Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow, both set to return to Broadway in The Roommate, recently appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers (2024)

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.

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by Anonymousreply 414October 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 Anonymousreply 1August 15, 2024 12:48 AM

I loved Mia Farrow in Woody Allen's movie, 'Broadway Danny Rose.' So damn funny.

by Anonymousreply 2August 15, 2024 12:55 AM

Is a three week rehearsal all that short for a non-musical?

by Anonymousreply 3August 15, 2024 1:50 AM

Patti's looks have really hardened.

by Anonymousreply 4August 15, 2024 1:53 AM

Kee-ripes, look the size of that honker!

by Anonymousreply 5August 15, 2024 1:57 AM

She looks like Walter Matthau!

by Anonymousreply 6August 15, 2024 2:03 AM

[quote]Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone

Just three?

by Anonymousreply 7August 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 Anonymousreply 8August 15, 2024 3:12 AM

Never be photographed in direct profile, Patti.

by Anonymousreply 9August 15, 2024 3:14 AM

She's an old Italian woman what do you want?

by Anonymousreply 10August 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 Anonymousreply 11August 15, 2024 3:22 AM

Oh, great.

Another retread of "The Olden Girls."

by Anonymousreply 12August 15, 2024 3:28 AM

Did Patti bash Andrew Lloyd Webber?

by Anonymousreply 13August 15, 2024 3:31 AM

I wanna see this show!

by Anonymousreply 14August 15, 2024 3:44 AM

Did her nose get longer as she aged?

by Anonymousreply 15August 15, 2024 3:55 AM

She looks psycho.

by Anonymousreply 16August 15, 2024 4:48 AM

I've seen that profile before....

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by Anonymousreply 17August 15, 2024 5:19 AM

Patti was so funny on Seth! Mia is a psycho but is still see this show.

by Anonymousreply 18August 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 Anonymousreply 19August 15, 2024 5:42 AM

Patti has anger issues and MIA IS BITCH!

by Anonymousreply 20August 15, 2024 5:48 AM

Mia is rather annoyed she's not getting more rehearsal time. Only three weeks. Not even four!!

by Anonymousreply 21August 15, 2024 7:09 AM

Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow is 79 years old.

Mia...do something with your hair.

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by Anonymousreply 22August 15, 2024 7:11 AM

Mia's godparents were director George Cukor and columnist Louella Parsons.

by Anonymousreply 23August 15, 2024 7:12 AM

Mia is Hollywood royalty.

by Anonymousreply 24August 15, 2024 7:13 AM

Patti is not a Hollywood legend. A Broadway legend yes.

by Anonymousreply 25August 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 Anonymousreply 26August 15, 2024 11:37 AM

Is Patti playing Felix or Oscar?

by Anonymousreply 27August 15, 2024 11:59 AM

She’s playing the apartment, Rose.

by Anonymousreply 28August 15, 2024 12:09 PM

Mia: Clean up this mess!

Patti: After I sing this song.

by Anonymousreply 29August 15, 2024 12:11 PM

So what happened with Patti’s dramatic resignation from Equity?

by Anonymousreply 30August 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 Anonymousreply 31August 15, 2024 1:13 PM

Abruzzi is in Italy. She's half Italian.

by Anonymousreply 32August 15, 2024 1:17 PM

I think the point is that she’s 100% Italian.

by Anonymousreply 33August 15, 2024 1:25 PM

Thank you.

by Anonymousreply 34August 15, 2024 1:30 PM

I wonder if they'll "stage door" - it seems to be de rigueur these days.

by Anonymousreply 35August 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 Anonymousreply 36August 15, 2024 2:55 PM

Ages 75 and 79. What ages will they be playing onstage?

by Anonymousreply 37August 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 Anonymousreply 38August 15, 2024 3:15 PM

Mia Farrow in "The Purple Rose of Cairo".....I LOVE that movie!!

by Anonymousreply 39August 15, 2024 3:27 PM

Such an unlikely "friendship"

by Anonymousreply 40August 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 Anonymousreply 41August 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 Anonymousreply 42August 15, 2024 3:45 PM

Did Patti say anything publicly against Debra Winger about that disastrous Mamet production they were in?

by Anonymousreply 43August 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 Anonymousreply 44August 15, 2024 4:29 PM

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by Anonymousreply 45August 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 Anonymousreply 46August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 47August 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 Anonymousreply 48August 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 Anonymousreply 49August 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!

