Since 1977, LuPone has been a frequent collaborator with David Mamet, appearing in his plays The Woods, All Men are Whores, The Blue Hour, The Water Engine ( 1978 ), Edmond and The Old Neighborhood ( 1997 ).

Although LuPone was hailed by critics, she has since said that her time in Evita was not an enjoyable one.

Since 2001, LuPone has been a regular performer at the Chicago Ravinia Festival.

LuPone has been announced as joining the cast of the upcoming 2012 film Parker, an action-thriller.

" LuPone has been the subject of some controversy due to the bluntness of her statements regarding this matter.

Originally sung by Ethel Merman, it has been covered by performers including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster, Marlene Dietrich, Cesare Siepi, Dinah Washington, Bobby Short, Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Mary Martin, Anita O ` Day, Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Django Reinhardt, Gary Shearston, Jamie Cullum, The Living End, Dolly Parton, Joan Morris, Max Roach, Shirley Bassey, Rod Stewart, The Gutter Twins, Lisa Ekdahl, Nana Mouskouri and Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

Over the years, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Joan Baez, Anita Baker, The Ballet Russe, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Lucrezia Bori, Dave Brubeck, Sandip Burman, Montserrat Caballé, Glen Campbell, Pablo Casals, Chicago, Van Cliburn, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Aaron Copland, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Deep Purple, Placido Domingo, Doobie Brothers, Jackie Evancho, Horacio Gutierrez, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Dorothy Dandridge, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Ella Fitzgerald, Renée Fleming, Aretha Franklin, George Gershwin, Jose Greco, Buddy Guy, Hall & Oates, Marvin Hamlisch, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jascha Heifetz, John Houseman, Jennifer Hudson, Janis Joplin, The Judds, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Chaka Khan, Lyle Lovett, Patti LuPone, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yo-Yo Ma, Maroon 5, Sarah McLachlan, Idina Menzel, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Mandy Patinkin, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Peter, Paul & Mary, Robert Plant, Bernadette Peters, Oscar Peterson, Bonnie Raitt, David Sanborn, Beverly Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Isaac Stern, Sting, Elaine Stritch, Donna Summer, James Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Clara Ward, Orson Welles, Frank Zappa and Denis Matsuev.

The performers included: Laura Benanti, Matt Cavenaugh, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Jenn Colella, Jason Danieley, Alexander Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, John McMartin, Donna Murphy, Karen Olivo, Laura Osnes, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Bobby Steggert, Elaine Stritch, Jim Walton, Chip Zien, the 2009 Broadway revival cast of West Side Story and a ballet performed by Blaine Hoven and Maria Riccetto set to Stephen Sondheim's score of Warren Beatty's Reds.

When they were young, they performed on Long Island as the LuPone Trio.

A piece she had previously performed, LuPone sang the role of Anna in the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht score.

A semi-staged production, starring Patti LuPone as Fosca, Michael Cerveris as Giorgio and Audra McDonald as Clara, was performed at Lincoln Center in New York for three performances, March 30-April 1, 2005.

In the United States, the song is also closely linked with Patti LuPone, who performed the role of Eva in the original Broadway production of the show.

LuPone was born in Northport, New York, on Long Island, the daughter of Angela Louise ( née Patti ), a college library administrator, and Orlando Joseph LuPone, a school administrator.

The New York Times reviewer wrote of LuPone in The Old Neighborhood " Those who know Ms. LuPone only as a musical comedy star will be stunned by the naturalistic fire she delivers here.

In 2011, LuPone played the role of Joanne in a four-night limited engagement concert production of Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company at the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Sondheim expert Paul Gemignani.

LuPone made her New York City Ballet debut in May 2011 in a production of The Seven Deadly Sins, directed and choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett.

According to the New York Times reviewer, " Nowadays Ms. LuPone generates more raw excitement than any other performer on the Broadway and cabaret axis, with the possible exception of Liza Minnelli .... And her brilliant show, conceived and directed by her longtime collaborator, Scott Wittman, deserves many lives, perhaps even a Broadway run in an expanded edition.

Fontana was born on the west side of Buffalo, New York, and is the fourth of five children in an Italian-American family ; he is a cousin of actress Patti LuPone.

She also appeared with Peter Gallagher and Patti LuPone in Pal Joey at the New York City Center.

The Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois presented a staged concert on August 26 and 27, 2005, with Audra McDonald ( Fay ), Michael Cerveris ( Hapgood ) and Patti LuPone ( Cora ).

" Patti LuPone, Barbara Cook, Bernadette Peters, Tom Aldredge and Victor Garber were originally scheduled to perform, but withdrew from the concert.

* Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert ( 2001 ), a filmed concert version of Sondheim's musical, stars George Hearn as Sweeney Todd / Benjamin Barker, Patti LuPone as Mrs. Lovett, Timothy Nolen as Judge Turpin and Neil Patrick Harris as Tobias.

