Patti LuPone, famously fired by Andrew Lloyd Webber from her position as Norma Desmond within the 1993 London manufacturing of Sundown Boulevard, is placing outdated grudges apart – kinda, sorta – and plans to see the brand new Jamie Lloyd-directed Broadway manufacturing subsequent Wednesday.
In a deliciously on-point LuPone look on ABC’s The View at present, the previous Evita was in peak candid kind in delivering a side-eye “praise” in regards to the sizzling new Broadway Sundown revival starring Nicole Scherzinger as Norma.
First, slightly background. In 1993, LuPone created the position of Norma Desmond within the unique London manufacturing of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sundown Boulevard, directed by Trevor Nunn. The venture was a re-teaming of LuPone and Lloyd Webber following their large success with Evita, however historical past didn’t repeat itself: LuPone was abruptly fired by the composer, who subsequently employed Glenn Near open the present in Los Angeles and ultimately on Broadway.
LuPone had been contracted to open each the L.A. and Broadway productions, and the cash she obtained from the settlement went to a great trigger: She has ever since referred to the swimming pool at her Connecticut property as the “Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool.”
On The View at present, with LuPone selling each Disney+’s Agatha All Alongside and her Broadway two-hander with Mia Farrow The Roommate, the Broadway icon was requested whether or not she had seen the brand new largely reimagined – and very nicely reviewed – Broadway manufacturing of Sundown Blvd.
“I can’t wait to see it!” she belted, including that she’s scheduled to see the present subsequent Wednesday.
“I’m very curious to see what Jamie Lloyd has performed with this,” she stated, then added that she needs gifted administrators like Lloyd would deal with “unique materials, assist new playwrights and new composers and lyricists as a substitute of issues that we’ve seen.”
“However I’m curious to see it,” she stated, including, “It’s a lumbering musical” – right here she intoned the phrase lumbering prefer it carried an Agatha All Alongside curse. “It all the time has been, so I’m curious to see what he’s going to do to make it much less lumbering.”
With that, she burst into her trademark snort, solely to cease when cohost Pleasure Behar talked about the brand new manufacturing’s good opinions.
“Effectively, we’ll see,” LuPone stated. “There’s no accounting for style.”
