From Entertainment Weekly... Oh, Patti, I am still eating this dish up with a SPOON! (And no, I am not on her payroll!*)
Don’t cry for Patti LuPone. Broadway’s original Evita is back on stage this fall and belting out stories about her long, tumultuous career in a juicy new memior. Note to Andrew Lloyd Weber: Take cover.
LuPone on when Andrew Lloyd Webber—the composer producer who made her a star in Evita—publicly fired her in favor of Glenn Close: “Do I think Glenn Close was complicit in what happened to me? But what I do know is that from the time she was announced, I never heard from her.”
Even 15 years later, she’s still sour on Sir Andrew: “I’m never going to work with him again. It was a cruel experience.”
On her reputation as a diva preceding her: “It’s been since Evita, so it’s been—what?—30 odd years? But they want you to be a bitch.”
On her famously demanding backstage behavior: “I never asked them to change the color of my wig or to kiss and wash my feet. I was always just asking for the things we needed to help us get on stage. It’s always been about the show.”
On David Mamet: “There’s a danger to his work. I love that moment where I can say, ‘I’m here—not in a play.’”
Looking back: “It’s been a hard career, it’s been a phenomenal career. It’s been incredibly interesting, it’s been incredibly difficult. As David Mamet once said, the universe is unfolding as it should.”
* Patti! I will totally be on your payroll!! Call me! ;)
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