I’m going to see Patti LuPone in “Company” tonight!

You've been watching OBC clips but decided to link to a non OBC clip. Hmm.

Wrong!!!

Take some photos and post them for us. I'm sure Patti won't mind.

She made fun of me!

She’s a braying cunt. Enjoy listening to her shit all over Sondheim.

I'm with r3. If you take some photos of Patti with your cell phone while she performs, I can promise you you will not be bored.

You’ve been Patti LuPWNd!

I don’t get her, all she does is shriek.

OP’s performance of Ladies Who Lunch is sublime…

Here's an idea, OP -- if you're that concerned, DON'T GO. I doubt Miss LuPone or anyone else in the world would give a fuck.

No. It would be a BETRAYAL!

It was pretty good. “Ladies Who Lunch” was really restrained and well done.

The audience was like an episode of “Good Times”: thunderous applause after every song and sassing back when Patti did something (or anything).

And the ladies next to us raised their cocktails and tried to stand up at “I’d like to propose a toast”.

It must’ve been something to see in the 70s, before it became a religious service.

Her performance here is so lame. She's like a lamp post with a siren as a head.

She's still alive? Seriously; I thought she died a few years ago.

Has this foul-mouthed woman had a stroke?

Yes, R15 a stroke of luck. She's still alive.

And I'll bury every one of you pointless bitches!

Company is a pointless show

That’s sort of the point. R18.

Given what a nasty, abrasive, shrill and petty bitch LuPony has always been I am surprised she has never been run over by someone or had a Mafia contract out on her.

[quote]We’ve been watching clips of the original Broadway cast, so I’m prepared for crushing disappointment!

There aren't any clips of the original Broadway cast, other than the Pennebaker documentary about the recording of the cast album. Not even any B roll, which didn't exist back then.

All we have of the original staging is a very blurry, grainy, B&W boot of the last stop of the original national tour in DC. The tour at that point had abandoned the original hydraulic sets and had been through many cast changes.

There used to be a few clips from that national tour boot on youtube but that was several years ago and I have no idea whether they are still there. To paraphrase Dorothy, things come and go so quickly there.

Was Stritch bitter about not having won a Tony for her most remembered performance?

Were they selling t-shirts in the lobby that read, "I Went to See Patti LuPone in Company and all I Got was COVID", OP?

What do we say, is she a shoe in for Best Supporting for the Tony this year?

"If you toss flowers on stage, do not aim them at Miss LuPone's head."

Hope you have hearing impaired headphones. It's the only way you'll understand a word of what this bitch sings.

[quote]And the ladies next to us raised their cocktails and tried to stand up at “I’d like to propose a toast”.

What is this, dinner theater?

There are home movies of Broadway shows as far as we know going back to the original Pal Joey. We even have Follies! It really is terrible that we have nothing of the original Broadway Company. It was a great production and it's too bad nobody shot any of it with a home movie camera. Even in '81 the original Merrily on video looks a million times worse than Pal Joey. And I'm not speaking of the quality of the show but the quality of the image.

By the way I didn't know it existed but Money to Burn from the original Broadway production of Sixpence is on youtube.

[quote] It really is terrible that we have nothing of the original Broadway Company.

We have the documentary of the recording of the cast album. We also have the original cast doing the concert version.

The Library of Performing Arts also has the 1972 national tour filmed in Washington DC, albeit only Donna McKechnie from the original cast. But it does include Joy Franz and Julie Wilson.

Was Company ever planned for the big screen? Dean Jones left early but I doubt he would have turned down a movie and he had the profile for one at that time. Stritch would have been replaced of course.

You need to read the Hello Dolly thread, R31.

Who would have done Joanne in the movie. Anne Bancroft?

There would never have been a movie since musicals were out.

I, yes I'm old, saw the original B'way production. This one is like watching a Kindergarten play in comparison.

LuPone plays Lupone in everything I"ve ever seen her in, even an old episode of Fraiser.

I always remember the Datalounge poster who said her performance of "An Old-Fashioned Wedding" with Peter Gallagher on some daytime TV show made it sound like she was singing, "I want a wedding that's HONK HONK with HONK HONK and HONK HONK!"

I saw a 2010 version on Broadway that NEEDED a star like Patti LuPone.

r37, was that the version with Raul Esparza?

Does the show have senior citizen discounts?