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The year was 1980, and for 27 weeks at midnight during her career-defining run as Evita, Patti LuPone performed a legendary concert at the nightclub Les Mouches... Digitally restored from original soundboard tapes, this recording transcends time, place and genre and miraculously reappears here. It's like having a stereo in a time machine.

Since establishing herself as one of the leading ladies in Broadway musicals in the 1980s, Patti LuPone has picked up a lot of detractors, and the reasons are on ample display in Patti LuPone Live--the big brassy voice that can overpower just about any song she chooses, the lack of emotional subtlety, the big ego (hilariously spoofed in Forbidden Broadway's "I Get a Kick Out of Me"). Yet this 1993 concert is a fascinating trip through LuPone's career, which does not include that many shows yet seems to hit so many landmarks, from Evita to Anything Goes to Les Misérables. The first disc of the set is a song recital ranging from Porter to Weill (and nicely backed by a stage band and the male vocal quartet the Mermen). The second disc is a recap of LuPone's shows, and LuPone takes the self-congratulatory route, offering commentary on the shows and how she so cleverly picked them (only one of these mini-autobiographies is tracked separately for easy skipping), but it's clear she's entitled. This concert includes most of the hits you'd expect (except she makes only passing reference to the soon-to-be-controversial Sunset Boulevard, which premiered in London later that year) as well as some lesser-known gems. No question the 92 minutes is a lot for one sitting, and as good as the songs are, you might rather hear them from different singers (try Liz Callaway's "Meadowlark" and "Sleepy Man" on The Story Goes On), but this concert (also available in a one-disc version) is an extremely informative and enlightening evening. You might even enjoy the music as well. Perhaps everyone who fell in love with Evita and Reno Sweeney were right after all. --David Horiuchi

The Gypsy soundtrack includes bonus tracks.Curtain Up! The smash Broadway musical comes to life in this all new cast recording! It's the new 2008 revival of Gypsy, starring Tony and Olivier award-winner Patti Lupone as the indomitable Momma Rose. This classic American musical by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim about a fractured family stars the larger than life, true Broadway diva Lupone heading the cast as the "stage mother of all stage mothers," determined to make a star out of at least one of her children. Four time Tony-winner Boyd Gaines is the beleaguered Herbie,a gentlemanly candy salesman and reluctant theatrical agent who loves Rose, and Tony-winner Laura Benanti is the wallflower-turned-world-famous-stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, one of Rose's two daughters.

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Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, which began as a concept album in 1976 and had its first stage incarnation in London in 1978, finally came to the U.S. in 1979 with a production that opened in Los Angeles and moved to San Francisco for multi-week engagements before landing on Broadway on September 25 to begin a Tony-winning, 1,568-performance run. The London production had been represented by a one-disc highlights album, but this one became the second full-length treatment, running, like the concept album, 100 minutes. As such, the revisions made for the stage were more apparent, especially because there were more of them than there had been in London, sometimes to Americanize the language. ("The back of beyond" in "Eva and Magaldi" became "the sticks," while "Get stuffed!" in "Goodnight and Thank You" was now "Up yours!") "The Lady's Got Potential" had been deleted, and there was a new song, "The Art of the Possible," which, with its musical-chairs staging, was more effective in the theater than on record. And "Dangerous Jade" had been revised to become "Peron's Latest Flame." Many of the changes built up the role of Evita's critic, Che. As played by Mandy Patinkin, who achieved Broadway stardom in the role, Che now rivaled Evita as a musical presence, the actor's elastic tenor and bravura manner drawing more attention to him. But Patti Lu Pone also became a star here, fearlessly bringing out Evita's strident self-interest without attempting to gain the audience's sympathy. (You couldn't say that about London's Elaine Paige.) Lu Pone was at her best when Evita was at her worst, such as in the songs "A New Argentina" and "Rainbow High." The rest of the cast was unexceptional, though Bob Gunton's Juan Peron inspired curiosity as the only actor to use a Spanish accent. ~ William Ruhlmann Music and words written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice 2 CD Set. Broadway Cast Original cast includes: Patti LuPone, Bob Gunton, Mandy Patinkin.

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 21-SEP-1999

Since establishing herself as one of the leading ladies in Broadway musicals in the 1980s, Patti LuPone has picked up a lot of detractors, and the reasons are on ample display in Patti LuPone Live--the big brassy voice that can overpower just about any song she chooses, the lack of emotional subtlety, the big ego (hilariously spoofed in Forbidden Broadway's "I Get a Kick Out of Me"). Yet this 1993 concert is a fascinating trip through LuPone's career, which does not include that many shows yet seems to hit so many landmarks, from Evita to Anything Goes to Les Misérables. The first disc of the set is a song recital ranging from Porter to Weill (and nicely backed by a stage band and the male vocal quartet the Mermen). The second disc is a recap of LuPone's shows, and LuPone takes the self-congratulatory route, offering commentary on the shows and how she so cleverly picked them (only one of these mini-autobiographies is tracked separately for easy skipping), but it's clear she's entitled. This concert includes most of the hits you'd expect (except she makes only passing reference to the soon-to-be-controversial Sunset Boulevard, which premiered in London later that year) as well as some lesser-known gems. No question the 92 minutes is a lot for one sitting, and as good as the songs are, you might rather hear them from different singers (try Liz Callaway's "Meadowlark" and "Sleepy Man" on The Story Goes On), but this concert (also available in a one-disc version) is an extremely informative and enlightening evening. You might even enjoy the music as well. Perhaps everyone who fell in love with Evita and Reno Sweeney were right after all. --David Horiuchi

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