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by Anonymousreply 50August 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 Anonymousreply 51August 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 Anonymousreply 52August 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 Anonymousreply 53August 15, 2024 5:43 PM

Cancelled in rehearsals due to creative differences.

by Anonymousreply 54August 15, 2024 5:43 PM

If Mia pulls out, Diane Weist will do it.

If Patti pulls out, Betty Buckley will do it.

by Anonymousreply 55August 15, 2024 6:15 PM

Why so bitter R41? Seek help.

by Anonymousreply 56August 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 Anonymousreply 57August 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 Anonymousreply 58August 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 Anonymousreply 59August 15, 2024 7:13 PM

Previews: Aug 29, 2024 • Opening: Sep 12, 2024 • Closing: Dec 15, 2024.

by Anonymousreply 60August 15, 2024 7:17 PM

West Coast Tour announced starring Ronan Farrow and Jason Gould.

by Anonymousreply 61August 15, 2024 7:21 PM

R60 if it’s like Patti’s last play, The Anarchist, then closing will be September 19th.

by Anonymousreply 62August 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 Anonymousreply 63August 15, 2024 7:41 PM

Maybe a lot of the show is mime or improvised.

by Anonymousreply 64August 15, 2024 7:51 PM

Sicily is part of Italy. Sicily is not its own country.

by Anonymousreply 65August 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 Anonymousreply 66August 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 Anonymousreply 67August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 68August 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 Anonymousreply 69August 15, 2024 9:31 PM

Why didn't they do a Deuce revival?

by Anonymousreply 70August 15, 2024 10:03 PM

R65 Ask a northern Italian.

by Anonymousreply 71August 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 Anonymousreply 72August 15, 2024 10:17 PM

R67. Good point

by Anonymousreply 73August 15, 2024 10:18 PM

Patti has clearly hit the Ozempic bar.

by Anonymousreply 74August 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 Anonymousreply 75August 15, 2024 10:28 PM

Q: Where is Mary Martin?

Carol Channing: She's at home learning her lines.

by Anonymousreply 76August 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 Anonymousreply 77August 15, 2024 11:37 PM

Once, twas Italy that was Sicily.

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by Anonymousreply 78August 15, 2024 11:43 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 Anonymousreply 79August 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 Anonymousreply 80August 16, 2024 12:42 AM

They didn’t protect her though. Isn’t that what she paid for?

by Anonymousreply 81August 16, 2024 12:56 AM

[quote]They didn’t protect her though.

How did they not protect her?

by Anonymousreply 82August 16, 2024 12:57 AM

Patti does t need protection. The rest of us need protection from her!

by Anonymousreply 83August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 84August 16, 2024 8:14 AM

I’d rather see Faye Dunaway and Brendad Ickson together than these two no talent cows.

by Anonymousreply 85August 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 Anonymousreply 86August 16, 2024 12:48 PM

r86 She says in the interview they worked together on the Agatha All Along TV show

by Anonymousreply 87August 16, 2024 1:07 PM

Never heard of Agatha All Along. What the hell was that?

by Anonymousreply 88August 16, 2024 1:29 PM

^ It was a snuff film, Rose.

by Anonymousreply 89August 16, 2024 1:33 PM

Some Marvel series with that ugly guy from Heartfrauers

by Anonymousreply 90August 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 Anonymousreply 91August 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 Anonymousreply 92August 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 Anonymousreply 93August 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 Anonymousreply 94August 16, 2024 5:04 PM

R94. - Long standing member of The Gallery Players.

by Anonymousreply 95August 16, 2024 5:17 PM

Between her nose and her chin she has a PERFECT Crescent Moon Face.

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by Anonymousreply 96August 16, 2024 7:10 PM

Never realized what a hideous profile LuPone has…

by Anonymousreply 97August 17, 2024 4:48 AM

Roommates sounds a lot like “wicked”

by Anonymousreply 98August 17, 2024 4:58 AM

LEFT profile only, Patti!

by Anonymousreply 99August 17, 2024 4:59 AM

Amanda Farrow was her mother?

by Anonymousreply 100August 17, 2024 5:02 AM

Rosemary's Baby grew up, transitioned, and became Patti.

by Anonymousreply 101August 17, 2024 5:50 AM

Well Patti’s looking good these days, said no one ever.

