Live from the West Side: Women of Broadway featuring Patti LuPone

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TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS

Live from the West Side: Women of Broadway featuring

Patti LuPone OCT 24

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“go, listen, and be changed” — the Boston Globe

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About Patti LuPone

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Building a Bridge with Robots

Patti LuPone Live from the West Side

Live from the West Side: Women of Broadway is a three show series that also includes Tony Award® winner Laura Benanti on November 14 and critically acclaimed actress and singer Vanessa Williams on December 5.

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Oct 24, 2020 Live from the West Side: Women of Broadway

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Patti LuPone

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PROGRAM Tonight’s Live from the West Side: Women of Broadway performance features two-time Tony Award® winner Patti LuPone in the first of three shows streaming live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios on Manhattan’s West Side. The show will feature a mix of Broadway showtunes, pop songs, and personal stories from LuPone’s life.

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ABOUT PATTI LUPONE Patti LuPone can currently be seen on Netflix as Avis Amberg in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood and recently won the Olivier and WhatsOnStage awards for her performance as Joanne in Marianne Elliott’s production of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Company in London’s West End. texasperformingarts.org

Her recent NY stage appearances include the Scott Frankel-Michael Korie-Douglas WrightMichael Grief musical War Paint (Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical); Douglas Carter Beane’s new play Shows For Days, directed by Jerry Zaks at Lincoln Center Theater; 7

her debut with the New York City Ballet as Anna I 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, for which she was nominated for Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards.

Winner of 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 appearances with the Los Angeles Opera in their new production of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles and Weill-Brecht’s Mahagonny (debut); 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’ “Live From Lincoln Center”; a multi-city tour of her theatrical concert Matters of the Heart; the City Center Encores! productions of Can-Can and Pal Joey; the NY Philharmonic’s productions of Candide and Sweeney Todd (NY Phil debut); and performances on Broadway Michael Frayn’s Noises Off; David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood; Terrence McNally’s Master Class; with her dear friend Mandy in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin; and in her own concert Patti LuPone On Broadway.

A graduate of the first class of the Drama Division of New York’s Juilliard School

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and a founding member of John Houseman’s The Acting Company in which she toured the country for four years, her subsequent New York credits include Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of An Anarchist; David Mamet’s The Water Engine, Edmond, and The Woods; and Israel Horovitz’ Stage Directions and performances in the musicals Anything Goes (Tony Award® nomination, Drama Desk Award); The Cradle Will Rock; Oliver!; Evita (Tony Award® and Drama Desk Award, Best Actress in a Musical); Working; and The Robber Bridegroom.

Since 2000 she’s appeared regularly at the Ravinia Festival. First in its Sondheim series when she starred as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Desiree in A Little Night Music, Fosca in Passion, Cora Hooper in Anyone Can Whistle, Madame Rose in Gypsy and in two different roles in Sunday in the Park with George. Her subsequent appearances there include a reprise of her performance in Heggie’s To Hell and Back, a concert performance of Weill’s texasperformingarts.org

The Seven Deadly Sins and starring in the title role in a concert production of Annie Get Your Gun. In London, she won the Olivier Award for her performances as Fantine in the original production of Les Miserables and in the Acting Company production of The Cradle Will Rock. She also created the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award, and recreated her Broadway performance of Maria Callas in Master Class.

Film: Cliffs of Freedom; The Comedian; Union Square; Parker; City by the Sea, David Mamet’s Heist, State and Main; Just Looking; Summer of Sam; The 24 Hour Woman; Family Prayers; Driving Miss Daisy; Witness.

Television: Hollywood; Pose; Mom; The Simpsons; Vampirina; Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; Penny Dreadful (Critics Choice nomination); Girls; American Horror Story: Coven; Law & Order: SVU; Glee; 30 Rock; PBS Great 9

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Performances’ The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Grammy Award for the broadcast’s recording); Ugly Betty; Will & Grace (as herself); PBS Great Performances’ Candide; Oz; the TNT film Monday Night Mayhem; PBS Evening At The Pops with John Williams and Yo-Yo Ma; Falcone; Bonanno: A Godfather’s Story (Showtime); Frasier (1998 Emmy nomination); Law & Order; An Evening with Patti LuPone (PBS); the NBC movie Her Last Chance; Showtime’s ACE Award and Emmy nominated The Song Spinner (Daytime Emmy nomination, Best Actress); The Water Engine; L.B.J.; AMC’s Remember WENN; and ABC’s Life Goes On.

