Patti LuPone Will Celebrate Her 70th Birthday With the New York Philharmonic
By: Stephi Wild Mar. 24, 2019
Patti LuPone is returning to the New York Philharmonic to celebrate her 70th birthday!
On May 16, at 7pm, LuPone will perform a concert of her favorite Broadway selections, including "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from Evita, "The Worst Pies in London" from Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and "I Am Easily Assimilated" from Candide.
The concert will take place at David Geffen Hall.
Tickets are priced $59-$159, and are available here.
Patti LuPone has previously appeared with the New York Philharmonic in Bernstein's Candide, Stephen Sondheim's Company and Sweeney Todd, and Sondheim: The Birthday Concert.
She has also appeared onstage in New York in the role of Helena Rubinstein in War Paint (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Shows for Days (Lincoln Center Theater), The Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Ballet), The Anarchist, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Gypsy (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League Awards), John Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Passion, Can Can, Noises Off, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class, Patti LuPone on Broadway (Outer Critics Circle Award), Pal Joey, Anything Goes (Drama Desk Award; Tony nomination), Oliver!, Accidental Death of An Anarchist, The Woods, Edmond, The Cradle Will Rock, Evita (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Working, The Water Engine, and The Robber Bridegroom (Tony and Drama Desk nominations).
In London she currently appears in Marianne Elliott's production of Company and has performed in Matters of the Heart, Master Class, Sunset Boulevard (Olivier Award nomination), Royal Shakespeare Company's Les Misérables (Olivier Award), and The Cradle Will Rock (Olivier Award). Her opera appearances include John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles (Los Angeles Opera), Jake Heggie's To Hell and Back (San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra), Weill-Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Los Angeles Opera), and Blitzstein's Regina (Kennedy Center).
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