by Anonymousreply 102August 17, 2024 5:55 AM

“Put away the phone, you ingrate! THIS IS MY SHOW!”

by Anonymousreply 103August 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 Anonymousreply 104August 17, 2024 6:52 AM

What is the plot of The Roommate?

by Anonymousreply 106August 17, 2024 11:22 AM

R89 I never heard of it, either.

by Anonymousreply 107August 17, 2024 1:07 PM

I’m gonna go to the show and bring out my phone.

by Anonymousreply 108August 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 Anonymousreply 109August 17, 2024 1:32 PM

The stars can't pay for their own assistants to help with that?

by Anonymousreply 110August 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 Anonymousreply 111August 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 Anonymousreply 112August 17, 2024 1:43 PM

Lupone has quite the honker on her, doesn’t she?

by Anonymousreply 113August 17, 2024 1:47 PM

R112 No one actually said they had these interns, though. Just speculation,

by Anonymousreply 114August 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 Anonymousreply 115August 17, 2024 1:59 PM

R106 see R68.

by Anonymousreply 116August 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 Anonymousreply 117August 17, 2024 3:47 PM

R117. Patti LuPone and Debra Winger. Oh. Wait.

by Anonymousreply 118August 17, 2024 4:19 PM

That nose could poke an eye out.

by Anonymousreply 119August 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 Anonymousreply 120August 17, 2024 5:44 PM

Jack O'Brien interview from a couple of weeks ago. He talks about "The Roommate" near the start.

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by Anonymousreply 121August 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 Anonymousreply 122August 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 Anonymousreply 123August 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 Anonymousreply 124August 18, 2024 1:22 PM

You're only as old as you feel, r124.

by Anonymousreply 125August 18, 2024 1:30 PM

According to this description of THE ROOMMATE, both characters are 50-something...

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by Anonymousreply 126August 18, 2024 1:44 PM

So, basically the ages of Mia's oldest children.

by Anonymousreply 127August 18, 2024 1:48 PM

Miss Farrow and Miss LuPone are ageless. Spoken like a true press agent.

by Anonymousreply 128August 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 Anonymousreply 129August 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 Anonymousreply 130August 18, 2024 2:44 PM

Does Patti or Mia play the lesbian?

by Anonymousreply 131August 18, 2024 8:20 PM

We'll be sitting front row center opening night!

by Anonymousreply 132August 18, 2024 8:26 PM

I’d pay to have Glenn Close sit in the audience and when Patti enters say, “Oh, Jesus.”

by Anonymousreply 133August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 134August 19, 2024 3:21 PM

[quote]The three-time Tony winner

Just three?

by Anonymousreply 135August 19, 2024 9:34 PM

R134, that’s a DREADFUL performance. No nuance, no understanding of the song. Dreadful. And her PHRASING!

by Anonymousreply 136August 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 Anonymousreply 137August 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 Anonymousreply 138August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 139August 24, 2024 8:01 PM

R139 To me that looks better than Mia with her altered face.

by Anonymousreply 140August 25, 2024 12:30 PM

R139 Patricia Routledge was 61-66 on Keeping Up Appearances.

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by Anonymousreply 141August 25, 2024 1:33 PM

I did not know Mia Farrow had a voice for the stage.

by Anonymousreply 142August 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.)

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by Anonymousreply 143August 25, 2024 3:17 PM

She also did the Virginia Woolf reading with Uta.

by Anonymousreply 144August 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 Anonymousreply 145August 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 Anonymousreply 146August 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 Anonymousreply 147August 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 Anonymousreply 148August 25, 2024 9:15 PM

Maureen also worked on the stage.

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by Anonymousreply 149August 25, 2024 9:47 PM

R149 That's what I was saying.

by Anonymousreply 150August 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 Anonymousreply 151August 26, 2024 11:57 PM

R151. It was revived off Broadway a few years ago and closed quickly.

by Anonymousreply 152August 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 Anonymousreply 153August 27, 2024 12:30 AM

Patti's new recording is totally subpar. I can't believe she let it be released.

by Anonymousreply 154August 27, 2024 4:15 AM

I hadn't seen this Patti interview before.

Stephen Sondheim hurt me!

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by Anonymousreply 155August 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 Anonymousreply 156August 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 Anonymousreply 157August 27, 2024 4:09 PM

No surprise that Mia's bio does not mention Woody.

