PATTI LUPONE: Everything's As If We Never Said Goodbye, Incredible!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2017
- From the first full performance of Sunset Boulevard
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Don Black, Christopher Hampton
Musical Director David Caddick, Directed by Andrew MacBean
SYDMONTON FESTIVAL, Summer 1992 - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
There's a fragile quality in this performance that we don't often get to see from Patti and it's an absolute masterpiece.
Agree with you Jim.
Bc she was getting Fired !! BY ALW..When it happened she wre credit her dressing room..
She's gotten bitchy with age..
GREAT IN EVITA ))
Patti is an actress who can hit every note and out sing, Glenn is an actress that can sell a song without singing perfectly. Both are equally connected to Norma in two completely different methodologies.
Patti does a good job vocally, Glen sells it to you, and her voice I think is good enough.
Betty Buckleys version gives me goosebumps however.
@@ryan010able I got to see Betty Bucky in Sunset Boulevard in London back I the early 90’s. It was fabulous.
I wish I could have seen Patti perform the role, I had no desire to see Glenn Close. I was lucky enough to see it with Elaine Paige and the travelling revial production with Petula Clark. Both were great in it,, even though Petula was 70
@@JP-zx7pn petula was horrendous. Her American accent was laughable, she lacked any subtlety, however her final speech was noteworthy. Aside from that you would have been better off catching one of her understudies. Susan Emmerson outshined her in every aspect during the tour
Well put.
"Each Norma brought something different to the role" Exactly. Patti's is vulnerable and wanting, Glenn's is confident and needy.
Glenn's version is so pushed. Patti was born to play Norma.
@@KillDevon EXACTLY! What people do not seem to understand...Norma Desmond was a character that is only supposed to be around 50 years of age. The near death characterization of Glenn Close.
Oh who cares? Obsessing over this like it's high art or something.
It’s art that broadens our collective culture. The conversation here is no different then people debating the merits of sports teams. The Super Bowl for example...People seem to get excited about it as if it actually matters… When it really doesn’t
⭐️PETULA CLARK was a comic Norma ⭐️ BETTY BUCKLEY was crazy ⭐️ STEFANIE POWERS was shy ⭐️FLoRENCE LACEY was elegant ⭐️ ALICE RIPLEY was very tender ⭐️ELAINE PAIGE was the Best Norma I saw one other Norma in Glasgow her name was Faith ❓she was ok scaled down set
There's a real gentleness and vulnerability here that I haven't seen Patti exude before. I would like to have seen her perform this role, like this.
Also, love the moment with Cecil. B at the end.
This was from the workshop. The show hadn't been "decided" upon yet, nor the director. It was between Hal Prince and Trevor Nunn.. I directed this version, then continued as Trevor's associate.
Hello Andrew! Amazing job! Patti Lupone was a great choice!
Impossible to find the the finale of your version here on TH-cam....
Do you have a video of Glenn Close.
@@jaws-ofoz3627Somewhere, on a hard drive, a rehearsal with her in LA.. not sure where!
@@MrTheatreworks Love to see it
After seeing the 2nd US Tour and the Revival My joke is "Sunset Blvd is still big its the productions that got small"...
Such a professional.... Her voice is haunting as she delivers word after word of this classic song...
I cannot thank you enough for posting this rare footage of Ms. Lupone, She was and is the finest Norma Desmond EVER. The fragility of her craft and power of her voice in this Sydmonton concert. I was fortunate to see her 3 times at the Adelphi, and her presence was utterly spellbinding from the moment she appeared on the stairs the last push down stage in that terrible whispy grey wig. THE VOICE THE ACTRESS THE WOMAN Patti Lupone.
Thanks Philp!
fragile?
i can't see it,... but still...
AMEN! 👏
chills when the spot hits her and the music hits the crescendo and Patti...well, and Patti..
We saw her do this in London with Princess Di and other celebrities in the audience. Patti Lupone was magnificent-what a beautiful performance in every way.
Patti Lupone!! Her real first, middle and last names are:Talented, more Talented and Most Talented. Always terrific.
Mrs. Lupone, is a real Diva, Talented, Beautiful and Blessed.
Forgive me, but this is the finest performance I have ever seen her do. The vocal control, the vulnerability, the pathos, it's all there in this one magnificent performance.
