Broadway legend Patti LuPone on InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse 

Patti LuPone used to live in my building, a rent-controlled tenement on West 21st St in NYC, before she hit the big time. By the time I moved in in 1981, she was already successful so I never saw her, but the old-timers would brag "hey, that's Patti's apartment." Apparently she sublet it.

I LOVE THIS WOMAN!!!! She is real and tells it like it is.An inspiration.She should be bottled and sent to all wannabees.She sings the definitive versions of so many songs.Long may she go on singing!!

She seems like a funny, "tell it like it is", sort of person

Love the woman. So damn smart and fun, AND gifted.

She is truthful in a world of falseness and lies. She is the genuine article on all fronts. I cherish her and her great talent.

I would never fell asleep watching her

I am actually quite shocked how she bluntly admits she could not sing the part of Eva Peron.WOW. Whenever I hear the American Premiere Recording I hear a literal virtuoso ... a Master of her Craft. The way she breezed though it was amazing and even in grainy footage of her singing it on stage was outstanding. She captured the essence and power of Eva Peron. I know the role is hard to sing... typical Webber, where the singer is required to jump octaves... and many of the notes require the female singer to sing in chest/belt or mixed voice notes in higher registers... But Lupone definitely fooled me on this one. I still proclaim her the definite stage Eva Peron.

How is it possible that I’m just as enthralled and enchanted, listening to this interview, as I would be seeing her on stage. She’s outstanding!! ❤

Fascinating woman. Great interview.

I love her honesty in this interview. Ms LuPone truly is a great performer who knows her craft and has my undying respect and admiration. Thanks for posting this!

Patti is such an amazing person. I want to work on Broadway one day and I am praying that I get to see her. Working with her would be incredible but seeing her and getting a picture would be amazing. She is such a versatile actress. Every role she plays is her own, whether its a new character or one that's existed for decades. Viva Lupone! :)

Her passion and love comes roaring at ya I love her to bits. I saw her in London in Company and she blew the roof off the theatre.. John Sivorn xxx

Basically, it is written in a really uncomfortable part of a womans vocal range. It's written almost entirely in the mix voice where your chest & head registers mix. The score called for the upper mix/almost head voice to be strong & powerful & almost operatic. As she said in the interview, it is a series of D, E, F & a couple of High G's & then it will drop rapidly to low E's. Also, the pace of the score. It's fast then slow & the melodies are constantly changing & it's all over the place.

She will always be our Evita !!

She is great wonderful and fantastic. ❤💞💖❤

The best Eva and a terrific film and tv actress too ! Great voice too.

I can watch and listen to Patti LuPone 24/7/365 and still want more! She is the MOST authentic Broadway Actress in history. I feel sad for those who have never had the privilege of seeing her on stage. She not only connects with the character, but she somehow manages to engage the audience in ways very few ever have, or ever will! A true legend!!!!!

i can watch this over and over again

So charismatic and so REAL. I love her.

I have met her on two occasions. She is really charming and more approachable than you’d imagine

Her voice out does everyone in anything goes.

She is so down-to-earth! Love it! She still talks like someone you would meet in a Jersey supermarket! Cute...

Absolutely loved Patti in both her roles in Penny Dreadful.

haha i love when she talked about taking things

PATTIE can take any Broadway musical roll, turn it around and make it her own. Does she surpass any actor who has played the roll before her? Damn straight! Just look at her Mama Rose in "GYPSY" ... ... nuff said!

I adore this lady; she's got such a lovely personality and is so talented.

love her honesty!

i love this women so much

Love love the quality of this interview. SO much information and insight into the grueling world of the THEA-TAH!!

She's one hell of a woman in every sense of the word. Barbra Streisand always talked about being an actress who sings but Patti Lupone actually walks the talk. What did Streisand do...The Main Event, Meet the Fockers. So much respect for Lupone. So much.

i love this interview, thanks so much for posting xxx

she is iconic and legendary !!!

It's amazing to hear that she struggled with the singing in Evita she sounded so secure on the cast album and when I saw in the role in 1980. (The greatest night of my life in the theater by the way) You would never in a million years suspect she was struggling.

Love Patti LuPone so much. I’m late but thank you for sharing!

Around the time of this interview (2003) there was a miniseries called "The Reagans," which chronicled the presidency of Republican hero Ronald Reagan. The movie was originally slated to air on CBS (network TV), but when conservatives objected to its portrayal of Reagan, CBS decided not to show it and instead it aired on Showtime (paid cable) where less people saw it. The controversy was that Republicans used intimidation tactics to suppress the movie, which some (like Patti) called censorship.

