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Overview

“I have been incredibly fortunate over the course of my career to have been associated with some extraordinary dramatic and musical productions, and also some rather spectacular disasters. Looking back, I can find gifts and life lessons in every one.”

The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.

With nearly 100 photographs, including an 8-page four-color insert, and illuminating details about the life of a working actor, from inspired costars and demanding directors to her distinct perspective on how she developed and honed her Tony Award–winning performances, Patti LuPone: A Memoir is as inspirational as it is entertaining. And though the title might say “a memoir,” this is ultimately a love letter to the theatre by a unique American artist.

Raised on Long Island’s North Shore, Patti discovered her calling at the age of four and knew that she was destined for the stage. A prodigiously gifted child, she was one of only 36 young actors chosen for the inaugural class of The Juilliard School’s Drama Division, where she fought near-constant criticism from her instructors, and here describes those early years with disarming frankness.

From the heady days of her early twenties—crisscrossing the country as a founding member of the classical repertory theatre ensemble, The Acting Company--to her early success on Broadway, her four-year stint as Libby Thacher on the television series Life Goes On, her loving marriage to Matt Johnston, and much, much more, Patti chronicles her professional and personal life with inimitable candor and wit.
 
With its insightful retrospective of her career-defining turns, both on Broadway and abroad, in Evita, Les Misérables, Anything Goes, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, and Gypsy, Patti LuPone: A Memoir reveals the artist’s deeply felt passion for music and the theatre and is, in the end, the compelling and quintessential tale of an exceptional life well lived.

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Broadway legend LuPone, a five-time Tony nominee and two-time Tony winner, raises the curtain on her life and career in this engaging memoir. Detailing both her travails and her triumphs, she takes the reader on a guided tour recalling some memorable moments in musical theater. She began in her teens when she and her twin brothers performed on Long Island as the LuPone Trio. On a 1968 scholarship at John Houseman's Juilliard Drama Division, she was "overwhelmed with fear," but then toured with Houseman's Acting Company from 1972 to 1976. After her 1973 Broadway debut in Three Sisters came a parade of awards and acclaimed performances (Evita, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy), solo concerts, films (Driving Miss Daisy), TV (Oz, 30 Rock), recordings, and her one-woman show, Patti LuPone on Broadway . LuPone is the ultimate backstage gossip, and she never pulls her punches: During the ill-fated Baker's Wife, she despised actor Chaim Topol ("an asshole") and had little enthusiasm for his replacement, Paul Sorvino (‘'like having Howdy Doody at Auschwitz"). With razor-sharp memories and hundreds of colorful anecdotes, LuPone knows how to capture an audience. She makes an easy transition from stage to page, writing with wit, flamboyant energy, and a theatrical flair. (Sep. 14)
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Though LuPone originated the role of Evita on Broadway and has starred in countless shows (e.g., Les Misérables; Sunset Boulevard) and won many awards (she swept the theater awards in 2008 for her version of Mama Rose in Gypsy), she is probably better known to general audiences for her television role as the mother in Life Goes On during the 1990s. She is a household name in theater circles, but major stardom has eluded her. She candidly recounts her life (she had a long-term relationship with actor Kevin Kline) and career and the struggles she endured as she was passed over for many lead roles. She comes across as feisty and opinionated, and she admits that playing Evita "gave me a reputation and a shadow of controversy that has followed me to this day." VERDICT This honest look at the trials and tribulations of making it as a Broadway star will be of interest to aspiring actors and those who love musical theater.—Rosellen Brewer, Sno-Isle Libs., Marysville, WA
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Patti LuPone: A Memoir…represents no dazzling literary feat…although the workmanlike prose is enlivened with zesty infusions of gum-chewing New York humor…But nobody reads showbiz autobiographies to discover the next Proust. If a book rings true and shovels a sufficiency of dirt, revealing the pain and grit without quite dousing the glamour, we are satisfied. On both scores Ms. LuPone's book delivers. She comes across as a straight talker, a tireless worker and an occasional tantrum thrower and Valium taker.
—The New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307460738
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 9/14/2010
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 373,904
  • Product dimensions: 9.80 (w) x 11.28 (h) x 1.19 (d)

Meet the Author

Patti LuPone
PATTI LuPONE swept the 2008 theater awards winning the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Rose in the critically acclaimed Broadway production of the classic musical Gypsy. LuPone has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award, has won two Grammy awards, and has numerous film, television, and on- and off-Broadway stage credits to her name. A five-time Tony nominee and two-time winner, LuPone was the first American actor to win Britain’s Olivier Award.

Table of Contents

Prologue Opening Night, Gypsy 1

Broadway, 2008

1 Northport, Long Island 11

1949-1968

2 The Audition 25

New York City, 1968

3 The Making of an Actor 31

Juilliard, 1968-1972

4 The Acting Company 51

1972-1976

5 The Baker's Wife, or Hitler's Road Show 71

1976

6 David Mamet and Me 91

7 Evita, Part 1 103

Audition and Out of Town, 1979

8 Evita, Part 2 127

New York and Sydney, 1979-1981

9 A Working Actor, Part 1 145

1952-1985

10 The Cradle Will Rock, Les Miserables, LBJ, A Sicilian in Sicily 161

1985-1987

11 Anything Goes, Driving Miss Daisy, Life Goes On, A New Life 185

1987-1992

12 Sunset Boulevard, Part 1 203

September 1992-July 1993

13 Sunset Boulevard, Part 2 223

July 1993-March 1994

14 A Working Actor, Part 2 247

1994-2000

15 Several Sweeney Todds, and Sondheim 263

2000, 2001, 2005

16 Gypsy 281

Ravinia, August 2006-Encoresi, July 2007

17 Gypsy 293

Broadway, February 2008-January 2009

Epilogue Closing Night, Gypsy 307

Broadway, January 2009

Coda 313

Acknowledgments 317

Index 319

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    Whether you're a dedicated fan or have just a passing interest in show business stories, this book is one that will not soon be forgotten. It is a generous show of a gratitude for successes, a bitter meditation on regret, an honest examination of ego and shortfalls of confidence, and a spectacular story of defying odds and critics to get to the top. The conversational way that it's written allows the reader to tear through it like a mystery novel with huge anticipation to find out what's coming on the next page. This is a book I will never forget.

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  • Posted February 18, 2011

    it's pure Patti and it doesn't get any better!

    What a great ride this book is! A classy lady and inspiration to anyone who ever thinks 'It's not worth ir'. Patti proves that if you love what you do, even so great a poobah aa ALW can't ran outyour parade. I wiah there waa a sequel.

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    Inside A Diva's Mind

    I read this book right after finishing Kristin Chenowith's autobiography, and these two ladies are in the same profession but are totally different. And the thing that hit me is how Patti comes off as a total theater diva and has no qualms about it. A fascinating read about a powerful name in entertainment.

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