Stage and screen star Patti LuPone celebrates her birthday April 21.
LuPone made her Broadway debut in The Three Sisters in 1973, beginning an almost five-decade career on the Great White Way. LuPone has originated roles in Sunset Boulevard, Les Misérables, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, as well as productions of Anything Goes, Oliver!, Working, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class, The Cradle Will Rock, Sweeney Todd, and Pal Joey. She earned her first Tony Award for Evita in 1980, and her second for the 2008 revival of Gypsy.
Following an acclaimed run in London, LuPone returned to the Broadway in the gender-switched revival of Company as Joanne, which began performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre March 2, 2021
Patti LuPone (seated), with Mary Joan Negro and Mary Lou Rosato,
in The Three Sisters for The Acting Company (1973)
Patti LuPone and Kevin Kline in The Robber Bridegroom for The Acting Company (1976)
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Patti LuPone and Chaim Topol in The Baker's Wife
Chaim Topol and Patti LuPone in The Baker's Wife
Patti LuPone and Barbara Tarbuck in The Water Engine
Patti LuPone
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Patti LuPone
Mark Syers, Patti LuPone, and Mandy Patinkin
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Henry Stram and Patti LuPone in The Cradle Will Rock
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Patti LuPone and Graeme Campbell in Oliver!
Patti LuPone in Oliver!
Patti LuPone in Oliver! on Broadway (1984)
Patti LuPone in Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Patti LuPone, with Jonathan Pryce, Joe Grifasi, Gerry Bamman, Raymond Serra and Bill Irwin, in Accidental Death of an Anarchist on Broadway (1984)
Martha Swope
Patti LuPone in the original London Les Miserables (1985)
Michael Le Poer Trench
Patti LuPone in Anything Goes on Broadway (1987)
Brigitte Lacombe
Patti LuPone in the London Sunset Boulevard (1993)
Donald Cooper
Patti LuPone in Sunset Boulevard
Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone, with Peter Gallagher, in Pal Joey for City Center Encores! (1995)
Patti LuPone in Patti LuPone on Broadway (1995)
Patti LuPone and cast in Patti LuPone on Broadway
Patti LuPone in Master Class on Broadway (1996)
Patti LuPone in The Old Neighborhood on Broadway (1997)
Patti LuPone and the cast of Noises Off (2001)
Patti LuPone, with Michael Cerveris, in Sweeney Todd on Broadway (2005)
Patti LuPone, with Manoel Felciano, in Sweeney Todd on Broadway (2005)
Patti LuPone, with Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti, in Gypsy on Broadway (2008)
Patti LuPone in Gypsy on Broadway (2008)
Patti LuPone in a publicity shot for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010)
Patti LuPone and the cast of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010)
Patti LuPone and de'Adre Aziza in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Patti LuPone in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Patti LuPone and Sherie Rene Scott in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
Patti LuPone in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
Patti LuPone in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
Patti LuPone in The Anarchist
Patti LuPone in The Anarchist
Dale Soules and Patti LuPone in Shows for Days
Photo by Joan Marcus
Patti LuPone
Joan Marcus
Patti LuPone
Joan Marcus
Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone
Joan Marcus
Patti LuPone
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