Directed by Lonny Price, the concert starred Patti LuPone as Annie, Patrick Cassidy as Frank and George Hearn as Buffalo Bill.

The concert received unanimously strong reviews, notably for LuPone and Price's direction.

Harris had previously worked with LuPone in the 2000 and 2001 concert productions of Sweeney Todd.

LuPone recently concluded a 63-performance Broadway engagement of her concert with former Evita co-star Mandy Patinkin, entitled An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin.

On September 6, 1997, Patti LuPone, Davis Gaines, and Rebecca Luker gave a concert at the Hollywood Bowl that ended with three selections from King David.

LuPone ’ s stint with the company lasted from 1972 to 1976, and she appeared in many of their productions, such as The Cradle Will Rock, The School for Scandal, Women Beware Women, The Beggar ’ s Opera, The Time of Your Life, The Lower Depths, The Hostage, Next Time I ’ ll Sing to You, Measure for Measure, Scapin, Edward II, The Orchestra, Love ’ s Labours Lost, Arms and the Man, The Way of the World.

After a series of dramatic roles on stage, most notably Vanya and Macbeth, Pryce decided he wanted to do musicals after seeing his friend Patti LuPone in the original London production of Les Misérables.

The tracks were recorded, under Boynton's direction and Ford's musical direction, by an eclectic roster of actors and musicians, including Blues Traveler, Meryl Streep, Alison Krauss, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting, Kevin Kline, Laura Linney, " Weird Al " Yankovic duetting with Kate Winslet, Patti LuPone, The Bacon Brothers with Mickey Hart, Eric Stoltz, the Spin Doctors, Mark Lanegan, Hootie & the Blowfish, Natasha Richardson, Billy J. Kramer, Scott Bakula, Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, and The Phenomenauts.

It also targets famous Broadway actors, writers, composers, directors, choreographers and producers, including Julie Andrews, Mel Brooks, Carol Channing, Kristin Chenoweth, Michael Crawford, Harvey Fierstein, Bob Fosse, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Goulet, Jerry Herman, Dustin Hoffman, Jennifer Holliday, Elton John, Angela Lansbury, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Patti LuPone, Cameron Mackintosh, Mary Martin, Idina Menzel, Ethel Merman, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Bebe Neuwirth, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Barbra Streisand, Julie Taymor and Gwen Verdon.

He also collects clippings of celebrities ' hair, including a complete collection from the four main actresses on The Golden Girls, as well as Broadway icons Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley, Idina Menzel, and — as of season seven — Patti LuPone.

* An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin ( 2011 )

Sams ' production transferred to Broadway, again at the Brooks Atkinson, on November 1, 2001, with Patti LuPone, Peter Gallagher, Faith Prince, T. R.

It was narrated by John Houseman, with LuPone in the roles of Moll and Sister Mister.

LuPone received positive reviews, with Vincent Canby writing " Ms. LuPone really is vulnerable here in a way that wasn't anticipated: she's in the process of creating a role for which she isn't ideally suited, but she's working like a trouper to get it right.

It certifies Ms. LuPone ’ s place in the lineage of quirky international chanteuses like Lotte Lenya, Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf, who, like Ms. LuPone, conquered show business with forceful, outsize personalities while playing by their own musical rules.

LuPone will guest star on Army wives on July 8, 2012, and reunite with fellow guest star Kellie Martin as her mother once again.

A revised version, written by Black and Christopher Hampton had a complete performance at the 1992 Sydmonton Festival, now with Patti LuPone playing Norma, and " met with great success ".

In August 2010, LuPone appeared in a three-day run of Irving Berlin ’ s Annie Get Your Gun, in which she played the title role opposite Patrick Cassidy, at the Ravinia Festival, directed by Lonny Price.

The ten-person cast, who played their own instruments in new orchestrations, consisted of John Arbo ( Jonas Fogg ; bass player ), Donna Lynne Champlin ( Pirelli ; piano, accordion, flute ), Alexander Gemignani ( The Beadle ; piano, trumpet ), Mark Jacoby ( Judge Turpin ; trumpet, percussion ), Diana DiMarzio ( Beggar Woman / Lucy Barker ; clarinet ), Benjamin Magnuson ( Anthony Hope ; cello, piano ), Lauren Molina ( Johanna Barker ; cello ), Manoel Felciano ( Tobias ; violin, clarinet, piano ), Patti LuPone ( Mrs. Lovett ; tuba, percussion ), and Michael Cerveris ( Sweeney Todd ; guitar ).

In August 2006, LuPone took a three week leave from Sweeney in order to play Rose in Lonny Price's production of Gypsy at Ravinia.

Uggams replaced Patti LuPone as Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center revival of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes on Broadway in March 1989.