent which makes me love her all the more. I read her autobiography 3-4 years ago and it is a doozy – she does not pull punches.

Here are some random LuPone videos.

Enjoy!




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  1. NO WAYYYYY she is 65!!!!!! I could swear it was just a couple years ago I was working with her on the movie 1941 and then a few months later she helped me get tickets to the opening of Evita on Broadway and then again when it was here in LA. I must be losing it…faster then I want it to….where the hell has the time gone???! It was also at that time I was putting tons of dimes (calling my agent and manager 5 times a day, trying to keep it under 3 minutes) in one of the hundreds of phone booths at the Warner Brothers Studios (at that time called the Burbank studios cause they shared it with Coke a Cola owned Columbia Pictures). Today I think there is one pay phone on the lot and NO sound free stage phones with the blinking light where, I use to make my TOLL (look it up) and long distance calls on different empty stages I snuck on to. OHHHH they were good good times…

  2. April 21st, 2014 at 3:51 pm
    Gaspar Marino says:

    Happy Birthday To A Great Talent Who Only Gets Better With Age !!!!!

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