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by Anonymousreply 158August 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 Anonymousreply 159August 29, 2024 11:41 PM

Evita

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by Anonymousreply 160August 29, 2024 11:50 PM

R160, I'm not sure that answers my question....

by Anonymousreply 161August 30, 2024 12:02 AM

Funny they mention the "classic" The Great Gatsby. She got mostly unfavorable reviews.

by Anonymousreply 162August 30, 2024 12:24 AM

First preview is sold out!

by Anonymousreply 163August 30, 2024 12:28 AM

How was it Marsha?

by Anonymousreply 164August 30, 2024 3:02 AM

First Look At Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow In THE ROOMMATE On Broadway

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by Anonymousreply 165August 30, 2024 3:14 AM

R165. Photo credit: Marsha Mason

by Anonymousreply 166August 30, 2024 3:26 AM

LuPone looks like Vincent Gardenia in a wig.

by Anonymousreply 167August 30, 2024 8:27 AM

The definition of hatchet-faced.

by Anonymousreply 168August 30, 2024 8:28 AM

At least the wig looks like hair and not broomstick straw!

by Anonymousreply 169August 30, 2024 1:15 PM

R165, Patti really looks like a bad drag queen.

by Anonymousreply 170August 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 Anonymousreply 171August 30, 2024 6:51 PM

R171, that's a shockingly apt putdown. I could see them playing those roles.

by Anonymousreply 172August 30, 2024 6:54 PM

R171. Patti is playing a lez so maybe she sticks her finger in Mia's socket.

by Anonymousreply 173August 30, 2024 7:56 PM

The set has a staircase?!

by Anonymousreply 174August 30, 2024 10:22 PM

R174. Staircase???!!! Fuck that

by Anonymousreply 175August 30, 2024 10:48 PM

Odd that only a single photo has been released.

by Anonymousreply 176August 30, 2024 11:05 PM

R176 that was probably the best photo they could release.

by Anonymousreply 177August 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 Anonymousreply 178August 31, 2024 12:03 AM

new interview

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by Anonymousreply 179September 1, 2024 6:52 PM

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 Anonymousreply 180September 1, 2024 6:54 PM

CBS news

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by Anonymousreply 181September 1, 2024 6:57 PM

I would rather talk to Mia than eat lunch!

by Anonymousreply 182September 1, 2024 7:01 PM

And LuPone is playing a dyke in this? Considering her legendary caneface, that works.

by Anonymousreply 183September 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 Anonymousreply 184September 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 Anonymousreply 185September 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 Anonymousreply 186September 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 Anonymousreply 187September 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 Anonymousreply 188September 4, 2024 2:30 PM

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by Anonymousreply 189September 4, 2024 2:45 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 Anonymousreply 190September 4, 2024 2:53 PM

Yikes that New York Times photo didn’t do any of them any favors!

by Anonymousreply 191September 4, 2024 8:27 PM

LuPone said, “Whatever anybody thinks about me is untrue. Period."

by Anonymousreply 192September 4, 2024 8:48 PM

Mia looks like the love child of Sissy Spacek and Amy Carter.

by Anonymousreply 193September 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 Anonymousreply 194September 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 Anonymousreply 195September 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 Anonymousreply 196September 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 Anonymousreply 197September 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 Anonymousreply 198September 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 Anonymousreply 199September 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 Anonymousreply 200September 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 Anonymousreply 201September 5, 2024 5:46 AM

Edward almost approved the casting, but then Gary Morton talked him out of it!

by Anonymousreply 202September 5, 2024 12:01 PM

Boy that’s a nasty profile of Patti.

by Anonymousreply 203September 5, 2024 12:06 PM

Too "on the nose" indeed!

by Anonymousreply 204September 5, 2024 1:55 PM

Patti’s got quite the schnoz! Yikes.

by Anonymousreply 205September 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 Anonymousreply 206September 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 Anonymousreply 207September 5, 2024 3:28 PM

R206 - Terri Klausner

by Anonymousreply 208September 5, 2024 3:41 PM

Please remember that DL icon Sharon Scruggs was Terri Klausner‘s understudy for GOBLIN MARKET.