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Recordings include: Don’t Monkey with Broadway; Far Away Places; Patti LuPone at Les Mouches; The Lady with the Torch; and many original cast recordings including, most recently: the London production of Company; War Paint; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Gypsy; and Sweeney Todd (both the 2006 Broadway revival cast recording and 2000 live performance recording on NY Philharmonic’s Special Editions Label.)

She is the author of The New York Times bestseller Patti LuPone: A Memoir.

Visit pattilupone.net.

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2020–21 VIRTUAL EVENT

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA SEPTET WITH WYNTON MARSALIS:

The Sounds of Democracy

Oct 30 at 7 pm

The Sounds of Democracy aims to entertain, inspire, and uplift audiences with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music.

Led by trumpeter / composer Wynton Marsalis and featuring seven of jazz’s finest soloists, the concert’s unique repertoire celebrates jazz’s embodiment of freedom and democracy.

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Building a Bridge with Robots University of Texas at Austin students enrolled in the Performance Robots course will collaborate with AISD Metz-SĂĄnchez Elementary School to design robots that can be controlled remotely via the internet. On top of an already busy virtualclass-filled schedule, Eva Rosenthal, 2nd grade teacher at Metz-SĂĄnchez, enthusiastically agreed to be the robot club sponsor, and developed a STEAM-centered lesson plan for the club.

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The elementary students will create initial drawings and stories, and the UT Austin students will bring these robot designs to life in consultation and collaboration with their young design partners. Controllability and expressiveness to tell these robots’ stories will guide all automation and fabrication decisions of our UT student team. The robots will make their debut performance in December, with their elementary school

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designers controlling them remotely via the web.

This project unleashes creativity in the UT students as well as young learners. In this especially challenging time, we want to explore how simultaneously investing and elevating children and UT students’ creativity might support the mental well-being of all ages and inspire all those who watch the collaborative performance. Through this virtual collaboration, building hands-on, IoT (internet of

things) connected projects, our multi-generational community of students will practice artistic expression, design, and storytelling. In these uncharted times, these little robots remind us of the power of collaboration and play, raising the spirits of us all.

Follow their work on the Texas Performing Arts Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.

This program is part of the Texas Performing Arts mission to enlighten, educate, and inspire young artists.

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2020–21 ART EXHIBITION

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​ ollywood’s Sistine Chapel: H Sacred Sets for Stage & Scene

Sep 10–Apr 4

McNay Art Museum San Antonio, TX CO-ORGANIZED BY THE MCNAY ART MUSEUM AND TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS

Six hand-painted, sound-stage backdrops from MGM Studios will “guest star” alongside exquisite artworks from The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts. The backdrops, on loan from Texas Performing Arts, were created for MGM’s 1968 papal drama, The Shoes of the Fisherman. Nearly discarded, more than 200 backdrops were saved through the 2017 Art Directors Guild’s Backdrop Recovery Project.

Texas Performing Arts owns 50 backdrops from Hollywood’s Golden Age of film for use in support of our educational mission.

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Director’s Council Volunteer Leadership in Action

The Texas Performing Arts Director’s Council is a group of dedicated donors, sponsors, and volunteers committed to presenting world-class performances, providing students access to every performance we present, and building the next generation of audiences, artists, and presenters.

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Amber Goodspeed

J. E. Johnson

Executive Director

Broadway Events Manager

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Leigh Remeny Administrative Associate, Business Operations EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT

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Yvonne Kimmons Assistant Director, Performance Logistics

Scott Bussey Technical Director

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TICKET OFFICE

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Assistant Ticketing Services Manager, Event Operations

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2020–21 VIRTUAL EVENT

LIVE FROM THE WEST SIDE: WOMEN OF BROADWAY

Laura Benanti

Nov 14 at 7 pm

Join us for the second of this three-part virtual concert series, Live from the West Side: Women of Broadway featuring Tony Award® winner Laura Benanti on November 14, 2020. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios, the show will feature a mix of Broadway showtunes, pop songs, and personal stories. You can also submit questions in advance for her to answer during the show.

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