Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone and Golden Globe nominee Mia Farrow, who will return to Broadway later this month in Jen Silverman's The Roommate, recently dropped by Late Night With Seth Meyers.
LuPone and Farrow spoke about their brief rehearsal period (it's only three weeks), the start of their friendship many years ago thanks to Stephen Sondheim, and some shocking evenings working on stage.
by Anonymous | reply 414 | October 14, 2024 5:26 AM |
Directed by Jack O’Brien, the new one-act comedy The Roommate will begin performances August 29 at the Booth Theatre with an official opening night scheduled for September 12.
In The Roommate, Sharon’s never had a roommate before—in fact, there’s a lot Sharon’s never done before, but Robyn’s about to change all that. The play follows the blossoming intimacy between two women from different backgrounds, as they navigate the complexities of identity, morality, and the promise of reinvention.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 15, 2024 12:48 AM |
I loved Mia Farrow in Woody Allen's movie, 'Broadway Danny Rose.' So damn funny.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 15, 2024 12:55 AM |
Is a three week rehearsal all that short for a non-musical?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 15, 2024 1:50 AM |
Patti's looks have really hardened.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 15, 2024 1:53 AM |
Kee-ripes, look the size of that honker!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 15, 2024 1:57 AM |
She looks like Walter Matthau!
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 15, 2024 2:03 AM |
[quote]Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone
Just three?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 15, 2024 2:05 AM |
I would pay big money just to see Patti Lupone do a one woman show where she smokes and drinks and just bitches the audience out and just rants her opinions. I’d title it “Fuck Off! with Patti Lupone.”
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 15, 2024 3:12 AM |
Never be photographed in direct profile, Patti.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 15, 2024 3:14 AM |
She's an old Italian woman what do you want?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 15, 2024 3:17 AM |
[quote]She's an old Italian woman what do you want?
Sicilian, I believe. Don’t refer to Sicilians as “Italian.” It won’t end well for you.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 15, 2024 3:22 AM |
Oh, great.
Another retread of "The Olden Girls."
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 15, 2024 3:28 AM |
Did Patti bash Andrew Lloyd Webber?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 15, 2024 3:31 AM |
I wanna see this show!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 15, 2024 3:44 AM |
Did her nose get longer as she aged?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 15, 2024 3:55 AM |
She looks psycho.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 15, 2024 4:48 AM |
Patti was so funny on Seth! Mia is a psycho but is still see this show.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 15, 2024 5:41 AM |
“I don’t know what’s so important on your phone, but this is the show of the year! Maybe you’d like to show the audience what you just received?”
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 15, 2024 5:42 AM |
Patti has anger issues and MIA IS BITCH!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 15, 2024 5:48 AM |
Mia is rather annoyed she's not getting more rehearsal time. Only three weeks. Not even four!!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 15, 2024 7:09 AM |
Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow is 79 years old.
Mia...do something with your hair.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 15, 2024 7:11 AM |
Mia's godparents were director George Cukor and columnist Louella Parsons.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 15, 2024 7:12 AM |
Mia is Hollywood royalty.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 15, 2024 7:13 AM |
Patti is not a Hollywood legend. A Broadway legend yes.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 15, 2024 7:38 AM |
Patti is half Abruzzese so she is half Italian. Maybe it's the two warring halves that give her those particular idiosyncrasies. I bet she'll be a terrific grandmother.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 15, 2024 11:37 AM |
Is Patti playing Felix or Oscar?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 15, 2024 11:59 AM |
She’s playing the apartment, Rose.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 15, 2024 12:09 PM |
Mia: Clean up this mess!
Patti: After I sing this song.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 15, 2024 12:11 PM |
So what happened with Patti’s dramatic resignation from Equity?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 15, 2024 1:07 PM |
[quote] Patti is half Abruzzese so she is half Italian. Maybe it's the two warring halves that give her those particular idiosyncrasies. I bet she'll be a terrific grandmother.
R26 Father from Abruzzi, mother from Sicily. That's not half Italian.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 15, 2024 1:13 PM |
Abruzzi is in Italy. She's half Italian.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 15, 2024 1:17 PM |
I think the point is that she’s 100% Italian.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 15, 2024 1:25 PM |
Thank you.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 15, 2024 1:30 PM |
I wonder if they'll "stage door" - it seems to be de rigueur these days.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 15, 2024 2:36 PM |
This is all fun and fabulous-talent over flowing from these ladies BUT why is there no public backlash about Seths hideous HAIR! I can't be the only one aware this? He can never poke fun at Dump about his hair because Seth Meyers actually looks worse. How can his "people' send him out every night looking like that-it's like the Biden folks telling Joe he's still got it.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 15, 2024 2:55 PM |
Ages 75 and 79. What ages will they be playing onstage?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 15, 2024 2:56 PM |
[quote]the start of their friendship many years ago thanks to Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim was sick to death of both of them, so it was, "Patti, have you met Mia?" Then he fled.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 15, 2024 3:15 PM |
Mia Farrow in "The Purple Rose of Cairo".....I LOVE that movie!!
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 15, 2024 3:27 PM |
Such an unlikely "friendship"
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 15, 2024 3:35 PM |
I cannot wait for the stories that will come out of BPD maniac Mia Farrow throwing massive tantrums, after abrasive NPD cunt Patti has mocked her, insulted her talent and attempted to boss her around. Mia will blame it all on how Woody Allen damaged her reputation by leaving her for Soon-Yi, and Patti will spend the next decade constantly whining about how SHE would have been a great success, were it not for the incompetent, stupid and talentless production, with Mia being the main target of her vitriol.
Seriously, I hope that the behind-the-scenes shenanigans are recorded for posterity, as I am sure that the dysfunction, unprofessionalism and egomania of these two ancient witches will be a million times more entertaining than the play itself.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 15, 2024 3:38 PM |
[quote]So what happened with Patti’s dramatic resignation from Equity?
Despite what she said, r303, she probably took a break from AEA. People do that all the time. I've done it myself. If you don't expect to be working on Broadway for awhile, you can simply put your membership on suspension, then pick up where you left off.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 15, 2024 3:45 PM |
Did Patti say anything publicly against Debra Winger about that disastrous Mamet production they were in?
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 15, 2024 4:24 PM |
[quote] Is a three week rehearsal all that short for a non-musical?
Not for this show. It is one act and only an hour and a half long. Yet, the tickets are full Broadway prices.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 15, 2024 4:29 PM |
Mia says in the interview they wanted 5 weeks. But I wonder if they will have a lot of previews to make up for it.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 15, 2024 4:30 PM |
I was thinking more Legend R17.
The thumbnail was just the worst angle possible for her. Throw in the slightly maniacal looking eyes and ...
It is almost like it was on purpose.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 15, 2024 4:35 PM |
Mia is great in a few of her Woody films and her appearance in Love Letters was wonderful. No matter if she is a psycho she is a very fine talent. Better actor than her mother who I like a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 15, 2024 4:46 PM |
Mia's voice sounds deeper in that interview. Maybe she is hoarse from screaming at Patti all day. For her character, of course.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 15, 2024 4:55 PM |
So, exactly how will she now be a marquee star of a major play on the Great White Way? One source said the production will make a “right to work” argument on behalf of LuPone.
It won’t be easy. You’ll think it strange!
Because, unlike in other states such as Kentucky, New York does not have any “right to work” laws. There are no legal protections here from an employer’s union requirement for a job. Usually you join up — or do concerts at the Ice Palace on Fire Island and at Carnegie Hall.
However, another source said the actress will get away with it.
“You don’t need to be an Equity member to be in a play,” they said. “They can’t force her. They can picket, but that’s about it.”
But now, God knows, Anything Goes!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 15, 2024 5:07 PM |
[quote] I hope that the behind-the-scenes shenanigans are recorded for posterity
Maybe Marsha Mason is wearing a wire?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 15, 2024 5:22 PM |
I'm going to go see this on Broadway, the ex-wife& her wife, plus me!!
It should be FUN!!
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 15, 2024 5:23 PM |
I hope The Roommate is not like Legends where Carol Channing started bullying Mary Martin onstage.
I can see Mia forgetting a line and Patti going all “Channing” on her and just saying both sets of lines.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 15, 2024 5:43 PM |
Cancelled in rehearsals due to creative differences.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 15, 2024 5:43 PM |
If Mia pulls out, Diane Weist will do it.