That is all.

by Anonymousreply 209September 5, 2024 9:38 PM

Terri & Mary Flynn

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by Anonymousreply 210September 5, 2024 9:43 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 Anonymousreply 211September 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 Anonymousreply 212September 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 Anonymousreply 213September 6, 2024 5:35 AM

You witnessed a legend become unglued … and regret it??

by Anonymousreply 214September 6, 2024 5:48 AM

Patti’s nose a show stopper.

by Anonymousreply 215September 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 Anonymousreply 216September 6, 2024 7:46 AM

Patti is her own worst enemy.

by Anonymousreply 217September 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 Anonymousreply 218September 6, 2024 12:38 PM

R218

by Anonymousreply 219September 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 Anonymousreply 220September 6, 2024 8:42 PM

Patti’s nose is more spacious than my EV’s frunk!

by Anonymousreply 221September 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 Anonymousreply 222September 6, 2024 9:22 PM

Mia doesn’t want to have to say the word “Fag.” Ronan forbids it.

by Anonymousreply 223September 6, 2024 9:31 PM

Patti, on the other hand...

by Anonymousreply 224September 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 Anonymousreply 225September 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 Anonymousreply 226September 7, 2024 5:57 AM

I feel like Patti is starting to look like the Punch logo.

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by Anonymousreply 227September 7, 2024 6:04 AM

R226 “I’ve got to have a hand in this!”

- we wish you wouldn’t.

by Anonymousreply 228September 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 Anonymousreply 229September 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 Anonymousreply 230September 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 Anonymousreply 231September 7, 2024 2:22 PM

Patti wins by a nose!

by Anonymousreply 232September 7, 2024 2:49 PM

R231 Milland also didn't wear his toupee in Love Story.

by Anonymousreply 233September 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 Anonymousreply 234September 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 Anonymousreply 235September 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 Anonymousreply 236September 8, 2024 1:37 AM

What about when they start to campaign for awards opposite each other??!

by Anonymousreply 237September 8, 2024 5:46 AM

Jack O'Brien says

The play had been done several places, but not seriously,

FU - S. Epatha Merkerson

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by Anonymousreply 238September 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 Anonymousreply 239September 8, 2024 6:23 AM

R229 Or maybe even some age-appropriate ones.

by Anonymousreply 240September 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 Anonymousreply 241September 8, 2024 1:13 PM

Are they going to open SNL50?

by Anonymousreply 242September 8, 2024 1:30 PM

Mia doesn't seem like the type to care about awards. Patti, on the other hand........

by Anonymousreply 243September 8, 2024 2:08 PM

Nobody cares about this outside NYC

by Anonymousreply 244September 8, 2024 3:21 PM

[quote]Nobody cares about this outside NYC

I'm outside NYC

I care

I'm somebody

by Anonymousreply 245September 8, 2024 3:26 PM

No, you aren't.

by Anonymousreply 246September 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 Anonymousreply 247September 9, 2024 7:22 PM

Playwright Jen Silverman Talks all thing The Roommate on Broadway

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by Anonymousreply 248September 12, 2024 4:19 AM

Patti and Mia are so gracious and generous!

by Anonymousreply 249September 12, 2024 4:24 AM

I wonder if they carpool in together from Connecticut.

by Anonymousreply 250September 12, 2024 5:19 AM

They fly parallel brooms.

by Anonymousreply 251September 12, 2024 6:27 AM

Somehow Patti is doing this show and her one woman show in Chicago simultaneously on October 4.

by Anonymousreply 252September 12, 2024 6:31 AM

She has too much talent for just one stage.

by Anonymousreply 253September 12, 2024 1:12 PM

New photos!

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by Anonymousreply 254September 12, 2024 10:00 PM

Looks like there is the genre de rigueur weed smoking scene.

by Anonymousreply 255September 12, 2024 10:02 PM

A friend saw it and loved it.

by Anonymousreply 256September 12, 2024 10:23 PM

Don’t miss my cameo!

by Anonymousreply 257September 12, 2024 10:36 PM

NYTimes review

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by Anonymousreply 258September 13, 2024 1:53 AM

Variety

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by Anonymousreply 259September 13, 2024 2:04 AM

Ronan at the premiere. Pic on the DailyMail though so can't link.

by Anonymousreply 260September 13, 2024 6:36 AM

Why do all the old ladies who have work done on their faces have those enormous lips?

by Anonymousreply 261September 13, 2024 3:07 PM

It’s getting good reviews. Mia seems to fare the best out of the two. Possible Tony nod?

by Anonymousreply 262September 13, 2024 5:11 PM

Has Patti always looked like that?

by Anonymousreply 263September 13, 2024 5:20 PM

R263. Yes but Mia hasn't always looked like that.

by Anonymousreply 264September 13, 2024 5:31 PM

They need to see your lips from the back of the house.

