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 Purchase, NY - Broadway denizen Patti LuPone returns to the Concert Hall of The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College for The Center’s 32nd season opening weekend at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3.
LuPone will perform her acclaimed “Matters of the Heart” cabaret program that is based upon her award-winning recording of the same name. She performs “Matters of the Heart” internationally, including runs at Australia’s Sydney Festival and London’s Donmar Warehouse Theatre. Her CD recording, based on this concert, was named one of 1999’s best recordings by both The Times of London and Time Out/New York.
Tickets are $52.50 to $82.50. The audience also will have the opportunity to meet LuPone at a post-concert reception. Tickets for the reception are an additional $100 and may be ordered by calling Anthony Busti at (914) 251-6213.
LuPone has long been synonymous with Broadway, having starred in such classics as “Evita,” “Master Class,” and “Pal Joey.”
After completing her training with the first class of the Drama Division of New York’s Juilliard School, she began her career as a founding member of John Houseman's The Acting Company playing a variety of leading roles, both on and off-Broadway and on tour throughout the United States. Her subsequent New York dramatic credits include Dario Fo's Accidental Death of An Anarchist; David Mamet's The Water Engine, Edmond and The Woods and Israel Horovitz' Stage Directions. Miss LuPone's memorable performances on the New York musical stage include Vera Simpson in the Encores! production of Pal Joey, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, (1988 Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination, Best Actress in a Musical), The Cradle Will Rock, Nancy in Oliver!, Evita (1980 Tony and Drama Desk Awards- Best Actress in a Musical), Working and Rosamund in The Robber Bridegroom (1976 Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, Best Featured Actress in a Musical).
LuPone swept the 2008 theater awards winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance for her performance as Rose in the critically-acclaimed new Broadway production of the classic Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents musical “Gypsy”.
“Matters of the Heart” is directed by Chris Fenwick. Musical accompaniement is by the Four Play String Quartet.
For more information and to buy tickets, call The Performing Arts Center ticket office (914-251-6200). For more information, log onto The Center’s Web site: www.artscenter.org.
The Center’s 32nd season is made possible, in part, by the Basic Program Support Grant of Arts Westchester with funds from Westchester County Government. Major sponsorship for the 2009-2010 season is provided by Vivian Milstein through the SVM Foundation. We thank our dear friend Vivian Milstein for her generous gift, which has made possible this concentration of great artists in one season.
Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y., is located 28 miles northeast of New York City at the Connecticut border. The College, part of the State University of New York, is an institution of public higher education encompassing the liberal arts and sciences, professional training in the performing and visual arts, continuing education, The Neuberger Museum of Art and The Performing Arts Center.
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