If Patti pulls out, Betty Buckley will do it.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 15, 2024 6:15 PM |
Why so bitter R41? Seek help.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 15, 2024 6:19 PM |
My uncle is married to an Italian-American woman who reminds me so much of Patti. She smokes, she drinks, she curses, she tells you exactly what she thinks and there's no bullshit with her at all. I fucking love her.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 15, 2024 6:26 PM |
I wonder if Sondheim was stuck in a canoe with Patti ore was paddling for his life towards the full moon to escape her.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 15, 2024 6:44 PM |
Patti never *originated* a Sondheim role, and she stole Stritch’s signature song, forcing Stritch to screech through I’m Still Here at Sondheim events.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 15, 2024 7:13 PM |
Previews: Aug 29, 2024 • Opening: Sep 12, 2024 • Closing: Dec 15, 2024.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 15, 2024 7:17 PM |
West Coast Tour announced starring Ronan Farrow and Jason Gould.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 15, 2024 7:21 PM |
R60 if it’s like Patti’s last play, The Anarchist, then closing will be September 19th.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 15, 2024 7:33 PM |
Three weeks rehearsal is not enough given their ages. That's putting alot of pressure on them to memorize lines, etc. I guess it helps that Patti and Mia aren't strangers but still.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 15, 2024 7:41 PM |
Maybe a lot of the show is mime or improvised.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 15, 2024 7:51 PM |
Sicily is part of Italy. Sicily is not its own country.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 15, 2024 8:28 PM |
r57 But is she as thin-skinned as Patti? The type who'll tell you exactly what they think, but should anyone return the favour, then oh my god how dare you attack me...
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 15, 2024 9:01 PM |
[quote] Three weeks rehearsal is not enough given their ages. That's putting alot of pressure on them to memorize lines, etc. I guess it helps that Patti and Mia aren't strangers but still.
Oh babe! These gals are stars, not community theater veterans.. You can bet they knew all their lines before rehearsals even began. It's all fine tuning for three weeks. Their egos will make sure they are perfect before previews even begin. Especially, at those prices.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 15, 2024 9:10 PM |
I was going to say that also the playwright might do some changes but this is the 4th production, so I guess she is happy with it by now.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 15, 2024 9:15 PM |
[QUOTE] etc. I guess it helps that Patti and Mia aren't strangers but still.
If you watch the interview, they both actually mention that not being strangers HAS been a problem. Mia said that because she knows Patti, there are moments where she has retained empathy for the actress even though her character doesn’t have it for Patti’s character. They said that they had just had an epiphany about it earlier that day in rehearsals before the interview with Seth (distilled by their director).
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 15, 2024 9:31 PM |
Why didn't they do a Deuce revival?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 15, 2024 10:03 PM |
R65 Ask a northern Italian.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 15, 2024 10:15 PM |
WTF with the endless Italian shit from our eldergays? Were they rejected by some hot horse hung Italian sometime during the last century?
Jesus, it's almost pathological. You never get this shit about the French, Spanish or Germans.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 15, 2024 10:17 PM |
R67. Good point
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 15, 2024 10:18 PM |
Patti has clearly hit the Ozempic bar.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 15, 2024 10:26 PM |
r67 Funny you say that, as there's a poster in the Theatre Gossip thread claiming to know someone working on the show, saying that both will be wearing earpieces because they've had such trouble memorising their lines
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 15, 2024 10:28 PM |
Q: Where is Mary Martin?
Carol Channing: She's at home learning her lines.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 15, 2024 11:19 PM |
[quote]Sicily is part of Italy. Sicily is not its own country.
Then how come on Golden Girls Sophia always said, “Picture it. Sicily. 1923.” Why didn’t she say, “Picture it. Italy.”
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 15, 2024 11:37 PM |
R65, when the Kingdom of Italy was created in 1861, the Italian peninsula hadn't been a single polity in 1500 years. Since the fall of the Western Roman empire in the 5th Century, it was comprised of a series of kingdoms, principalities and republics that were fiercely patriotic and all had their own languages, cultural legacy and traditions. In fact, Italian is an artificial language mostly created from Tuscan, which was chosen as the model for Italian because of its very ancient and prestigious literary tradition (Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Antonio Cornazzano, Andrea Orcagna, Leone Battista Alberti, Lorenzo de' Medici, Luigi Pulci and Matteo Boiardo, among many).
Most of the people who migrated to the US from the Italian peninsula from the late XIX Century to the 1950s, wouldn't have spoken it at all or had learned it as a second language at school. In fact, it was in the 1960s that the Italian government implemented a very aggressive campaign to promote the speaking of Italian, and for this purpose stigmatized and downgraded all the other languages spoken in the country, misrepresenting them as mere "dialects" that are, to this day, devoid of prestige.
So yes, even though it's uncommon to find people who do not consider themselves exclusively Italian in modern Italy, there are independence and pro-autonomic movements, especially in the north of the country.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation, but this is an important issue that affects many European countries, including Spain, Germany, Belgium and France.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 15, 2024 11:45 PM |
Patti is a revolting, self-involved union buster.
She's gleefully damaging the union which has supported her with health insurance and a pension among other things for over forty years like the self-enchanted cunt she's always been.
Fuck Patti LuPone!
by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 16, 2024 12:42 AM |
They didn’t protect her though. Isn’t that what she paid for?
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 16, 2024 12:56 AM |
[quote]They didn’t protect her though.
How did they not protect her?
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 16, 2024 12:57 AM |
Patti does t need protection. The rest of us need protection from her!
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 16, 2024 1:35 AM |
r82 When Lillias White was criticised for telling off an audience member for having their phone out (it turned out to be a captioning device), some people brought up Patti's famous incident. She seems to have gotten pissy that Equity didn't issue some kind of statement telling people not to mention her. And then got even more pissy that the rules apply to her and she'd need to be re-approved if she wanted to rejoin in the future.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 16, 2024 8:14 AM |
I’d rather see Faye Dunaway and Brendad Ickson together than these two no talent cows.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 16, 2024 8:52 AM |
Where did Patti first encounter Aubrey Plaza that she felt obligated to take Aubrey into her home and mentor her during Aubrey's NY stage debut? In case you haven't seen it, Patti talks about this in her Seth interview.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 16, 2024 12:48 PM |
r86 She says in the interview they worked together on the Agatha All Along TV show
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 16, 2024 1:07 PM |
Never heard of Agatha All Along. What the hell was that?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 16, 2024 1:29 PM |
^ It was a snuff film, Rose.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 16, 2024 1:33 PM |
Some Marvel series with that ugly guy from Heartfrauers
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 16, 2024 1:46 PM |
Motorola couldn’t put a Razr into either of their gift bags for the premiere….
They fear the edges are too sharp for a fight!
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 16, 2024 2:20 PM |
Three weeks in a rehearsal room plus the 2, 3 weeks of tech (they failed to mention that) is plenty of time. any decent director would have it blocked in week one, and the next weeks running, fixing, exploring, fine tuning. And then into tech. It's basically 150 hours to rehearse 90 minutes.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 16, 2024 2:53 PM |
A Broadway play (not a musical) will usually only get one week of tech, not 2 or 3, r92, especially with just 2 actors and one set and, I'd imagine, not a lot of light and sound effects.
And while it's true rehearsals can continue during the daytime during previews, the actors still have to perform in front of an audience every night.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 16, 2024 4:56 PM |
When I worked in shows we only got one tech performance before the dress rehearsal. Was never in a show that had previews.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 16, 2024 5:04 PM |
R94. - Long standing member of The Gallery Players.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 16, 2024 5:17 PM |
Between her nose and her chin she has a PERFECT Crescent Moon Face.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 16, 2024 7:10 PM |
Never realized what a hideous profile LuPone has…
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 17, 2024 4:48 AM |
Roommates sounds a lot like “wicked”
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 17, 2024 4:58 AM |
LEFT profile only, Patti!
by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 17, 2024 4:59 AM |
Amanda Farrow was her mother?
by Anonymous | reply 100 | August 17, 2024 5:02 AM |
Rosemary's Baby grew up, transitioned, and became Patti.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | August 17, 2024 5:50 AM |
Well Patti’s looking good these days, said no one ever.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 17, 2024 5:55 AM |
“Put away the phone, you ingrate! THIS IS MY SHOW!”
