Patti LuPone London Concerts

Broadway star Patti LuPone is performing in concert in London West End for seven nights only at the Leicester Square Theatre from 16th – 23rd June.

The shows will be hosted by the Grammy and Emmy nominated Seth Rudetsky, who will accompany her on the piano and chat about her extensive and varied career.

Songs performed will include music from Evita (which she last performed live 30 years ago) Gypsy, Company and Anything Goes.  LuPone will also share anecdotes throughout the night.

Patti LuPone is best known for her Tony Award-winning performance as Eva Perón in Evita on Broadway and creating the role of Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables. She created the role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard in the West End and won a second Best Actress Tony Award as Mama Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy.

Her Broadway career has also included Tony Award nominations for Anything Goes, Sweeney Todd and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. She also appeared in concert with her Evita co-star Mandy Patinkin in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin.

Film work includes Union Square, Parker, City By The Sea, Heist, State and Main, Summer of Sam, Driving Miss Daisy, and Witness.

TV guest appearances include Glee, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Will & Grace, OZ, Frasier, Law & Order and Life Goes On.

In addition, Seth Rudetsky will perform his hilarious solo show Deconstructing Broadway on Saturday 22 June at 9:30 pm

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Is Patti LuPone coming to the West End as Mama Rose in Gypsy?

It seems that the transfer of Arthur Laurents’ revival of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone could be in London’s West End by the end of this year.  This production played at the St James Theatre on Broadway, closing a year ago and winning three Tony Awards, including Best Actress in a Musical for Miss LuPone.

At one time the producer  David Ian  was trying to get hold of one of the West End’s bigger musical theatres for the large production with a cast of 30 and orchestra of 27.

Gypsy is all about the American burlesque stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her ambitious stage mother Mama Rose (played by LuPone). This strong headed woman is determined that her two daughters will become stars and does everything she can to find them fame and fortune – no matter what the cost.

The 1959 Broadway musical has a book by Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Jerome Robbins originally directed and choreographed the musical, which includes the classics “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”, “Rose’s Turn” and “Some People”.