VIVA LUPONE!!

A great interview !

I love her!

She amazing and to hear this story. She is THE ONLY PERSON I can hear sing EVITA !

I get what Patti is saying about Les Mis. Although I have never had an experience being in a show that is so "perfect" I would not want to do another production of it, I have had the experience of watching a production like that. It was the 2013 revival of Pippin. After I saw it I said to myself that I never wanted to see another production of this show. I didn't want that experience to be tampered with.

Yes! Very interesting! Thanks for the clarification!

@fountainchain126 This interview as shot before the 2005 revival. Thanks for watching!

Just excellent!

Happy Birthday Patti you r fabulous!

I saw her do Evita in San Francisco in previews before NYC....great fun!!

Aw Ernie clearly Looooooves musicals

Hats off Patty.Your the tops.Oh heck! I knew this in 79 when my ex used to ask me " what do you see in her "? My answer was Heh this is a GREAT musical. Eva oops PATTI you say you hit the wall in EVITA. No wonder.You captured her totally. If she watched this interview,I know she is laughing her butt off and saying so you wanted to act like me.Well you got it.VIVA EVITA AND VIVA PATTI.Love ya both.

Love this dame!

When I see and hear 17:03 Patti sing “It doesn’t matter what those morons say…”, I get chills. That just nails the part for me. Nobody sang it like Patti.

My dream interview would be Patti Lupone & Elaine Paige sit down and talk about playing EVITA XXX please make it happen xx

I'd love to see an interview with patti lupone and elaine paige discuss Evita xx

That was a great interview, Yellow Diamond.

I would love to see an interview with patti lu pone and elaine paige discussing the role of evita x

That was great. Oh, while I don’t fall asleep in a show, it can be a struggle for some. Remember, some people attending just flew across the globe to see a broadway show and have been up for many hours and fighting jet leg in a new time zone.

That specific story about the mouse made my day!

She was like blue cheese to me. It took a while for me to appreciate what a fine actress she is.

I read an interview where the writer described her mouth as being controlled by an invisible fish hook and that could not be more accurate. Her mouth is mesmerizing.

She is pretty darn awesome. She is very entertaining and interesting. Did she create Evita? I thought Elaine Paige did or don't they count the West End production and meant she created it on Broadway?

how many faucets did she have in her apartment to make that much noise?

She should have been on the Sopranos.

Very strong opinion about a movie you never saw in full😏

“Talk a bablooserie (sp?)”? 27:45 Anyone have any information on this phrase?

Patti is an actress that really embodies the charactors that she plays with a great deal of honesty and intelligence and I love that about her. Her clarity and diction on stage is prefect... However, in this interview I am really having trouble understanding her because she is speaking so.damn. FAST ! SLow down Patti dear, we want to hear what you have to say. Love you just the same.

Such truth in her. Love ❤️ her

Please, could you tell me what they are talking at about 14:20 when Patti says it was ridiculous??? I didn't understand what he was talkig about.

Does anyone have any verified updates on what happened to Kevin Anderson? Did he ever get out of that crazy legal issue?

I recognise the whole tradition of theatre. I did a production of The Boyfriend many years ago. My wig came from London. In letters on the side were. Alec Guiness Star Wars! I've worn a hair piece made for sir Alec Guiness!! In the words of patti lupone " holy shit! "

That's why it's so challenging. I hope this helped.

I never saw her on Broadway but her (Movie -T.V. ) work was O.K. Obviously, her forte' is 'The Great White Way!!!

Alright Yellow D!!!

@hole1991 Oh and also, there was also Hayley Mills (who has done stage work without training) and Christina Applegate.

Yellow Diamond 💛👉⚡️⚡️⚡️ My Diamond 💎💛

Very high belting!!! You need extremely good technique (vocally) to sing a high F belting.