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 17, 2024 6:30 AM |
[quote]R63 Three weeks rehearsal is not enough given their ages. That's putting alot of pressure on them to memorize lines, etc. I guess it helps that Patti and Mia aren't strangers but still.
Maybe they’d meet up before official rehearsals began to run lines together.
I wonder why the producers cut the rehearsal period short. What’s the major expense consideration… the rehearsal hall rental??
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 17, 2024 6:52 AM |
The teaser
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 17, 2024 7:09 AM |
What is the plot of The Roommate?
by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 17, 2024 11:22 AM |
R89 I never heard of it, either.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 17, 2024 1:07 PM |
I’m gonna go to the show and bring out my phone.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 17, 2024 1:30 PM |
Don't know this for a fact but I'd bet the producers paid for intern types to sit with Mia and Patti in their homes going over lines with them for a couple of weeks before rehearsals formally began.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 17, 2024 1:32 PM |
The stars can't pay for their own assistants to help with that?
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 17, 2024 1:39 PM |
The question would be more, would the producers pay Patti and Mia to learn their lines for two weeks before rehearsals began?
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 17, 2024 1:42 PM |
[quote]The stars can't pay for their own assistants to help with that?
First rule of being wealthy is never use your own money. It’s why Mia lived in a rent stabilized apartment for decades.
They could also drive themselves to the theater every day like normal working Americans, but they will have production funded drivers.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 17, 2024 1:43 PM |
Lupone has quite the honker on her, doesn’t she?
by Anonymous | reply 113 | August 17, 2024 1:47 PM |
R112 No one actually said they had these interns, though. Just speculation,
by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 17, 2024 1:49 PM |
Mia posted a pic on instagram of her and Patti back in June. They were in someone's kitchen and Patti was holding a script. They probably ran lines on their own prior to rehearsals and I doubt they were paid or expected to be paid.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 17, 2024 1:59 PM |
R106 see R68.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | August 17, 2024 3:15 PM |
I am trying to think of a more abrasive pairing.
Bette Midler and Madonna?
Cyndi Lauper and Faye Dunaway?
Henry Rollins and Robert Downey Jr.?
Karen Black and Lauren Bacall?
Karen Black and anybody?
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 17, 2024 3:47 PM |
R117. Patti LuPone and Debra Winger. Oh. Wait.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 17, 2024 4:19 PM |
That nose could poke an eye out.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | August 17, 2024 4:25 PM |
Other than her contempt for Woody Allen's actions regarding Soon Yee and her allegations about her other children, I don't think Mia has ever had a reputation for being abrasive or difficult. Certainly not in her professional work. Quite the opposite, she's beloved within the industry.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 17, 2024 5:44 PM |
Jack O'Brien interview from a couple of weeks ago. He talks about "The Roommate" near the start.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 18, 2024 3:59 AM |
The play examines the disappearing act that society can force on less-powerful people, including older women. And portrays those all-but-sidelined individuals cannily subverting that erasure.
“That kind of invisibility — there’s a way that we internalize it, right?” says Jen Silverman. “And it does something to us to think of ourselves as invisible as well. But then there’s also a power inside it. What can you do when no one is looking?”
Jack O'Brien reported that Farrow and LuPone responded “almost chemically to the rhythms and the nuances so immediately recognizable and comfortable to them.”
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 18, 2024 4:07 AM |
[quote]The play examines the disappearing act that society can force on less-powerful people, including older women.
This is exactly what I think when I think Patti LuPone.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 18, 2024 1:01 PM |
How old are the women in the play supposed to be? Is Mia playing a freshly divorced 80 year old?
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 18, 2024 1:22 PM |
You're only as old as you feel, r124.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 18, 2024 1:30 PM |
According to this description of THE ROOMMATE, both characters are 50-something...
by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 18, 2024 1:44 PM |
So, basically the ages of Mia's oldest children.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | August 18, 2024 1:48 PM |
Miss Farrow and Miss LuPone are ageless. Spoken like a true press agent.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | August 18, 2024 1:51 PM |
That would be like when I was a teenager, Ruth Gordon and Helen Hayes trying to play 50-somethings.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | August 18, 2024 1:54 PM |
How Lupone continues to get work given her legendary mistreatment of fellow actors, crew, and fans is beyond me.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | August 18, 2024 2:44 PM |
Does Patti or Mia play the lesbian?
by Anonymous | reply 131 | August 18, 2024 8:20 PM |
We'll be sitting front row center opening night!
by Anonymous | reply 132 | August 18, 2024 8:26 PM |
I’d pay to have Glenn Close sit in the audience and when Patti enters say, “Oh, Jesus.”
by Anonymous | reply 133 | August 18, 2024 8:38 PM |
Video: Watch Patti LuPone Dazzle With Les Misérables and Gypsy Classics at Carnegie Hall
The three-time Tony winner recently returned to the famed concert venue with A Life in Notes.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | August 19, 2024 3:21 PM |
[quote]The three-time Tony winner
Just three?
by Anonymous | reply 135 | August 19, 2024 9:34 PM |
R134, that’s a DREADFUL performance. No nuance, no understanding of the song. Dreadful. And her PHRASING!
by Anonymous | reply 136 | August 20, 2024 12:33 AM |
The play examines the disappearing act that society can force on less-powerful people, including older women.
This is exactly what I wish when I think Patti Lupone.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | August 20, 2024 12:35 AM |
I don’t know about Sondheim & Patti’s relationship but despite some previous comments…he and Mia were quite close. I believe he was godfather to her younger kids.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | August 24, 2024 7:45 PM |
[quote]That would be like when I was a teenager, Ruth Gordon and Helen Hayes trying to play 50-somethings.
Helen is 73 here and Millie is 68.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | August 24, 2024 8:01 PM |
R139 To me that looks better than Mia with her altered face.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | August 25, 2024 12:30 PM |
R139 Patricia Routledge was 61-66 on Keeping Up Appearances.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | August 25, 2024 1:33 PM |
I did not know Mia Farrow had a voice for the stage.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | August 25, 2024 2:52 PM |
Mia was in the play, Romantic Comedy, around '79-'80 on Broadway with Tony Perkins, which ran about 400 perf's. (She also did Love Letters, with Brian Dennehy.)
by Anonymous | reply 143 | August 25, 2024 3:17 PM |
She also did the Virginia Woolf reading with Uta.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | August 25, 2024 3:59 PM |
She was so moving in Love Letters. I wasn't expecting what a fine actor she is. But she's excellent in some of her Allen films. I think she's better than her mother.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | August 25, 2024 4:33 PM |
[quote]I think she's better than her mother.
Seeing as her mother spent so much time swinging from vines in Tarzan movies, Mia had better material to work with.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | August 25, 2024 4:44 PM |
My favorite scene in Hannah is with Mia, Maureen and the great Lloyd Nolan where Hannah referees a fight between her parents. It's a beautifully written scene and they all act the hell out of it.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | August 25, 2024 9:03 PM |
Maureen O'Sullivan was in the long-running comedy (over 1000 performances) in the 1960s, Never Too Late (and repeated the role in the movie) - about a middle-aged wife and mother with a grown daughter who gets pregnant. She was in another hit show, in the early '80s, the revival of Morning's At Seven (which was also taped for TV). She was in a few other shows, too.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | August 25, 2024 9:15 PM |
R149 That's what I was saying.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | August 25, 2024 10:03 PM |
I saw that revival of Mornings at Seven. With all the plastic surgery actresses get today It would be hard to cast it with people who looked 'normal.' As in weathered faces that had aged. That revival was a hit. I don't know if anyone would even go to see the play today.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | August 26, 2024 11:57 PM |
R151. It was revived off Broadway a few years ago and closed quickly.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | August 27, 2024 12:12 AM |
[quote]It was revived off Broadway a few years ago and closed quickly.
Judith Ivey left the production before it opened. I think she was injured. They had a temporary actress play the role until Alley Mills took over. So it may have been under rehearsed.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | August 27, 2024 12:30 AM |
Patti's new recording is totally subpar. I can't believe she let it be released.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | August 27, 2024 4:15 AM |
I hadn't seen this Patti interview before.