If I could sing like her just one day, that would be a taste of Heaven to me! 💞
I saw the remarkable miss lupone in her last performance in sunset!! It was a masterclass in acting an vocals!! I understand that people have their favourites and dislikes. I've seen sunet 5 times with different actresses and I confess none of them have come close to miss lupone. None have been so electrifying, so heartbreaking. Yes there are others who have been good and some not so good. But this is about celebrating the stage sensation that is Patti Lupone xxxx all my love to my fellow sunset lovers xxx
she rushes the hell out of this song, I dont get any emotion from.it whatsoever. You can't deny she has a good vocal range but im underwhelmed.
Glenn's version gives so much more
@@ryan010able I agree with you, but this was the first workshop. I always remembering listening to the original cast recording and thinking the same.
However! After seeing miss lupone she was incredible! And this was in 1994, we had no social media or any knowledge of what was going on x
Ryan, I like your opinions, respectful and open to discussion. Give me a shout to discuss theatre further x
@@ryan010able Rushes the hell out of it? When?
@@jaygatz4335 it sounds rushed. she doesn't take her time at all
Incredible, indeed..a fantastic voice with acting that is true ...she's amazing!!
I love Patti Lupone she is truly incredible!
This is a brilliant performance of the song.
She is showing such a beautiful vulnerability I haven't seen from Patti before. Great great GREAT performance.
The first time I saw Lupone perform live I was 9 years old and the show was Evita. I have never been the same since. Lol. I remember at the beginning of the second act when she exists onto the balcony, the audience didn’t dare to breathe. From that evening forward it was hardcore love for the Broadway Musical and my appreciation and admiration for this incomparable artist. I have seen her perform many other times since then. As late as Company in Spring of 2022. She still steals every show. Till now nothing else exists when she is on stage. I wish her another 50 great years. I hope she’s doing it till she’s 100.
Not gonna touch the Patti v Glenn debate but all I can say is I’m glad they eventually shifted (much of) the score down a few steps. Regardless of who’s singing Norma, I personally think something gets lost in the higher notes- it becomes more about musicality and less about the performance. But that’s just me.
A mesmerizing performance!
LOVE Patti Lupone in Sunset Boulevard. The cast recording with her is my ultimate favorite theatre album. I Like Glenn Close too....but Andrew Lloyd Weber really dissed Patti after she played Norma Desmond in London. She deserved every penny of that million dollar settlement!!
There's nothing better than hearing a full orchestra with strings and horns inside a theatre that's over a hundred and fifty years old like the ones in Philadelphia.
i agree!
Patti didn't play the end of the musical from the beginning. She let the madness unfold throughout.
Rick VanNoy
Interesting. Yes Glenn already looks crazy by this point. Not that I don’t like them both.
Just like Swanson in the original. Eccentric throughout but not crazy until the end. I share your criticism of Close's interpretation.
Excellent point.
Of course, sometimes the madness IS there from the start.
My voice teacher once said this about a Schubert song cycle: the protagonist commits suicide at the end, but he's not right from the outset.
But, the madness had already set in by now. Thinking a washed up actress with a terrible script was really being welcomed backed in, that's the madness
Glenn Close IS Norma Desmond for me, but Patti is and will always be the OG. I *love* the fragility she brings to this number.
This is a very early 'workshop' version, a long time before the West End production had been rehearsed and staged at the Adelphi.
Agree....Good but Glenn is and will be forever MY #1 Norma Desmond!!
Patti originated the role until Weber screwed her over. Weber's loss, sondheim's gain. I never saw Glenn Close in it but heard she was really good. Elaine Paige was great. I saw the touring revival in 2000 with Petula Clark who was really good also, she was just too old to be playing the role of a fifty year old
Excellent and genuine performance!
Patti you are AWESOME!
My favourite of all songs Lloyd Webber has written.
Glenn is amazing, but there’s something about this performance that gives me chills.
Um, humanity?
Glenn's an actress, not a singer. Same for the late Carol Channing, but somehow it worked for her
I saw her last performance in London. She was wonderful
Great set of pipes!!!
