Afternoon Diva Break: Patti Lupone - "Buenos Aires" (Evita)

Mama Rose Over The Years

My fave? LuPone, of course.


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Afternoon Lupone Break: "The Ladies Who Lunch"

Happy Birthday To A Diva

I'd like to extend very happy birthday wishes to Broadway legend, memorable Will & Grace guest star, and Corky's mom - Patti LuPone. To celebrate, let's enjoy Miss LuPone in her 2008 performance of Everything's Coming Up Roses from the Tony Awards. THIS, my darling DustBunnies, is what they mean when they refer to someone as a STAR...

Are There NO Homosexuals Working At Twitter ?

BREAKING: Broadway diva and gay icon Patti LuPone went unrecognized and was dissed at Twitter's corporate headquarters in SAN FRANCISCO!

From SFist:

Musical star-actress-memoirist Patti LuPone, who appeared in San Francisco last week, took advantage of the visit to drop in on the offices of Twitter. A stranger impersonating LuPone had established a Twitter account, she said, and was sending out messages purportedly from her. LuPone and her people had tried to address this through the website, but found themselves unable to hack through the electronic briars; hence the personal visit. 

The Twitter receptionist - apparently not knowing who LuPone is - wasn't exactly helpful, said LuPone's publicist, Philip Rinaldi. In fact, she seemed to LuPone so unhelpful that LuPone became visibly impatient. At that point, the receptionist threatened to call security.

First question: Is that receptionist still alive? Patti LuPone DOES NOT PLAY.

Second question: In the name of Judy Garland and all that is Holy - ARE THERE NO HOMOSEXUALS AT THE SAN FRAN-FRIGGIN-CISCO OFFICES OF TWITTER?!?!???

Third question: Assuming there was at least one card-carrying, showtune-loving, Sunday brunch-having 'Friend of Dorothy' in that building - why didn't Miss LuPone have him called to the front? I'm sure she's used the "I DEMAND TO SEE A GAY!" trick before.

All it would have taken was one GAY GASP of recognition from a certified Queen, and the problem would have been solved immediately.

Story developing...

Thanks to DustBunny Kailyn for sending this in.

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Patti LuPone in Talks to Star in "Hello Dolly!"

That sound you just heard was the collective squeals of a thousand Broadway Queens reacting to the news that Patti LuPone is in talks to star in a Broadway revival of Hello Dolly!. ZOMG!!!!

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Patti LuPone - Rainbow High

Here is a grainy video of Patti LuPone performing Rainbow High from the musical Evita circa 1980. As I mentioned earlier, even though I only had the cast album and never saw it onstage, I choreographed an imaginary drag routine to this song by the time I was 13. A routine, I might add, that has yet to be performed in front of an audience.

Maybe during DDBW III???...

You've Been Patti LuPWNed!

Patti Lupone recently went off on a picture-taking audience member during a performance of Gypsy. Luckily, another member of the audience was making a bootleg audio recording of the performance, and caught everything on tape. Don't mess with a DIVA.

Gay Brains and Musicals

Doug at the fantastic and eclectic blog Unnatural Devotions (NSFW) posted a clip of Patti Lupone performing “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from Gypsy at the Tony Awards – and it made my gay ass happy. There is just something about Patti Lupone performing in a Broadway musical that just makes a queen smile. See Lupone’s performance here (totally SFW, obvs.)

Recently, the results of a study were published showing that gay men’s brains were wired a certain way – more similar to straight women than to other men. Part of that “gay wiring” HAS to be the love of a Diva in a musical.

Of course, there is always going to be the random butch queer who’ll say “I don’t enjoy that faggy stuff” – but SEE if they don’t start lip synching to Jennifer Holiday performing “And I’m Telling You, I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls. It’s IMPOSSIBLE for us NOT to (including the exclamation of “HA HA!” – as in “I’m not wakin’ up tomorrow morning, HA HA!, and findin’ that there’s nobody’s there!!!...”.


To all mothers out there – here is a way to test your young sons to see if they’re gay or not. Make them sit down and watch the Patti Lupone clip. If your son picks his nose while watching, and then grabs some milk from the fridge (drinking it right out of the container) on his way out the door to play some sport, then he’s probably straight. But if Junior suggests alternate staging for Lupone and has wardrobe suggestions for her co-stars – then get that queen to drama camp! The latter also means you’ll have someone to go shopping with for the rest of your life.