Stephen Sondheim hurt me!
by Anonymous | reply 155 | August 27, 2024 5:53 AM |
[quote]Patti's new recording is totally subpar. I can't believe she let it be released.
She’s on Social Security. She has to bring in the money somehow. It’s either that or OnlyFans for Grannies. And we all know the Actor’s Home doesn’t accept troublemakers.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | August 27, 2024 10:49 AM |
IBDB says there was also a 2002 Broadway revival of Morning's At Seven that ran 112 performances. The original (1939) ran 44 performances. The revival in 1980 had 564 (it also was successful on the road).
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by Anonymous | reply 157 | August 27, 2024 4:09 PM |
No surprise that Mia's bio does not mention Woody.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | August 29, 2024 1:13 PM |
Mia I put in the category of impossible people who are talented, as I think she was and still is an extraordinary actress.
I have now experience with Lupone - is she deserving of her legend status, or is it all hot air and that Evita commercial from the 1970s? (I assume that was her).
by Anonymous | reply 159 | August 29, 2024 11:41 PM |
R160, I'm not sure that answers my question....
by Anonymous | reply 161 | August 30, 2024 12:02 AM |
Funny they mention the "classic" The Great Gatsby. She got mostly unfavorable reviews.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | August 30, 2024 12:24 AM |
First preview is sold out!
by Anonymous | reply 163 | August 30, 2024 12:28 AM |
How was it Marsha?
by Anonymous | reply 164 | August 30, 2024 3:02 AM |
First Look At Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow In THE ROOMMATE On Broadway
by Anonymous | reply 165 | August 30, 2024 3:14 AM |
R165. Photo credit: Marsha Mason
by Anonymous | reply 166 | August 30, 2024 3:26 AM |
LuPone looks like Vincent Gardenia in a wig.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | August 30, 2024 8:27 AM |
The definition of hatchet-faced.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | August 30, 2024 8:28 AM |
At least the wig looks like hair and not broomstick straw!
by Anonymous | reply 169 | August 30, 2024 1:15 PM |
R165, Patti really looks like a bad drag queen.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | August 30, 2024 6:47 PM |
R170 it’s like a revival of Wicked, but set in an old-folks home and Glinda stuck her finger in a socket!
by Anonymous | reply 171 | August 30, 2024 6:51 PM |
R171, that's a shockingly apt putdown. I could see them playing those roles.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | August 30, 2024 6:54 PM |
R171. Patti is playing a lez so maybe she sticks her finger in Mia's socket.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | August 30, 2024 7:56 PM |
The set has a staircase?!
by Anonymous | reply 174 | August 30, 2024 10:22 PM |
R174. Staircase???!!! Fuck that
by Anonymous | reply 175 | August 30, 2024 10:48 PM |
Odd that only a single photo has been released.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | August 30, 2024 11:05 PM |
R176 that was probably the best photo they could release.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | August 30, 2024 11:48 PM |
R176. Somebody probably snapped a pic with their iPhone during a dress rehearsal. They usually don't have a photo call until close to opening.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | August 31, 2024 12:03 AM |
While Farrow is content out of the spotlight, she describes her decision to do the production: "It was perhaps a feeling of maybe, 'Is this it? Or might there be one last adventure?' Meaning never do anything else for the reminder of my days? I'm very good at doing nothing."
LuPone counters her feeling, "I don't have Mia's mindset; I wish I did. I'm not good not working. I don't know what to do in spare time. I get extremely depressed because I feel useless."
When asked how she measures success, LuPone states: "I think it's longevity, I really do. I think if you're still working, If you're still vital, if they still want you to work at this time, that's success."
by Anonymous | reply 180 | September 1, 2024 6:54 PM |
I would rather talk to Mia than eat lunch!
by Anonymous | reply 182 | September 1, 2024 7:01 PM |
And LuPone is playing a dyke in this? Considering her legendary caneface, that works.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | September 1, 2024 7:02 PM |
MIa should take a cue from her young self on Peyton Place and cut her hair. The 80-year-old hippie with a face lift look is not good.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | September 1, 2024 8:14 PM |
Well Patti is definitely wearing a wig for the play. I wondered if maybe she had grown her hair since the Seth Meyers interview.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | September 1, 2024 8:17 PM |
The Roommate is a comedy about "an unexpected, life-changing friendship," a release says, "between two different middle-aged women as they navigate the complexities of identity, morality and the dream of reinvention."
The story is about two middle aged women? How many 150 year old women do you know??
by Anonymous | reply 186 | September 4, 2024 6:54 AM |
I think Mia thought cutting her hair while on PP would cause the producers to fire her. Instead it set a (stupid) trend of young girls all over the USA chopping their hair off. I think Mia pre-dated Twiggy's cut. She was stunning with her long blonde hair and looked the virginial innocent she was playing on PP. The short cropped Allison Mackenzie was rather sullen for the rest of her run.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | September 4, 2024 7:33 AM |
Broadway turned out to see favorites Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow for the first weekend of The Roommate, the new Jen Silverman play at the Booth. In its first weekend of previews, The Roommate played to over 100% of the Booth’s capacity, grossing $315,873 for four previews.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | September 4, 2024 2:30 PM |
LuPone said that Annette Bening was their first choice for her part, but producer Chris Harper and director Jack O’Brien said that isn’t true.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | September 4, 2024 2:53 PM |
Yikes that New York Times photo didn’t do any of them any favors!
by Anonymous | reply 191 | September 4, 2024 8:27 PM |
LuPone said, “Whatever anybody thinks about me is untrue. Period."
by Anonymous | reply 192 | September 4, 2024 8:48 PM |
Mia looks like the love child of Sissy Spacek and Amy Carter.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | September 4, 2024 10:17 PM |
Patti resigned from the labor union Actors’ Equity but is able to work on Broadway because of the Supreme Court’s “financial core” ruling, which makes it possible for a dues-paying nonunion member to work a union job.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | September 4, 2024 11:16 PM |
There's no risk, there's no call
For any action at all
When you have unions on your side
by Anonymous | reply 195 | September 4, 2024 11:18 PM |
A new Broadway drama
the chains of Equity untied
A new Broadway drama
The talent of this diva cannot be denied
by Anonymous | reply 196 | September 4, 2024 11:22 PM |
The thing I don't get about the production is--if it's about two middle-aged women, why not just cast two middle-aged women? There are middle-aged stars. Did these two women put up the money?
by Anonymous | reply 197 | September 5, 2024 2:20 AM |
[quote]r194 Patti is able to work on Broadway because of the Supreme Court’s “financial core” ruling, which makes it possible for a dues-paying nonunion member to work a union job.
[italic]Give ‘em hell, Patti![/italic]
Just keep an eye on that Farrow bitch. She’s probably the Equity Deputy, and keeping notes on you to slip back to headquarters.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | September 5, 2024 3:24 AM |
I hear Ronan Farrow's voice is heard in a phone call to Mia's character as her son. If Mia's supposed to playing 50, is Ronan supposed to be 25?
by Anonymous | reply 199 | September 5, 2024 3:36 AM |
What about how Patti wanted to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Liz McCann the producer wanted her then all of a sudden Edward Albee decided she was too completely on the nose for it.
“How can an actor be too on the nose for a role? I thought, ‘What the [expletive].’ Whatever.”
by Anonymous | reply 200 | September 5, 2024 5:35 AM |
Patti and Edward disagreed on her interpretation. She wanted Matha to have a musical number and sing The Long and Winding Road but Edward said no.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | September 5, 2024 5:46 AM |
Edward almost approved the casting, but then Gary Morton talked him out of it!
by Anonymous | reply 202 | September 5, 2024 12:01 PM |
Boy that’s a nasty profile of Patti.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | September 5, 2024 12:06 PM |
Too "on the nose" indeed!
by Anonymous | reply 204 | September 5, 2024 1:55 PM |
Patti’s got quite the schnoz! Yikes.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | September 5, 2024 2:04 PM |
[quote] What about how Patti wanted to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Martha would not be a stretch for Patti. She could just play herself.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | September 5, 2024 2:13 PM |
I feel like just picturing Patti as Martha in Virginia Woolf, you’ve already seen the whole production in your head.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | September 5, 2024 3:28 PM |
R206 - Terri Klausner
by Anonymous | reply 208 | September 5, 2024 3:41 PM |
Please remember that DL icon Sharon Scruggs was Terri Klausner‘s understudy for GOBLIN MARKET.
