AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN Begins Performances Tonight

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin reunite on Broadway for AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN. Two Broadway legends who first appeared together giving Tony Award winning performances in Evita, will bring their critically acclaimed theatre concert to the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) for 63 performances only beginning today at 8pm through Friday, January 13. Opening night is set for Monday, November 21.

Much more than a concert, AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN is a funny, passionate, intimate and unique musical love story told entirely through a masterful selection of some of the greatest songs ever written for the stage.

"I so adore working with Mandy," said Patti LuPone. "He's always been a risk taker, a quality I love best in an actor. I treasure our partnership which began in Evita and which today is stronger than ever. And that's rare."

Mandy Patinkin said "To be onstage with Patti is as good as it gets for me. When I look into her eyes, I'm 30 years younger instantly. We're right back in time and I'm just in heaven. I'm only sad when the evening's over."

The Broadway premiere follows acclaimed appearances across the US, in Toronto, Australia and New Zealand.

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin are two of Broadway's most venerated performers, having both won a Tony Award® for their performances in Andrew Lloyd Weber's groundbreaking Evita in 1980. Since then they have both starred in film, television, the concert stage and back to Broadway. An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin brings them together again.

The show features musical staging consulting by fellow Broadway veteran and friend, Ann Reinking, who won a Best Choreography Tony Award® for the revival of Chicago. An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin is accompanied on piano by Mandy Patinkin's longtime pianist, Paul Ford. Patinkin directs.

Patti LuPone was last seen on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervoud Breakdown. She last won a Tony Award for her performance as Rose in Gypsy. LuPone's memorable performances on the New York musical stage include Vera Simpson in the City Center Encores! production of Pal Joey, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, (1988 Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), The Cradle Will Rock, Nancy in Oliver!, Evita (1980 Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Working and Rosamund in The Robber Bridegroon (1976 Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations). In London, she created the role of Fantine in the RSC production of Les Miserables, a role she subsequently played on the West End. For that performance, as well as the reprise of her performance in the London production of The Cradle Will Rock, she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Miss LuPone created the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1994 Olivier nomination), and recreated her Broadway performance of Maria Callas in the West End production of Master Class.

Her film and TV credits, including films City By The Sea, David Mamet's Heist and State and Main, Just Looking, Summer of Sam, The 24 Hour Woman, Family Prayers, Driving Miss Daisy, Witness, and TV appearances on NBC's "Will & Grace," "Oz," "Frasier" (1998 Emmy nomination), "Law & Order", "An Evening with Patti LuPone" (PBS).

Mandy Patinkin, in his 1980 Broadway debut, won a Tony Award® for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and he was nominated in 1984 for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George. In 1991 he returned to Broadway in the Tony Award®-winning musical The Secret Garden and in 1997 played a sold-out engagement of his one-man concert, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. Mandy's other solo concerts, Celebrating Sondheim and Mamaloshen have been presented on Broadway, Off-Broadway and have toured the United States.

Mandy won a 1995 Emmy Award for his critically acclaimed performance in the CBS series "Chicago Hope," and he recently starred in the CBS series "Criminal Minds" as FBI profiler Jason Gideon and in the Showtime Original Series "Dead Like Me" as the reaper Rube Sofer. His other television appearances include the role of Kenneth Duberstein in the Showtime film Strange Justice, playing Quasimodo opposite Richard Harris in the TNT film presentation of "The Hunchback," and a film version of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass for BBC/WGBH-Boston.

In 1989, Mandy began his concert career at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. This coincided with the release of his first solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin. Since then he has toured extensively, appearing to sold-out audiences across the United States, Canada, London and Australia, performing songs from writers including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin, among others.

In October 2007, Mandy debuted his newest concert with dear friend Patti LuPone and they begin touring their show An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin beginning March, 2009.