It’s required.

by Anonymousreply 265September 13, 2024 6:45 PM

I thought there would be a bigger celebrity turnout for the opening.

by Anonymousreply 266September 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 Anonymousreply 267September 13, 2024 9:13 PM

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by Anonymousreply 268September 13, 2024 11:27 PM

Vulture

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by Anonymousreply 269September 14, 2024 12:11 AM

I've reached my monthly article limit for Vulture.

by Anonymousreply 270September 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 Anonymousreply 271September 14, 2024 7:18 AM

Deadline

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by Anonymousreply 272September 14, 2024 7:49 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 Anonymousreply 273September 14, 2024 11:49 AM

Patti looks so uncomfortable on the stairs like that.

by Anonymousreply 274September 14, 2024 1:59 PM

Mia has COVID

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by Anonymousreply 275September 14, 2024 9:45 PM

Review roundup

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by Anonymousreply 276September 14, 2024 9:50 PM

Do they mean Mia's replacement is Carol Halstead?

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by Anonymousreply 277September 14, 2024 9:56 PM

What will Patti do if everyone demands refunds because Mia isn't there? I certainly would.

by Anonymousreply 278September 14, 2024 10:18 PM

Soon-Yi is ready to step in. Again.

by Anonymousreply 279September 14, 2024 10:20 PM

Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow Take Opening Night Bows

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by Anonymousreply 280September 15, 2024 3:02 AM

Say, is Patti eating a banana on OP's photo?

by Anonymousreply 281September 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 Anonymousreply 282September 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 Anonymousreply 283September 15, 2024 12:46 PM

Oh Joshua Johnston in the opening pics is Patti's son.

by Anonymousreply 284September 15, 2024 1:27 PM

Naturally a diva has a son that is actually attractive and of course he’s straight!

by Anonymousreply 285September 15, 2024 1:59 PM

Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow Backstage

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by Anonymousreply 286September 15, 2024 3:30 PM

So Marsha will be on for Mia today SCRIPT IN HAND. Fuck that. I would still get a refund.

by Anonymousreply 287September 15, 2024 6:39 PM

R287, link?

by Anonymousreply 288September 15, 2024 7:27 PM

Marsha Mason subbing for Patti (not Mia) might actually get me to the theater.

by Anonymousreply 289September 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 Anonymousreply 290September 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 Anonymousreply 291September 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 Anonymousreply 292September 15, 2024 11:54 PM

pic of Marsha and Patti.

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by Anonymousreply 293September 16, 2024 6:41 AM

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 Anonymousreply 294September 16, 2024 7:20 AM

Terri Klausner was available, but…

by Anonymousreply 295September 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 Anonymousreply 296September 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 Anonymousreply 297September 16, 2024 11:22 AM

The understudy was paid, r297. End of story.

by Anonymousreply 298September 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 Anonymousreply 299September 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 Anonymousreply 300September 16, 2024 7:42 PM

Patti looks like the child stealer on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

by Anonymousreply 301September 16, 2024 8:08 PM

Jack O'Brien interview of 5 days ago.

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by Anonymousreply 302September 16, 2024 10:33 PM

Wonder who will be on tomorrow night. Mia? Marsha? Carol? Jack?

by Anonymousreply 303September 17, 2024 2:14 AM

WE WANT S. EPATHA! WE WANT S. EPATHA!

by Anonymousreply 304September 17, 2024 4:06 AM

What’s Sara Porkalob up to? If she just has to hold a script she can give 50%.

by Anonymousreply 305September 17, 2024 5:33 AM

Marsha will be on tonite.

by Anonymousreply 306September 17, 2024 2:32 PM

Marsha orchestrated this whole gdamn thing, for her own benefit and adulation.

by Anonymousreply 307September 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 Anonymousreply 308September 17, 2024 3:19 PM

Why do you feel bad for her? She is still being paid.

by Anonymousreply 309September 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 Anonymousreply 310September 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 Anonymousreply 311September 17, 2024 4:34 PM

Marsha is a legend. How many Oscar nominations do you have, R311?

by Anonymousreply 312September 17, 2024 4:38 PM

Opening night stars footage just released.