That is all.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | September 5, 2024 9:38 PM |
There is only Lupone who can lead Mia Farrow and team
Forget Annette Bening, on stage she is dull as Lyn Greene
She's amusing, when she's boozing, but then sometimes she is bruising
If not - how can our Patti be?
by Anonymous | reply 211 | September 6, 2024 12:24 AM |
I like Mia Farrow’s performances and am somehow able to forget everything I know about her personal life and drama, and simply enjoy her acting.
But I came to this thread primarily to see if anyone had mentioned Patti’s amazing schnozz. Thank you, DL, you do not disappoint.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | September 6, 2024 12:41 AM |
I saw Ms LuPone in almost everything, from “EVITA” To “War Paint”. A fan of epic proportions! I saw her in concerts and would fly to New York just to see her in whatever she was in. That was of course until I attended a performance at the Berman Center in West Bloomfield, MI, where she appeared with Seth Rudetsky. You had to have been a real fan to attend this event, but alas someone in the audience made a fateful error and took out her phone. She stopped the show, and the vulgarities flew out of Miss LuPones mouth and she berated the entire audience on their lack of ‘public manners’ for over 10 minutes.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate her message, but the delivery is wrong.
I vowed then and there never to fork over another cent to see her. I went into mourning, and it was years before I could even listen to her recordings.
Sorry, but her talent doesn’t make up for her own rude behavior.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | September 6, 2024 5:35 AM |
You witnessed a legend become unglued … and regret it??
by Anonymous | reply 214 | September 6, 2024 5:48 AM |
Patti’s nose a show stopper.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | September 6, 2024 6:22 AM |
I saw the show on Sunday and it is absolutely delightful. These two pros even seemed to drop a couple of lines which made them all the more wonderful. Don’t miss it.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | September 6, 2024 7:46 AM |
Patti is her own worst enemy.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | September 6, 2024 12:27 PM |
Maybe Patti should play Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Surely Albee would not think she is too on the nose for that.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | September 6, 2024 12:38 PM |
R218
by Anonymous | reply 219 | September 6, 2024 12:48 PM |
I just saw the play. It is definitely a trifle but with acting this grand, not sure it matters. And much of it is laugh out loud funny.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | September 6, 2024 8:42 PM |
Patti’s nose is more spacious than my EV’s frunk!
by Anonymous | reply 221 | September 6, 2024 8:54 PM |
If they're both such great actresses, maybe halfway thru the run they could switch roles and see how it plays out.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | September 6, 2024 9:22 PM |
Mia doesn’t want to have to say the word “Fag.” Ronan forbids it.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | September 6, 2024 9:31 PM |
Patti, on the other hand...
by Anonymous | reply 224 | September 6, 2024 9:45 PM |
R223. It's because Woody called him that when he was 12 years old! It's what Mia used to completely manipulate Ronan to her side.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | September 6, 2024 9:48 PM |
Question to Jack O'Brien.
What drew you to The Roommate, and how did you convince Patti and Mia to co-star?
We’re friends. After all these years in the business, I can call people and say, “Do you want to do this with me?” The play had been done several places, but not seriously, and when it came to me, I thought it was fantastic. Who’s writing parts for women that age? No one. Here’s a woman author writing about middle-aged women. I thought, “I’ve gotta have a hand in this.”
by Anonymous | reply 226 | September 7, 2024 5:57 AM |
I feel like Patti is starting to look like the Punch logo.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | September 7, 2024 6:04 AM |
R226 “I’ve got to have a hand in this!”
- we wish you wouldn’t.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | September 7, 2024 12:00 PM |
If The Roommate is a big fat hit after the reviews come out could they possibly extend the run with other actresses? Meryl and Glennie have always wanted to do a play together.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | September 7, 2024 12:38 PM |
[quote]These two pros even seemed to drop a couple of lines which made them all the more wonderful.
Why did that make them more wonderful?
by Anonymous | reply 230 | September 7, 2024 2:12 PM |
Star actresses are not allowed to get old anymore. Contrary to popular opinion they could in the past. That's why you could have Gish and Hepburn as old people. Men too. Though I know people were unnerved by seeing how old Astaire had gotten when they saw Finian's Rainbow and Ray Milland in Love Story.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | September 7, 2024 2:22 PM |
Patti wins by a nose!
by Anonymous | reply 232 | September 7, 2024 2:49 PM |
R231 Milland also didn't wear his toupee in Love Story.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | September 7, 2024 3:12 PM |
I love how actors and actresses used to grow old. Ethel Barrymore is one of my favorites. Can you imagine her with a lot of botox and junk, trying to act 50, with long hair? I have no problem with actors being their ages.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | September 7, 2024 3:14 PM |
I thought it was a weak script (IMHO), but Mia and Patti make up for it by giving great performances. It was funny, sweet, a little sad. Ronan playing Mia's son came as a complete surprise ;)
by Anonymous | reply 235 | September 7, 2024 9:27 PM |
These two pros even seemed to drop a couple of lines which made them all the more wonderful.
I bet Jen Silverman didn't find it so wonderful.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | September 8, 2024 1:37 AM |
What about when they start to campaign for awards opposite each other??!
by Anonymous | reply 237 | September 8, 2024 5:46 AM |
Jack O'Brien says
The play had been done several places, but not seriously,
FU - S. Epatha Merkerson
by Anonymous | reply 238 | September 8, 2024 5:47 AM |
[quote]I vowed then and there never to fork over another cent to see her. I went into mourning, and it was years before I could even listen to her recordings.
MARY!
by Anonymous | reply 239 | September 8, 2024 6:23 AM |
R229 Or maybe even some age-appropriate ones.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | September 8, 2024 10:57 AM |
[quote] What about when they start to campaign for awards opposite each other??!
This show will be long forgotten by April.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | September 8, 2024 1:13 PM |
Are they going to open SNL50?
by Anonymous | reply 242 | September 8, 2024 1:30 PM |
Mia doesn't seem like the type to care about awards. Patti, on the other hand........
by Anonymous | reply 243 | September 8, 2024 2:08 PM |
Nobody cares about this outside NYC
by Anonymous | reply 244 | September 8, 2024 3:21 PM |
[quote]Nobody cares about this outside NYC
I'm outside NYC
I care
I'm somebody
by Anonymous | reply 245 | September 8, 2024 3:26 PM |
No, you aren't.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | September 8, 2024 3:43 PM |
Jen Silverman has added a new moment.
Patti: What's that smell?
Mia: It's tannis root. It fends off lesbian sexual advances.
Patti: I don't appreciate such cheap tactics.
Mia: Cheap? Do you know how expensive tannis root is?!
by Anonymous | reply 247 | September 9, 2024 7:22 PM |
Playwright Jen Silverman Talks all thing The Roommate on Broadway
by Anonymous | reply 248 | September 12, 2024 4:19 AM |
Patti and Mia are so gracious and generous!
by Anonymous | reply 249 | September 12, 2024 4:24 AM |
I wonder if they carpool in together from Connecticut.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | September 12, 2024 5:19 AM |
They fly parallel brooms.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | September 12, 2024 6:27 AM |
Somehow Patti is doing this show and her one woman show in Chicago simultaneously on October 4.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | September 12, 2024 6:31 AM |
She has too much talent for just one stage.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | September 12, 2024 1:12 PM |
Looks like there is the genre de rigueur weed smoking scene.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | September 12, 2024 10:02 PM |
A friend saw it and loved it.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | September 12, 2024 10:23 PM |
Don’t miss my cameo!
by Anonymous | reply 257 | September 12, 2024 10:36 PM |
Ronan at the premiere. Pic on the DailyMail though so can't link.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | September 13, 2024 6:36 AM |
Why do all the old ladies who have work done on their faces have those enormous lips?
by Anonymous | reply 261 | September 13, 2024 3:07 PM |
It’s getting good reviews. Mia seems to fare the best out of the two. Possible Tony nod?
by Anonymous | reply 262 | September 13, 2024 5:11 PM |
Has Patti always looked like that?
by Anonymous | reply 263 | September 13, 2024 5:20 PM |
R263. Yes but Mia hasn't always looked like that.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | September 13, 2024 5:31 PM |
They need to see your lips from the back of the house.
