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Patti LuPone to Return to Carnegie Hall for Single Performance, 11/7
By: Tyler Peterson Sep. 25, 2013
Tony Award winner and Broadway star Patti LuPone returns to Carnegie Hall on Thursday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, presenting her solo show, Far Away Places-a travelogue of styles and stories that traces the actress's wanderlust with songs from the likes of Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, and Edith Piaf, conceived and directed by Scott Wittman, and with music direction and arrangements by Joseph Thalken.
Tickets, priced at $58 to $125, are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, or can be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie Hall website, carnegiehall.org.
Ms. LuPone's critically acclaimed show Far Away Places opened concert venue 54 Below in June 2012; her performance at Carnegie Hall features an expanded version of this concert.The New York Times praised Far Away Placesas "[certifiying] Ms. LuPone's place in the lineage of quirky international chanteuses like Lotte Lenya, Marlene Dietrich, and Edith Piaf, who, like Ms. LuPone, conquered show business with forceful, outsize personalities while playing by their own musical rules." This concert marks Ms. LuPone's fourth solo concert at Carnegie Hall, her first solo appearance since her show The Lady With The Torch in March 2005.
Patti LuPone, author of The New York Times bestseller, Patti LuPone: A Memoir, will be featured this fall as Joan Ramsey on this season's installment of the FX series American Horror Story: Coven, and next year will be seen in the new season of the HBO series Girls. Ms. LuPone's most recent Broadway appearances include David Mamet's The Anarchist and the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for which she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards. Other recent New York stage appearances include her debut with the New York City Ballet as guest soloist in their new production of The Seven Deadly Sins and her performance as Joanne in the New York Philharmonic's production of Company.
Ms. LuPone won the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Performance of the Season for her performance as Madame Rose in the most recent Broadway production of Gypsy. Her other stage credits include her debut with the Los Angeles Opera in Weill-Brecht's Mahagonny; the world premiere of Jake Heggie's opera To Hell and Back with San Francisco's Baroque Philharmonia Orchestra; Mrs. Lovett in John Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations, Drama League Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre); the title role in Marc Blitzstein's Regina; a musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes at the Kennedy Center; Fosca in a concert version of Passion, which was also broadcast on PBS's Live From Lincoln Center; a multi-city tour of her theatrical concert Matters of the Heart; the City Center Encores! production of Can-Can; the New York Philharmonic's productions of Candide and Sweeney Todd (New York Philharmonic debut); and performances on Broadway in Michael Frayn's Noises Off, David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood, Terrence McNally's Master Class, and in her own concert Patti LuPone On Broadway.
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