As if we never said goodbye
Sunset Boulevard
I don't know why I'm frightened
I know my way around here
The cardboard trees, the painted seas, the sound here
Yes, a world to rediscover
But I'm not in any hurry
And I need a moment
The whispered conversations
In overcrowded hallways
The atmosphere is thrilling here as always
Feel the early morning madness
Feel the magic in the making
Why, everything's as if we never said goodbye
I've spent so many mornings just trying to resist you
I'm trembling now, you can't know how I've missed you
Missed the fairytale adventure
In this ever-spinning playground
We were young together
I'm coming out of makeup
The light's already burning
Not long until the cameras will start turning
And the early morning madness
And the magic in the making
Yes, everything's as if we never said goodbye
I don't want to be alone
That's all in the past
This world's waited long enough
I've come home at last!
And this time will be bigger
And brighter than we knew it
So watch me fly, we all know I can do it
Could I stop my hands from shaking?
Has there ever been a moment
With so much to live for?
The whispered conversations
In overcrowded hallways
So much to say, not just today but always
We'll have early morning madness
We'll have magic in the making
Yes, everything's as if, we never said goodbye
Yes, everything's as if, we never said goodbye
We taught the world new ways to dream
Magic. Thank you, bless you for posting this.
This is incredible. Thank you for posting.
Fantastic! I was lucky enough to see both Patti Lupone and Elaine Page at the Adelphi in the West End. Both were phenomenal.
I ❤️ LOVE Patti Lupone! Saw her years ago on Broadway. FANTASTIC!
Stunning! My favourite Norma.
absolute genius
I adore her!
1 icon I will cherish my life Thank You Very Much Patti for gracing our theater lives and giving us dreams of imitating your singing in many home- mirrors!
My very first musical was Sunset Boulevard with Patti Lupone at the Adelphi in (I think 1993). And began my love for musical theatre. Sunset Boulevard is IMHO Andrew Lloyd Webber's best musical.
this is so beautiful she is amazing and the original love her so much
I saw her in London. I remember the fantastic sets.
My favorite rendition is BARBRA'S in 1993 because..she Lived it. The Legendary STREISAND was still Great, BUT vocally a little past her prime & she was returning to Live performing. Her nerves! Her artistic arc in the song was REAL..and that's Why Andrew Loyd Webber gave it to her to record. PATTI muscled the song with that vibrato battering ram AND Glen Close "acted" it.
Agree❤❤❤
Just marvelous!
This lady is magic
Wonderful!!
Such a lovely interpretation -- vocally and orchestrally. Thanks so much,
Wonderful!
I’m a Patti Superfan, but Betty Buckley chews up this song and spits it out. She’s also a more believable Norma - but I do love everything Patti does.
This brings tears into my eyes
The best! No one can compare to Patti Lupone with this performance, chills is right. If a performance gives you chills it’s the best! Love this!
Love the song. Love Patti
This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing! I would love to see this entire production.
You can
@@helenaraven5784 Cool. Where?
@@jamessedgwick2809 it's on Tumblr
@@helenaraven5784 Do you have a link?
Bravo!
Patti is everything. Glenn killed it too. amazing women.
Magnificent!!!!!!!!!!!
This early setting, even though it's a prototype, is magical. Probably the closest we'll ever get to a 1:1 to the original film. The moment the spotlight hit, and all the eyes turned to Patti, I had chills, you could almost feel the magic as if Gloria Swanson herself had stepped straight out of 1950.
I'll reserve all my opinions on the other productions and performers, this was just absolutely lovely on its own merits.
MAGNIFICA
I saw Sunset twice in a concert type setting then a full production in community theatre. Such a stunning show. Each Norma has her own stamp on the songs. Patti is just incredible. Judi Conelli and Michelle Lansdown were marvellous Normas.
I want to say to all comes down to who you saw first. I had the pleasure of seeing Patti in London three days before her final performance and she was amazing. Not only did she sing With One Look in a higher key than Ms. Close but her final scene was unbelievable! The audience went wild! After this I could never listen to Glen Close sing this role, she’s just not that good a singer. I did manage to see Betty Buckley and Elaine Paige as well. Listen to how Patti sings through those long notes and never cuts them short. Brava Diva!
Probably not fair to compare Glenn to Patti, Betty or Elaine. They ARE established musical theater superstars
Petula Clark was also exceptionally good in the London production.
@@williamgardiner2010 I'm sorry I missed that. I bet it was wonderful.