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by Anonymousreply 313September 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 Anonymousreply 314September 17, 2024 4:42 PM

Choo-choo 😢🚂

by Anonymousreply 315September 17, 2024 4:43 PM

Marsha takes a bow

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by Anonymousreply 316September 17, 2024 4:51 PM

Marsha should have won for Only When I Laugh.

by Anonymousreply 317September 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 Anonymousreply 318September 17, 2024 4:59 PM

Marsha is now plotting to get rid of Patti and bring in Kristy McNichol.

by Anonymousreply 319September 17, 2024 5:14 PM

Harvey interview posted in last 24 hours and mentions The Roommate.

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by Anonymousreply 320September 17, 2024 10:20 PM

I even liked working with Bette Midler!

by Anonymousreply 321September 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 Anonymousreply 322September 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 Anonymousreply 323September 18, 2024 1:28 AM

So, wait! Was Jane Karkowski the only "star" who showed up on opening night??

by Anonymousreply 324September 18, 2024 3:08 AM

Goodbye, girl!

by Anonymousreply 325September 18, 2024 3:14 AM

What if Marsha is Tony nominated for her performance, and neither Mia or Patti are??

by Anonymousreply 326September 18, 2024 3:38 AM

R326 I’ll tear up my Equity card!!!

Oh, wait…

by Anonymousreply 327September 18, 2024 6:34 AM

lots of vacant seats for today's matinee.

by Anonymousreply 328September 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 Anonymousreply 329September 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 Anonymousreply 330September 18, 2024 7:08 AM

Mia should not be left alone at this time.

There should be guards posted outside her door.

by Anonymousreply 331September 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 Anonymousreply 332September 18, 2024 8:05 AM

^^ My. GOD!

Marsha is a MONSTER if she’s planning a 1-woman show like that!

by Anonymousreply 333September 18, 2024 12:53 PM

Lots of tickets available for tonight.

by Anonymousreply 334September 18, 2024 10:34 PM

Mia was what the people were coming to see.

Definitely not the fishwife or that horrible Mason person!

by Anonymousreply 335September 18, 2024 11:21 PM

Patti's IMDB pic shows her so young.

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by Anonymousreply 336September 18, 2024 11:30 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 Anonymousreply 337September 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 Anonymousreply 338September 19, 2024 2:06 AM

R336 That’s her “I hate Bill Smitrovich” smile.

by Anonymousreply 339September 19, 2024 3:44 AM

The New Yorker

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by Anonymousreply 340September 19, 2024 10:33 PM

Not good when a whole row of the mezzanine is available.

by Anonymousreply 341September 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 Anonymousreply 342September 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 Anonymousreply 343September 20, 2024 8:40 PM

Jill is dead.

by Anonymousreply 344September 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 Anonymousreply 345September 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 Anonymousreply 346September 20, 2024 11:55 PM

Jill died, but Erica lives.

by Anonymousreply 347September 21, 2024 12:12 AM

Mia is back on stage.

by Anonymousreply 348September 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 Anonymousreply 349September 21, 2024 1:00 AM

Mia comes back

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by Anonymousreply 350September 21, 2024 1:03 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 Anonymousreply 351September 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 Anonymousreply 352September 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 Anonymousreply 353September 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 Anonymousreply 354September 21, 2024 8:04 AM

More red carpet pics.

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by Anonymousreply 355September 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 Anonymousreply 356September 21, 2024 3:44 PM

[quote] Mia is a psycho

MIA IS BITCH

by Anonymousreply 357September 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 Anonymousreply 358September 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 Anonymousreply 359September 21, 2024 4:40 PM

It's Broadway, not Hollywood. You don't have to beautiful to be on Broadway.

by Anonymousreply 360September 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 Anonymousreply 361September 22, 2024 3:09 AM

interviews. Jen Silverman is like a 12 year old boy.

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by Anonymousreply 362September 22, 2024 5:34 AM

Is her middle name Annie?

Annie Rexic?

by Anonymousreply 363September 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 Anonymousreply 364September 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 Anonymousreply 365September 22, 2024 5:31 PM

I had never heard of Bridget Everett until now. But fat girls shouldn't wear strapless dresses.

by Anonymousreply 366September 22, 2024 5:53 PM

Mia looks the same on stage and off.

by Anonymousreply 367September 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 Anonymousreply 368September 23, 2024 3:36 AM

They/Them I assume.

Not sure about Jen Silverman. But Murray Hill definitely.