It’s required.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | September 13, 2024 6:45 PM |
I thought there would be a bigger celebrity turnout for the opening.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | September 13, 2024 7:44 PM |
Mia to her plastic surgeon: My lips. What have you done to my lips?
Surgeon: I've given you your mother's lips.
Mia: You maniac!
by Anonymous | reply 267 | September 13, 2024 9:13 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 268 | September 13, 2024 11:27 PM |
I've reached my monthly article limit for Vulture.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | September 14, 2024 2:38 AM |
Farrow and LuPone are fun to watch — especially Farrow, whose church-mouse character gradually blossoms with the demurely unhinged glee of a midwestern Mephistopheles — and Silverman has written a good number of funny things for them to say. Their chemistry is spicy and real, and there’s nothing wrong with having a straight-up good time. The trouble is that there’s something weird and sour going on in Silverman’s play that precludes uncomplicated enjoyment of its comedy but never quite touches anything really profound. Beneath its veneer, The Roommate is in an on-again, off-again relationship with its own conscience. It doesn’t know quite what it wants to do or say, or, crucially, exactly how bad it wants to break.
... It may be given a glossy sheen and a smattering of good punch lines in The Roommate, but it sends us out into the night with the dull sensation of wondering what exactly we were clapping for.
by Anonymous | reply 271 | September 14, 2024 7:18 AM |
The Roommate will continue to sell out with Patti and Mia. Given the meh reviews for the play itself I doubt it will continue without them.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | September 14, 2024 11:49 AM |
Patti looks so uncomfortable on the stairs like that.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | September 14, 2024 1:59 PM |
Do they mean Mia's replacement is Carol Halstead?
by Anonymous | reply 277 | September 14, 2024 9:56 PM |
What will Patti do if everyone demands refunds because Mia isn't there? I certainly would.
by Anonymous | reply 278 | September 14, 2024 10:18 PM |
Soon-Yi is ready to step in. Again.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | September 14, 2024 10:20 PM |
Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow Take Opening Night Bows
by Anonymous | reply 280 | September 15, 2024 3:02 AM |
Say, is Patti eating a banana on OP's photo?
by Anonymous | reply 281 | September 15, 2024 5:54 AM |
Ronan’s pics…I hope he lays off the plastic surgery. He’s only 36, and he was gorgeous before he started tinkering. Leave it alone!
by Anonymous | reply 282 | September 15, 2024 11:56 AM |
I'm wondering if Jack O'Brien will convince his ass't director Marsha Mason to go on for Mia this week so as not to lose all that box office momentum.
by Anonymous | reply 283 | September 15, 2024 12:46 PM |
Oh Joshua Johnston in the opening pics is Patti's son.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | September 15, 2024 1:27 PM |
Naturally a diva has a son that is actually attractive and of course he’s straight!
by Anonymous | reply 285 | September 15, 2024 1:59 PM |
So Marsha will be on for Mia today SCRIPT IN HAND. Fuck that. I would still get a refund.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | September 15, 2024 6:39 PM |
R287, link?
by Anonymous | reply 288 | September 15, 2024 7:27 PM |
Marsha Mason subbing for Patti (not Mia) might actually get me to the theater.
by Anonymous | reply 289 | September 15, 2024 11:10 PM |
Marsha should have had both parts DOWN before rehearsals even began.
How dare she make Patti take a step back in the process like this.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | September 15, 2024 11:18 PM |
Marsha Mason Steps Into Broadway's ‘The Roommate' For Covid-Struck Mia Farrow
"I was called to step in by the producers while enjoying a lovely Sunday morning in Connecticut, and of course, came right to the City,” said Mason, who has played numerous roles on stage (The Prisoner of Second Avenue), film (The Goodbye Girl) and TV (The Middle). “These moments in the theater are equally exciting and terrifying, and the audience helped make it a fun ride. I was exhilarated to play opposite Patti and especially heartened to be able to pinch hit for my Connecticut dear friend and neighbor, Mia, who is quite marvelous in the role."
Mason will perform at least partially with script in hand.
by Anonymous | reply 291 | September 15, 2024 11:51 PM |
I thought at first this Marsha Mason assistant director just happened to have the same name but now realize it is THE Marsha Mason, actress.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | September 15, 2024 11:54 PM |
The show has an understudy, Carol Halstead, but apparently opted to go with Mason, who is far better known, and whose own name recognition might help stanch cancellations by ticketholders hoping to see Farrow.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | September 16, 2024 7:20 AM |
Terri Klausner was available, but…
by Anonymous | reply 295 | September 16, 2024 7:44 AM |
Marsha Mason has four Oscar nominations against Mia and Patti’s combined zero. I’m sure she’ll do fine.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | September 16, 2024 11:16 AM |
So you can get a job as an understudy, show up, do the work, be ready….and they’ll stick in the assistant director with script in hand? And there’s no union protection against that? Dang, showbiz is the cruelest mistress.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | September 16, 2024 11:22 AM |
The understudy was paid, r297. End of story.
by Anonymous | reply 298 | September 16, 2024 12:09 PM |
This scenario is more than a little Valley of the Dolls. Patti was not happy that Mia was getting the better reviews. The only hit that comes out of a Patti LuPone show is Patti LuPone. The barracuda with the hard core had to tie a can to that little broad's tale. And she's from Long Island so Patti knows people. All it took was spiking Mia's Bigelow Whispering Wildflowers Tea and voila! Mia is out and Marsha is in.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | September 16, 2024 4:48 PM |
I'm seeing lots of references to 'middle aged women'. Even the director mentioned 'middle aged' so I assume it's a significant part of the storyline. Do the characters have 20 something children, lovers, hot flashes, jobs? Is there dialogue that sounds totally absurd out of the mouth of an 80 year old?
by Anonymous | reply 300 | September 16, 2024 7:42 PM |
Patti looks like the child stealer on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | September 16, 2024 8:08 PM |
Wonder who will be on tomorrow night. Mia? Marsha? Carol? Jack?
by Anonymous | reply 303 | September 17, 2024 2:14 AM |
WE WANT S. EPATHA! WE WANT S. EPATHA!
by Anonymous | reply 304 | September 17, 2024 4:06 AM |
What’s Sara Porkalob up to? If she just has to hold a script she can give 50%.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | September 17, 2024 5:33 AM |
Marsha will be on tonite.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | September 17, 2024 2:32 PM |
Marsha orchestrated this whole gdamn thing, for her own benefit and adulation.
by Anonymous | reply 307 | September 17, 2024 2:40 PM |
I feel bad for the understudy; what’s the point of having one if they’re not going to use her?
by Anonymous | reply 308 | September 17, 2024 3:19 PM |
Why do you feel bad for her? She is still being paid.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | September 17, 2024 4:27 PM |
I hope audiences appreciate the chance of hitting the disgusting cunt Mia with rotten food, if she ever returns from her "COVID," and if Patti gets tomato seeds and rotten Romaine chunks on her costumes, at least it will be fun seeing her go nuts over it.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | September 17, 2024 4:31 PM |
Who the hell does Marsha Mason think she is?
Jack O'Brien's assistant to star
What kind of promotion is that?
Patti LuPone deserves better than Neil Simon's cast-off
If The Roommate can do without Mia than Patti Lupone can do without The Roommate
by Anonymous | reply 311 | September 17, 2024 4:34 PM |
Marsha is a legend. How many Oscar nominations do you have, R311?
by Anonymous | reply 312 | September 17, 2024 4:38 PM |
Opening night stars footage just released.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | September 17, 2024 4:42 PM |
[quote]So you can get a job as an understudy, show up, do the work, be ready….and they’ll stick in the assistant director with script in hand? And there’s no union protection against that? Dang, showbiz is the cruelest mistress.
What r298 and r309 said, r297. The understidy's union protection is that she gets paid as if she went on.
It isn't like this is unprecedented. John Hill and Kevin Spirtas (I know - who?) were respectively Hugh Jackman's understudy and standby in The Boy From Oz. When Jackman was out for a week, the show took a hiatus.