Fabulosa!!!!
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!
Love her- second to none.
Brilliant singing and acting
I saw her in the original West End production at the Adelphi, both on Press Night and many months later into the run when she had months to dig deeper into the part. Ms LuPone played it quite differently to Glenn Close. Where as Close was a desperately sad Norma Desmond, hurt and unhappy, Patti LuPone's was closer to Gloria Swanson's portrayal - desperate and quite bonkers. Certainly someone with mental health issues. So she was less 'sympathetic' than Ms Close but truly unforgettable . Her effective dismal after completing a year's run in London - she was replaced by Glenn Close on Broadway after the American backers were over the moon over the reviews for Closes's performance in Los Angeles and wanted Glenn Close - took a very long time to get over. It hurt her for many years.
My queen
Bravo.
Patti was so young here she's looked the same for 30 years
She basically still looks the same now lol
It's nothing short of miraculous how she manages to sound frail and vulnerable with a nearly allmighty voice.
I would love to hear her perform this now when she seems more relaxed.
Patti brings something to this role for me that other Normas don’t... you can really feel the character’s love for the art, how it defines her, and it makes it so much more palpable how she’s unable to reconcile herself with being left behind.
I really wish I could see this show
Lupone is one of the greatest interpreters of Lloyd-Webber's music. All I have to say is Evita. I think she would be well cast for Rose in Aspects of Love.
This is done in a small theater on ALW’s estate!!
*we taught the world new ways to dream* 💔
Shes fucking incredible wow
I think every actress has a Norma Desmond stage in their careers
The One and Only.
I saw Glenn Close live in Sunset Blvd, and while I enjoyed it I remembered none of the songs. I bought the CD set (it was the 1990s I think) with Patti Lupone, and started singing all of them. Nothing replaces a good singer, not even fantastic acting, which Lupone also did.
great
Boy, this version and maybe the 1995 clip of her doing "Meadowlark" from a live concert, NOBODY sings a song through, inhabits songs the way Patti at her peak does. The vocalizations are ownership, but beyond the voice it all comes from character, how she feels it and what she feels the character has to tell us. Patti has demurred from doing live musicals going ahead, a loss to all of us, but thank goodness for examples of her art like this!
brillant
THanks for posting. Wish I could have seen her in the production of it. Too bad Weber screwed her over
Weber screwing her off was the biggest gift he could have ever given Sondheim
a masterclass in dynamic vocal pacing
The last work ALW did that was worth bothering going to.
school of rock was pretty cool
Whistle Down the Wind would like to have a talk with you.
Yes, remember that we've suffered.!
The softness at the last verse gave me chills. Glenn close could never
was patti already in her 50s at this point? she looks 30!
in 1992 patti was 43
@@JacobWinglemire32 honestly, she looks about 40 in this
@@MadameCorgi exactly, she looks great in this video. How are people saying shes in her 50s. Also how thicc are her vocal cords.
You have a strange idea of "30"...
@@AirglamGuru Exactly. Not meaning to be shady, but I was surprised to learn she was only 43.
She should have been given LA. I remember all the furore about her being 'replaced' by Glenn Close and, having seen Patti twice in the West End original, she was untouchable. I was devastated for her. Not one of ALWs fairest or better decisions, IMHO. I have nothing against Close but Patti WAS- IS Norma.
Brava Diva!!!
😎😎😎
Saw her in this show Orlando at the Bob Carr. Much more elaborate sets, costumes. I was front row and a friend TN the mezzanine said you could hear the beads drag down the staircase way up there. This was a good show that night!
No, you didn’t. You saw Petula Clark in that awful cut-rate traveling version that looked like a Carol Burnett sketch.
She is still, for me, the only "Norma".
And to think this was basically a full performance AUDITION! (as per her autobiography)
I think it was unfortunate the way she was railroaded out of the British production of Sunset Boulevard. Is this from the actual show? I think her voice is suited to the character on the soundtrack. Thanks for the post.
Glen has soul in her singing.' Patti is just singing...
Silky smooth and vibrant citrus.....................
Yellow diamond is such a queen
Does Patti voice a Steven Universe character? If so, that’s cool!
@@yelanates yes she does and its yellow Diamond
Please post the whole workshop!!!! Such great quality
Maybe a few slices....
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