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“I have been incredibly fortunate over the course of my
career to have been associated with some extraordinary dramatic and
musical productions, and also some rather spectacular disasters.
Looking back, I can find gifts and life lessons in every
one.”
The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved
leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate
story of her life both onstage and off–through the dizzying highs
and darkest lows–with the humor and outspokenness that have become
her trademarks.
With nearly 100 photographs, including an 8-page four-color insert,
and illuminating details about the life of a working actor, from
inspired costars and demanding directors to her distinct
perspective on how she developed and honed her Tony Award–winning
performances, Patti LuPone: A Memoir is as inspirational as
it is entertaining. And though the title might say “a memoir,” this
is ultimately a love letter to the theatre by a unique American
artist.
Raised on Long Island’s North Shore, Patti discovered her calling
at the age of four and knew that she was destined for the stage. A
prodigiously gifted child, she was one of only 36 young actors
chosen for the inaugural class of The Juilliard School’s Drama
Division, where she fought near-constant criticism from her
instructors, and here describes those early years with disarming
frankness.
From the heady days of her early twenties—crisscrossing the country
as a founding member of the classical repertory theatre ensemble,
The Acting Company–to her early success on Broadway, her four-year
stint as Libby Thacher on the television series Life Goes
On, her loving marriage to Matt Johnston, and much, much more,
Patti chronicles her professional and personal life with inimitable
candor and wit.
With its insightful retrospective of her career-defining turns,
both on Broadway and abroad, in Evita, Les
Misérables, Anything Goes, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney
Todd, and Gypsy, Patti LuPone: A Memoir reveals
the artist’s deeply felt passion for music and the theatre and is,
in the end, the compelling and quintessential tale of an
exceptional life well lived.
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