Who's gonna tell r312 that r311 is parodying a verse from Evita?
by Anonymous | reply 314 | September 17, 2024 4:42 PM |
Choo-choo 😢🚂
by Anonymous | reply 315 | September 17, 2024 4:43 PM |
Marsha should have won for Only When I Laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 317 | September 17, 2024 4:56 PM |
Broadway's fallen for the charms of sweet Marsha
She has stepped over Covid, without causing fuss
She's the white way's Madonna with the golden touch
She filled the Booth Theatre's 800 capacity seater
But if you're prettier than Mia Farrow that's not hard
by Anonymous | reply 318 | September 17, 2024 4:59 PM |
Marsha is now plotting to get rid of Patti and bring in Kristy McNichol.
by Anonymous | reply 319 | September 17, 2024 5:14 PM |
Harvey interview posted in last 24 hours and mentions The Roommate.
by Anonymous | reply 320 | September 17, 2024 10:20 PM |
I even liked working with Bette Midler!
by Anonymous | reply 321 | September 17, 2024 11:37 PM |
That was a wonderful interview, R320. And Marsha was right - the interviewer was incredibly prepared and very kind.
She is a wise person. I got a lot out of some of her meditations.
I wanted her to talk about The Roommate, of course!
by Anonymous | reply 322 | September 18, 2024 12:16 AM |
Mia must still have Mob connections from her Sinatra days.
Marsha better not get too comfortable up there. She best [italic]watch her fuckin’ ass.
by Anonymous | reply 323 | September 18, 2024 1:28 AM |
So, wait! Was Jane Karkowski the only "star" who showed up on opening night??
by Anonymous | reply 324 | September 18, 2024 3:08 AM |
Goodbye, girl!
by Anonymous | reply 325 | September 18, 2024 3:14 AM |
What if Marsha is Tony nominated for her performance, and neither Mia or Patti are??
by Anonymous | reply 326 | September 18, 2024 3:38 AM |
R326 I’ll tear up my Equity card!!!
Oh, wait…
by Anonymous | reply 327 | September 18, 2024 6:34 AM |
lots of vacant seats for today's matinee.
by Anonymous | reply 328 | September 18, 2024 6:44 AM |
Marsha Mason stepped into the role on book. Mia has understudy Carol Halstead. Why not use her?
Is it better for box office receipts to have Marsha be on book than to use the understudy who presumably has rehearsed the role off book?
by Anonymous | reply 329 | September 18, 2024 6:54 AM |
Mia, honey, you did it all wrong. It’s not the lips on your face that need to be seen all the way to the back of the room………let me come back stage and show you what I mean.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | September 18, 2024 7:08 AM |
Mia should not be left alone at this time.
There should be guards posted outside her door.
by Anonymous | reply 331 | September 18, 2024 7:44 AM |
Wonder if Marsha can play both parts. If Patti is going to Chicago in October someone else is presumably playing her part.
by Anonymous | reply 332 | September 18, 2024 8:05 AM |
^^ My. GOD!
Marsha is a MONSTER if she’s planning a 1-woman show like that!
by Anonymous | reply 333 | September 18, 2024 12:53 PM |
Lots of tickets available for tonight.
by Anonymous | reply 334 | September 18, 2024 10:34 PM |
Mia was what the people were coming to see.
Definitely not the fishwife or that horrible Mason person!
by Anonymous | reply 335 | September 18, 2024 11:21 PM |
[quote]r335 Mia was what the people were coming to see.
Has she realized this, and is pulling some Olde School contract (re)negotiation? SPOILER: there is no Covid!
by Anonymous | reply 337 | September 19, 2024 1:18 AM |
Marsha hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear
She won't go scrambling over the script just to be accepted
She's too busy eating batches of creamy fudge and dating Troy Garity
by Anonymous | reply 338 | September 19, 2024 2:06 AM |
R336 That’s her “I hate Bill Smitrovich” smile.
by Anonymous | reply 339 | September 19, 2024 3:44 AM |
Not good when a whole row of the mezzanine is available.
by Anonymous | reply 341 | September 20, 2024 6:20 AM |
Two dykes, one really shitty script, and a nose that Jimmy Durante would call applauding.
What the fuck could go wrong…………
by Anonymous | reply 342 | September 20, 2024 8:50 AM |
I get Marsha Mason and Jill Clayburgh confused. I saw one in Pippin, one in The Rothschilds and one in Barefoot in the Park. Isn't one dead?
by Anonymous | reply 343 | September 20, 2024 8:40 PM |
Jill is dead.
by Anonymous | reply 344 | September 20, 2024 11:30 PM |
Mia beware of the biddy
Marsha's hungry and old
Can't be controlled, she's a cad!
Don't be confused by her spiritual soul
It's an act and she's just a bum, mid-western Catholic crumb,
Too fond of navy rum, she's deranged.
by Anonymous | reply 345 | September 20, 2024 11:41 PM |
Hey you - Marsha Mason
I've spew and I wanna spew it all over you
It will stick like glue
You get outta here, Marsha Mason
Stand down! You oughta know I hate you with a glee
You have none of Mia's star quality!
by Anonymous | reply 346 | September 20, 2024 11:55 PM |
Jill died, but Erica lives.
by Anonymous | reply 347 | September 21, 2024 12:12 AM |
Mia is back on stage.
by Anonymous | reply 348 | September 21, 2024 12:18 AM |
Don't cry for me Patti Lupone
The truth is I never left you
All through my illness
Covid existence
I kept my promise
Return appearance
by Anonymous | reply 349 | September 21, 2024 1:00 AM |
Goodbye and thank you dear Marsha
You've completed your task
There's no more to be asked of you now
Please make your way through the aisle and front door
That will be all, if we need you we'll call
But we don't think that's likely somehow
by Anonymous | reply 351 | September 21, 2024 4:36 AM |
MARSHA: I don't expect my fill-in jobs to last for long / Never fool myself a big check will come through / Remembering limos, I dream of a Rolls Royce / I resent Elaine Joyce, wouldn't you? / So what happens now?
PATTI: Another blowjob in another stall
MARSHA: So what happens now?
PATTI: Put your mouth around another ball
MARSHA: Where am I going to?
PATTI: You'll get wed, you always have before
MARSHA: Where am I going to?
PATTI: Don’t ask anymore
by Anonymous | reply 352 | September 21, 2024 5:04 AM |
Now I feel the roaring fire that burned in Neil
When he wrote his greatest plays
Fueled by the love and passion of his Muse
And now she is mine: Marsha
by Anonymous | reply 353 | September 21, 2024 5:23 AM |
R324 So, wait! Was Jane Karkowski the only "star" who showed up on opening night??
and Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Joy Behar, Wendell Pierce, Marc Shaiman, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kathy Najimy, Cindy Adams, and a bunch of others I have never heard of.
by Anonymous | reply 354 | September 21, 2024 8:04 AM |
Oh but it's sad when an acting job dies
I'm back to mopping the floors
Darling Patti left note that she'd treasure our time
But Mia wrote up yours
by Anonymous | reply 356 | September 21, 2024 3:44 PM |
[quote] Mia is a psycho
MIA IS BITCH
by Anonymous | reply 357 | September 21, 2024 3:47 PM |
[quote]and Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Joy Behar, Wendell Pierce, Marc Shaiman, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kathy Najimy, Cindy Adams, and a bunch of others I have never heard of.
More stars than there are in heaven!
by Anonymous | reply 358 | September 21, 2024 3:48 PM |
R355, that is a shocking display of unattractive people in show business. When you see someone attractive, you stop on the picture and think "they must have felt so alone at this premier".
by Anonymous | reply 359 | September 21, 2024 4:40 PM |
It's Broadway, not Hollywood. You don't have to beautiful to be on Broadway.
by Anonymous | reply 360 | September 21, 2024 11:43 PM |
Those opening night red carpet photos are unflattering to even the prettiest people. Between the garish lighting and the bad angles, no one wins. I'd never pose for them (not that anyone's asked).
by Anonymous | reply 361 | September 22, 2024 3:09 AM |
interviews. Jen Silverman is like a 12 year old boy.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | September 22, 2024 5:34 AM |
Is her middle name Annie?
