Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Alessio2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/15/13
#2Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:13pm
This sounds beyond amazing!! I know this is very premature but I really hope it comes to Broadway. Never seen LuPone on stage!
#3Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:13pm
I'm glad this is FINALLY happening. I'm sad that donna Murphy isn't doing it anymore but I'm always happy to see Ebersole on stage.
#4Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:19pm
Very disappointed that Murphy didn't do it. But Ebersole is a great performer. It'll be great to see them together on stage.
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nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#5Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:25pm
SOMEBODY get a documentary crew to document this backstage!!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#6Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:35pm
I'm SO excited. There's no way I'm not going to Chicago to see this. LuPone and Ebersole together is too good to pass up.
#7Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:38pm
This sounds fantastic. I hope it makes it to NYC.
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#8Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:43pm
With a new Frankel and Korie score to boot!
To say this excites me is a major understatement.
....but the world goes 'round
#9Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:55pm
I'm very excited to hear about the creative team and onstage talent attached! I'm also glad it's getting a proper out of town tryout so it can (conceivably) come to New York in the best shape possible.
#10Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:31pm
This sounds great!!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#11Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:36pm
Oh my gosh I'm absolutely making a trip to Chicago to see this. I never pass up a chance to see either one when it's practical for me (i.e. I live in the mid-west). Plus, I kinda want to have a bi-polar theatre weekend and pair this with The SpongeBob Musical just because I was already curious and the runs overlap.
#12Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:42pm
This is one of the most intriguing projects to me in recent memory!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#13Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:12pm
Just got my subscriber email announcing this. I am sooooo excited. I have never seen either LuPone or Ebersole on stage!!
#14Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 8:38pm
This sounds simultaneously fantastic and campy (in the vein of COCO) and I hope it comes to Broadway.
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#15Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 8:50pm
I said a few years ago that they should have cast Bernadette and Patti. With those two names surely it'll be an easier road to Broadway, and what a hilarious novelty it would be.
Still, everything about this show is so exciting: director, cast, book writer, composer/lyricist, content.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#16Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 9:01pm
I have never seen such pandering. I hope to god I get a chance to see it.
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#17Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 9:04pm
Patti. <3
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#18Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/12/15 at 11:18pm
I will be buying tickets the second they go on sale! This is the best news I've had in quite a while!
jimmycurry01
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
#19Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/13/15 at 12:44am
I will be there. I will see this.
#20Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/13/15 at 1:47pm
Elephant in the room: will these two ladies be able to get along? I believe they both have, shall we say, difficult reputations.
#21Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/13/15 at 1:49pmRemarkably, I think LuPone is the more reasonable of the two.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#22Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/13/15 at 2:00pm
Oy vey. I guess if La LuPone could get alone with Debra Winger, maybe she's mellowed.
#23Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/13/15 at 2:59pm
Kad said: "Remarkably, I think LuPone is the more reasonable of the two. "
They're also two very different flavors of alleged crazy. If they did make a documentary, as nasty_khakis suggested, I imagine a lot of shots of LuPone staring straight into the camera a la The Office and shows of that ilk.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#24Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/13/15 at 3:05pm
Can't wait! They should set up competing Rubinstein and Arden vendor "boutiques" in the lobby.
And the first thing that came to mind was this could be the "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" of backstage musicals ... onstage and off.
Sign me up!
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#25Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole to star in WAR PAINT at Chicago's Goodman Theatre!
Posted: 11/13/15 at 10:21pm
Got tickets for July. I feel lucky.