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by Anonymousreply 369September 23, 2024 5:14 AM

Two iconic celebrities muddle through a contemporary Broadway play that has very little to say about anything.

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by Anonymousreply 370September 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 Anonymousreply 371September 24, 2024 4:50 PM

In modern days a glimpse of leather

is looked upon as kink forever

in Broadway shows, character clothes

by Anonymousreply 372September 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 Anonymousreply 373September 25, 2024 1:00 AM

Jesus Christ those red carpet photos were horrific!

Everyone looks bloated and bad!

by Anonymousreply 374September 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 Anonymousreply 375September 25, 2024 10:26 AM

I have tickets the last week of October, I hope it holds on to at least that time!

by Anonymousreply 376September 25, 2024 1:25 PM

Curtain call for Mia's return. I hope Patti didn't spot the crumb filming.

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by Anonymousreply 377September 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 Anonymousreply 378September 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 Anonymousreply 379September 27, 2024 7:04 PM

r377, is that really the curtain call for Mia's return or is it actually opening night?

by Anonymousreply 380September 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 Anonymousreply 381September 27, 2024 10:31 PM

This guy's review

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by Anonymousreply 382September 27, 2024 10:44 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 Anonymousreply 383September 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 Anonymousreply 384September 28, 2024 12:52 AM

Today's matinee cancelled (9/28). Apparently, Patti is ill.

by Anonymousreply 385September 28, 2024 6:58 PM

R385, and the audience was seated when it was announced

by Anonymousreply 386September 28, 2024 7:38 PM

R385 Jesus that is frustrating. Surely she would have tested prior to the audience being seated

by Anonymousreply 387September 28, 2024 7:53 PM

Is it now Marsha and Mia as the odd couple?

by Anonymousreply 388September 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 Anonymousreply 389September 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 Anonymousreply 390September 29, 2024 12:48 AM

Did they both go on for the 9/28 evening show?

by Anonymousreply 391September 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 Anonymousreply 392September 29, 2024 1:03 AM

Marsha locked Patti in her dressing room and wouldn't give the key.

by Anonymousreply 393September 29, 2024 1:06 AM

Evening performance also cancelled.

by Anonymousreply 394September 29, 2024 1:14 AM

Girls, GIRLS!! You’re BOTH walking vectors of disease!

by Anonymousreply 395September 29, 2024 2:55 AM

They should change that cheap set to a hospital room for the rest of the run.

by Anonymousreply 396September 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 Anonymousreply 397September 29, 2024 6:45 AM

Oh r384 you Americans never let anything, even watching a play, get in the way of you eating.

by Anonymousreply 398September 29, 2024 7:41 AM

I’m rooting g for COVID!

by Anonymousreply 399September 29, 2024 7:47 AM

Was today's matinee cancelled?

by Anonymousreply 400September 29, 2024 6:27 PM

Next performance advertised is Tuesday evening,

by Anonymousreply 401September 29, 2024 6:32 PM

9/29 matinee cancelled as well. They only have one understudy for both parts.

by Anonymousreply 402September 29, 2024 6:49 PM

But they have Marsha!

by Anonymousreply 403September 29, 2024 10:44 PM

‘The Roommate’ cancels performances

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by Anonymousreply 404October 1, 2024 1:39 AM

Thursday has a matinee but no evening show. And OMG the theatre is nearly all available for tickets. This is not looking good.

by Anonymousreply 405October 2, 2024 11:39 PM

No limo, no fur, no flavah.

by Anonymousreply 406October 2, 2024 11:58 PM

No performance Friday for Patti to go to Chicago. Saturday matinee and evening selling well.

by Anonymousreply 407October 4, 2024 1:00 AM

Sunday matinee selling well though one whole row is available in the mezzanine.

by Anonymousreply 408October 6, 2024 2:45 AM

Tuesday night nearly sold out.

by Anonymousreply 409October 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 Anonymousreply 410October 9, 2024 12:16 AM

Sunday matinee nearly sold out.

by Anonymousreply 411October 13, 2024 3:55 AM

I love the whole Marsha Mason element of this new theatrical experience.

by Anonymousreply 412October 13, 2024 1:50 PM

Lots of seats for Tuesday evening.

by Anonymousreply 413October 14, 2024 12:59 AM

^^ Why? Is Marsha going on?

by Anonymousreply 414October 14, 2024 5:26 AM
Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow, both set to return to Broadway in The Roommate, recently appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers (2024)

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