Annie Rexic?
by Anonymous | reply 363 | September 22, 2024 5:43 AM |
I scrolled past a picture of her and assumed it was someone’s 12 year old son. Yikes. They/Them I assume.
by Anonymous | reply 364 | September 22, 2024 10:14 AM |
O'Brien's next project is Ibsen's "Ghosts" at Lincoln Center. Will Mrs. Alving be Marsha, Mia, or Patti?
by Anonymous | reply 365 | September 22, 2024 5:31 PM |
I had never heard of Bridget Everett until now. But fat girls shouldn't wear strapless dresses.
by Anonymous | reply 366 | September 22, 2024 5:53 PM |
Mia looks the same on stage and off.
by Anonymous | reply 367 | September 23, 2024 1:25 AM |
I hear Jack O'Brien's GHOSTS at LCT will star Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Hawke's 2 kids (with Uma).
by Anonymous | reply 368 | September 23, 2024 3:36 AM |
They/Them I assume.
Not sure about Jen Silverman. But Murray Hill definitely.
by Anonymous | reply 369 | September 23, 2024 5:14 AM |
Two iconic celebrities muddle through a contemporary Broadway play that has very little to say about anything.
by Anonymous | reply 370 | September 24, 2024 3:52 PM |
I haven’t seen the play but every review suggests that the characters are empty stereotypes. If you asked a person from Timbuktu about Iowa they’d say farms, uncultured yokels and timid blonde women. Ask them about the Bronx they’d say leather jackets and gaudy gold jewlery and domineering personalities. It’s fascinating that a gender neutral youngish American playwright has leaned on these tropes. If I wrote a play that featured a gender neutral they/them character who lives in Brooklyn, wears Birkenstocks, works as a barista in a vegan coffee shop and has a 12 year old boys haircut they’d hit the ceiling at my shallow writing.
Even switching the actors would add some depth but Patti as a New York lesbian in Tony Soprano’s jacket is too on the nose.
by Anonymous | reply 371 | September 24, 2024 4:50 PM |
In modern days a glimpse of leather
is looked upon as kink forever
in Broadway shows, character clothes
by Anonymous | reply 372 | September 24, 2024 8:24 PM |
OMG R355 Those pics are tragic! At least Michael Arden has dropped that weight. The threesomes and foursomes with Andy Mentius might be more comfortable now. Thank God I don't do red carpets anymore. The only one that looks good is Laura Bell Bundy probably cause she left NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 373 | September 25, 2024 1:00 AM |
Jesus Christ those red carpet photos were horrific!
Everyone looks bloated and bad!
by Anonymous | reply 374 | September 25, 2024 2:11 AM |
With Mia back attendance this week is said to be at 85% of capacity. Wednesday matinee sold well, but lots of seats available for Wednesday evening.
by Anonymous | reply 375 | September 25, 2024 10:26 AM |
I have tickets the last week of October, I hope it holds on to at least that time!
by Anonymous | reply 376 | September 25, 2024 1:25 PM |
Curtain call for Mia's return. I hope Patti didn't spot the crumb filming.
by Anonymous | reply 377 | September 26, 2024 10:59 PM |
The sets look so cheap. The costumes are cheap. Joan Jett and Cindy Brady donated their old wigs. Unless Patti and Mia are being paid a small fortune then this should be making a profit if it sells 70%.
Speaking of salaries I assume it's equal money. Patti dismissively rolled her eyes at the idea of Annette Bening being offered the part so she won't take 'but movie star' as a reason for being paid less.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | September 27, 2024 6:56 PM |
Lupone is extremely UGLY in op’s pic and I’m getting really tired of seeing it on here all of the time.
by Anonymous | reply 379 | September 27, 2024 7:04 PM |
r377, is that really the curtain call for Mia's return or is it actually opening night?
by Anonymous | reply 380 | September 27, 2024 8:24 PM |
Yes I think it is opening night unless Ronan and Joshua came back again for Mia's return. The footage was only released recently.
by Anonymous | reply 381 | September 27, 2024 10:31 PM |
I love how they do 1pm Wed and Thurs matinees. Hell, since the play is only 90 mins long you can see it on your lunch hour.
by Anonymous | reply 383 | September 27, 2024 10:52 PM |
The Roommate is the perfect play to see on your lunch hour with your Pret sandwich and bag of chips on your lap.
Bang-Bang Chicken Wrap would be particularly marvelous!
by Anonymous | reply 384 | September 28, 2024 12:52 AM |
Today's matinee cancelled (9/28). Apparently, Patti is ill.
by Anonymous | reply 385 | September 28, 2024 6:58 PM |
R385, and the audience was seated when it was announced
by Anonymous | reply 386 | September 28, 2024 7:38 PM |
R385 Jesus that is frustrating. Surely she would have tested prior to the audience being seated
by Anonymous | reply 387 | September 28, 2024 7:53 PM |
Is it now Marsha and Mia as the odd couple?
by Anonymous | reply 388 | September 29, 2024 12:35 AM |
Aha there is no performance on Friday anyway to accommodate Patti's show in Chicago. But next performance of this show is Tuesday night and it has a lot of tickets available.
by Anonymous | reply 389 | September 29, 2024 12:42 AM |
I wonder if the reason Mia and Patti keep getting sick is they go to a lot of unmasked sex parties (?)
They need to reel in the harlotry and cross their legs until the show closes.
by Anonymous | reply 390 | September 29, 2024 12:48 AM |
Did they both go on for the 9/28 evening show?
by Anonymous | reply 391 | September 29, 2024 12:53 AM |
Sorry, but there must have been some really weird shit going on backstage if they didn't know Patti was unable to go on (Or tested + for Covid) until after the entire audience was seated. That's just crazy........
by Anonymous | reply 392 | September 29, 2024 1:03 AM |
Marsha locked Patti in her dressing room and wouldn't give the key.
by Anonymous | reply 393 | September 29, 2024 1:06 AM |
Evening performance also cancelled.
by Anonymous | reply 394 | September 29, 2024 1:14 AM |
Girls, GIRLS!! You’re BOTH walking vectors of disease!
by Anonymous | reply 395 | September 29, 2024 2:55 AM |
They should change that cheap set to a hospital room for the rest of the run.
by Anonymous | reply 396 | September 29, 2024 6:39 AM |
The scene where Patti is prone on the staircase did in her back. No doubt, an idea that came from Marsha.
by Anonymous | reply 397 | September 29, 2024 6:45 AM |
Oh r384 you Americans never let anything, even watching a play, get in the way of you eating.
by Anonymous | reply 398 | September 29, 2024 7:41 AM |
I’m rooting g for COVID!
by Anonymous | reply 399 | September 29, 2024 7:47 AM |
Was today's matinee cancelled?
by Anonymous | reply 400 | September 29, 2024 6:27 PM |
Next performance advertised is Tuesday evening,
by Anonymous | reply 401 | September 29, 2024 6:32 PM |
9/29 matinee cancelled as well. They only have one understudy for both parts.
by Anonymous | reply 402 | September 29, 2024 6:49 PM |
But they have Marsha!
by Anonymous | reply 403 | September 29, 2024 10:44 PM |
Thursday has a matinee but no evening show. And OMG the theatre is nearly all available for tickets. This is not looking good.
by Anonymous | reply 405 | October 2, 2024 11:39 PM |
No limo, no fur, no flavah.
by Anonymous | reply 406 | October 2, 2024 11:58 PM |
No performance Friday for Patti to go to Chicago. Saturday matinee and evening selling well.
by Anonymous | reply 407 | October 4, 2024 1:00 AM |
Sunday matinee selling well though one whole row is available in the mezzanine.
by Anonymous | reply 408 | October 6, 2024 2:45 AM |
Tuesday night nearly sold out.
by Anonymous | reply 409 | October 8, 2024 10:30 PM |
[quote]r409 Tuesday night nearly sold out.
What are the odds Marsha is sending Covid laden flowers to our gals every night?
The taste of Broadway is in her mouth again!
by Anonymous | reply 410 | October 9, 2024 12:16 AM |
Sunday matinee nearly sold out.
by Anonymous | reply 411 | October 13, 2024 3:55 AM |
I love the whole Marsha Mason element of this new theatrical experience.
by Anonymous | reply 412 | October 13, 2024 1:50 PM |
Lots of seats for Tuesday evening.
by Anonymous | reply 413 | October 14, 2024 12:59 AM |
^^ Why? Is Marsha going on?
by Anonymous | reply 414 | October 14, 2024 5:26 AM |