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.

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

The Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer Patti LuPone is a great-grand niece and namesake.

In 1979 LuPone starred in the original Broadway production of Evita, the musical based on the life of Eva Peron, composed by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice, and directed by Harold Prince.

LuPone had previously worked for Mackintosh in a short-lived Broadway revival of Oliver!

In November 1995 LuPone starred in her one-woman show, Patti LuPone on Broadway, at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

In 2010, LuPone created the role of Lucia in the original Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which opened at the Belasco Theatre on November 4, 2010, and closed on January 2, 2011, after 23 previews and 69 regular performances.

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.

Patti LuPone, who initially had been promised the Broadway run, sued Lloyd Webber and received a settlement reported to be $ 1 million ; Faye Dunaway, set to replace Close in L. A., was let go because Lloyd Webber felt her singing voice was not up to the role.

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.

In the fall of 2010, Mitchell returned to Broadway to star along with Patti LuPone in the musical version of the Pedro Almodóvar film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

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.

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

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.

* Patti LuPone: In the 1987 Broadway ( Lincoln Center ) revival of Anything Goes.

Both Anderson and LuPone were subsequently fired from the production without warning, having been told that they would be reprising their roles in the original Broadway production of the show.

Added to the list of phone messages in the Broadway production was the voice of Patti LuPone.

The show also features recorded vocal cameo appearances by several well-known Broadway actors, playing themselves: Kerry Butler, Marin Mazzie, Victoria Clark, Christine Ebersole, Sutton Foster, Patti LuPone, and Emily Skinner.

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, in her memoirs, said that the production should have run longer, noting that this production utilized the original sets, costumes, blocking ( staging ), and direction, and commented: " Hmm ... maybe ' that ' was the problem ".

LuPone had asked the show's Musical Director to change her keys because they were too low for her, but was told she could not.

Patti Ann LuPone ( born April 21, 1949 ) is an American singer and actress, known for her Tony Award-winning performance as Eva Perón in the 1979 stage musical Evita and for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in the original London cast of Les Misérables.

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

" Despite the trouble, LuPone won her first Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

LuPone and her co-star, Mandy Patinkin, remained close friends both on and off the stage.

For her work in both The Cradle Will Rock and Les Misérables, LuPone received the 1985 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

There was much anticipation of LuPone appearing in another Lloyd Webber musical, the first since her performance in Evita.

LuPone won the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, Drama Desk Award, and Tony Award for her performance in Gypsy.

LuPone was nominated for a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance ( but did not win ).

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.

LuPone performs regularly in her solo shows Matters of the Heart ; Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda ; and The Lady With the Torch which sold out at Carnegie Hall.

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

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

After he was removed, LuPone restarted her number.

Ms. LuPone wrote a memoir, recounting her life and career from childhood to the present, which was released in September 2010.

Patti LuPone performs this song as part of her one-woman show Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda.

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.

LuPone has performed in numerous New York concert productions of musicals including Pal Joey with Peter Gallagher and Bebe Neuwirth, Annie Get Your Gun with Peter Gallagher, Sweeney Todd with George Hearn in both New York and San Francisco, Anything Goes with Howard McGillin, Can-Can with Michael Nouri for City Center Encores !, Candide with Kristin Chenoweth, Passion with Michael Cerveris and Audra McDonald and Gypsy with Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti for City Center Encores !.

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

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.