Patti LuPone: Don't Monkey with Broadway comes to bergenPAC Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling bergenPAC's Box Office at (201) 227-1030. The performance will feature the Chamber Chorus from the Performing Arts School at bergenPAC.
Patti LuPone: Don't Monkey With Broadway
In Don't Monkey with Broadway, two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone explores how her life-long love affair with Broadway began and her concern for what the Great White Way is becoming today, through indelible interpretations of classic Broadway show tunes by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Stephen Schwartz, Charles Strouse, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. The show was conceived and directed by Scott Wittman with musical direction by Joseph Thalken.
LuPone's recent stage appearances include Douglas Carter Beane's Shows For Days at Lincoln Center Theater, her debut with the New York City Ballet as Anna 1 in their new production of The Seven Deadly Sins, Joanne in the New York Philharmonic's production of Company, David Mamet's The Anarchist, and Lincoln Center Theater's production of the musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
A graduate of the first class of the Drama Division of New York's Juilliard School and a founding member of John Houseman's The Acting Company in which she toured the country for four years, her New York credits list is long and decorated. She's also appeared in several films and TV shows, including City by the Sea, Driving Miss Daisy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Girls, American Horror Story: Coven,Glee, 30 Rock and Ugly Betty.
Tickets available at: www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office (201) 227-1030
About bergenPAC
Founded in 2003, the 1,367-seat Bergen Performing Arts Center, or bergenPAC, is the area's cultural mecca. Housed in a historic Art Deco-style theater boasting one of the finest acoustic halls in the United States, bergenPAC attracts a stellar roster of world-class entertainment. The jewel in our crown is The Performing Arts School at bergenPAC - the innovative, educational performing arts initiative that, through programs, classes, outreach, school shows, and main theater presented shows, reach more than 30,000 students and community youth annually. The Performing Arts School provides community youth, age 2 months to 21 years, with unique, "hands-on" training in music, dance and theater by industry professionals. It is through the ongoing generosity of sponsors, donors, members, and patrons that the not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) corporation bergenPAC and The Performing Arts School are able to thrive and enrich our community.
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