THIS! HER! THIS! I had the same escape on stage at 5 or 6 and was in the tri state area too. I left NY to study in Chicago? Why? Well there were no Jimmy awards or anything like that and my father had cancer and died when I was 10. Events shape lives and bring us opportunities or they don't. I never wanted to be in the box or up on the silver lining drive in screen. My Mom and step Dad, Acting school in Chicago, no one knew what to do with this gay youngest of five kid who could belt in that old school tradition kid with trauma and jokes and a healthy appetite for anything.. The microphones had just become permanent on BROADWAY. They didn't trickle down until the 90s.I was loud. I have a good heart. It is my mouth that is the problem or was it? Anyway, maybe I am a no talent Ox cause I have wasted my life. I should have been sent to Patti's Summer Camp for Broadway Babies who don't know the difference between Jewish and Italian and to whom it is all just NY. I coulda met her in CT and still have enjoyed a meatball wedge or a bacon egg and cheese if needed, and they ARE needed. If you know, you know. I too wonder if Che and Evita live close to each other in Litchfield or perhaps one in Westchester at an appropriate distance, and If rumors are true and this Goddess is living in NYC with Aubrey Plaza, oh hell. I was going to say if I don't get invited over for a Hot and Dirty or a spot of tea I am gonna give someone such a pinch! The elephant who really said that is in my room right now, but even if we don't mention him, my dream won't come true. SO I will say this; hearing about having a one to one and full eye contact with a mouse while climbing to your Rainbow High each night, killed me. I'm dead, but I am glad I lived long enough to see this interview and honesty. I want another twenty eight minutes and fifty eight seconds.

23:37 melhor frase da entrevista kkkk

Interesting to see that a mouse changed her career!

Dear PBS. It's PERON, Perone is an obsolete word for the fibula bone.

Ernie Manouse SOOOOO CUTE

@fountainchain126 Oh, thanks very much!

Does anybody think Patti Lupone and Frankie Valli look like they could be cousins? Compare them when they were of the same age. Dark round eyes with tall eyelids, the upward sideways curl of the mouth, I guess it's just - Italian. Genetically gifted in singing, those Italians!

@MTVMANN Do they? Oh, sorry, I'm not very researched, but I thought the other example are reasonable. Are they? I mean, Daniel Radcliffe got very good press for Equus (I know that much) and I know he did do stage work in "The Play I wrote" when he was 13 and things. I just wonder if actors who haven't necessarily trained can still do theatre and learn different techniques and things as they go along?

She stole Ethel Merman’s jewels! God I love her!

@hole1991 You'll find a lot of people bash Christina Applegates performance in "Sweet Charity"...

No she was NOT to old !! 13:03

Look how great she looks without the heavy make up we often see her plastered in. She’s cool, albeit I can see that she can be a bit of a gorgon. Talking about stamina she seems a bit contradictory. Stage 8 nights a week. But 16 hr days on tv, sounds like she’s not respecting the rev actors that have the stamina for that for years. Her dissing the bridge and tunnel crowd is pretty shocking. Her audience ffs. What she said about Evita and the voice is interesting, I’m not sure I believe her when she says she got no help, they knew she was their moneymaker, why wouldn’t they? However, Americans forget that she didn’t originate the role, and Elaine Paige had delivered those notes perfectly from day one, and sustained it for over a year....she’s spot on about the Reagan bio etc. All that aside, I’ve seen her be brilliant on tv (Pose) and live I’ve seen her be dreadful (Sweeney Todd) and amazing (Gypsy), but she is a real stage star no question.

Patti is so right about the film. I watched it last night. As a fim it's wonderful but Madonna vocals are so boring there are no vocal acrobatics as per the original score. With the original keys and different cast it could have been amazing xx

Eva Perone? Who did write this, Fethry Duck?

my diamond you smart

Patti LuPone is left-handed.

Its Eva Peron

THEY SPELLED PERON WRONG!!!

Do you think her comment on television and film actors coming to stage is relevant, because there have been examples of very successful theatre acting from, for example, Daniel Radcliffe in Equus. Do you guys think it is something a TV/Film can learn as they go along?

He never mentions the TV show life goes on, which had the first special needs kid ever acting on a regular TV show. That was pretty historic and yet it’s almost erased from her résumé

Holy toledo!

She looks like an older version of the woman whose voice was Ariel's in Little Mermaid! :D

at 7:00 I couldn't understand you, Patti....

I've never seen the show Evita (or the film for that matter), could someone explain why the role is so difficult to sing? Not questioning Patti's ability, I just simply don't know what is required of the performer and what makes it so challenging. I read somewhere that she claimed the role was written by a man who hated women, what's the deal with this role?

The film was the ONLY movie from which I've walked out. It was G-d-awful.

I would’ve loved to seen Whitney Houston play it. I think she would have loved that

“… their wives had brought them” Her comment is sexist! I admire her talent but sometimes she reveals her true self.