You are really closed-minded. If Glee brought some people here, it isn't a crime. I think that so many people are so proud to know Broadway without Glee. Personly, I know this song before Glee but I accept and respect the people that discover Patti Lu Pone by Glee !
C'mon, guys. Does it really matter if Glee brings people here? I mean, at least they're here, right? Obviously, the Glee version of this song isn't as good as the Lupone version or the Merman version or the Bernadette Peters version, but it doesn't have to be. Just enjoy the glory that is Ms. Patti Lupone.
@iSingTheChanges Well I didn't so I think it's a wonderful thing that a show like Glee can educate teenage kids who lack musical culture these days and who listen to nothing else but Gaga and Bieber
I am sorry to say.... Every time I hear Ms Lupone sing a song after I hear Bernadette Peter's version, I can't help but feel just a little bit disappointed :\ This entire thing just seems like she is saying "I am performing now."
I don't know what it is! I just NEVER enjoy Patti's performances... and its not for lack of trying... believe me!
@phylosaccount I think it's great that a show like Glee brought such wonderful musical pieces to the mainstream culture,it introduced kids and teenagers of our generation to something other than Bieber and Gaga and I think that's great,they're doing a marvelous job...that's why many thumbs up for Glee :)
@IDontShine423 same here. I had Wicked Gregory Maguire wrote and then I saw the musical for my birthday. Then I heard that Kristen Chenowith and Idina Menzel appeared on Glee and I was hooked!
@tuwbrjj Listen, I know it's a matter of taste, but how the hell can you compare them? T__T I mean, I know Chris Colfer is really talented and he's got a great future in front of him, but hell, this is Patti LuPone. 30 years on Broadway. Chris Colfer is incredibly talented, and a good performer, but he's just a kid at last...he ain't got her experience, her magic...he will have it, I don't deny it, but you can't make a comparison between him and this pillar of the entertainment world!
i watched all the other versions of some people trying to find one that was as good as chris colfer's.....this was the best besides his....but it's still not as good....
so, no idiot motherfulker trashtalkers here, just 2 performers who know what they're talking about, and you just seem like an irascible person who wants to get into something theyre not a part of.
@Mercury0204@Rachster86, I agree with Rachster86, i didn't mean for it to sound so terrible and slang(was a bad day), i actually do apologize, but me being a performer myself I was qualified to at least share my opinion and my witness of what I have heard personally(Rachster may be right about live performances, I sadly haven't seen one) but regardless, YOU Mercury0204 obvi have no idea what your saying. We never said we could sing better, and as a matter of fact, i was DEFENDING the video
@LeShawnasBiggestFan I totally get it. I've had bad days as well. :-) You do have every right saying your opinion and I do honor everyone's opinion. For the record, when I was responding to you, I was just stating that you didn't know all the facts about me to formulate a full opinion which is why I responded in the way that I did. I hope I didn't offend you and that there are no hard feelings on your side. I know there aren't on my end. Hope you have many more good days than bad in the future.
@mercury0204 I am on youtube, I'm not talking trash, and I'm not an idiot. I was just saying my opinion as a performer myself and as an audience member when I was lashed at. Excuse me for defending myself. I wasn't trying to say that I am better then anyone else as a person on here. I'm not. I just said to Leshawnasbiggestfan that they were wrong about me.I do know what I'm talking about and I do have an opinion.If you actually got to know me, then you would know I'm actually a nice person.
@LeShawnasBiggestFan, 5. I'm no one but me. I didn't say my opinion to be mean or to make you think I'm a bitch. I'm not. I was just stating that if you are a professional singer/performer, you shouldn't be going out of tune period. I don't care who it is. I would say this about anyone. 6. You clearly don't know what you are talking about because it's not just when she starts it's the entire note and I've heard her sing live when she has done complete phrases out of tune. Hence my opinion.
@Rachster86@LeShawnasBiggestFan lol both of you idiots post a video of yourselves singing and let's see who's better. Shut the motherfuck up. trash like you people on youtube should dissapear
@LeShawnasBiggestFan, you are so funny starting a fight with me on here. Here is where your logic is flawed. 1. I've been singing/training my entire life with professionals. 2. I'm a professional singer/performer myself. 3. I'm a professional voice teacher and have been teaching for over 9+ years. 4. My specialty in singing myself and in teaching my students is singing with a mix that sounds like a belt. So the fact that you think I don't know what I'm talking about is laughable.
She goes out of tune on all the long big notes in almost every song. It's soo annoying. She's a great actress and performer but come on people! If you go out of tune at all then you don't deserve to be on Broadway in a musical. Just because she has a big voice doesn't mean she is a good singer. Good singers can always control their voices to at least stay in tune. She has proven time and time again that she can't. Sorry but singing out of tune is one of my all times pet peeves.
@Rachster86 Bitch, back the fuck up. Who do you think you are calling out Patti LuPone? You try and do belts like that, ive been singing all my life and I know what I'm talking about. Her crescendo is spot on, her vibrato is impeccable, and her belt is fantastic. You obviously don't know the deeper part of singing, just that you hear she starts a half step below some of her big notes. Take your pet peeve outside, and put a leash on it so it doesn't bite anyone else in the ass
@Rachster86 Yeah actually I agree- I prefer the Glee version of this- and the Glee version of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables- but her voice is kinda ok
This woman sounds totally retarded. I am laughing my ass off listening to this. She is as subtle as a tsunami. All I hear is The Patti LuPone Show starring Gypsy. I do not hear Rose at all. I can actually hear the click, click, click of the wheels turning in her head as she sings this. And for those of you who say you had to see her live...I did. Both at City Center and on Broadway because my dear friend played Tulsa in both productions. She is awful. Period. Bernadette needs to mentor her.
@KellyBevel you sound absolutely stupid, kid. If you don't at least respect LuPone, you clearly have no training or respect for the theatre. How dare you? I love Bernadette too, but she surely doesn't need others to put Patti down just to bring her up. Both are legends of the stage.
I challenge ANY of these to go do the Forrest Theatre in Carmel Ca.
It is a 1500 seater that is OUTSIDE in 57 degrees with fog, which is where I played Annie Oakley, also where Judith Anderson, the best Medea ever played, and an array of huge talents that we will never find again.
I simply critiqued Ms LuPone. I gave her appropriate comments. I didnt 'compare', you did.
whats the matter? Cant take someones critique that is accurate?
@ugha323a Alright alright, I guess that was a cheap shot. I'm a performer as well & I know better. I just didn't like the whole "put a sock in it" like I don't have a right to speak thing. What can I say? I'm a LuPone lover. Meanwhile, the videos of you singing are actually wonderful.
I DO like LuPone, I loved her when I saw her in EVITA as a kid, growing up in NY.
My grandmother got really super sick in the late 80's and I accepted a part at the St James theatre for the role of Vera in MAME, and had to turn it down, because family always came first. Now, I am in my 40's and voice very strong.
I also got accepted at ACT in S.F. for scholarship, but that was at the same time as massive sickness came to my Nana.
The audience at the Encores production at City Center was ridiculous... during "Small World," the audience was practically not even letting her get through a line without laughing. She hardly had to do anything. It was "let's sit down and watch Patti LuPone play Patti LuPone doing Rose." Totally ridiculous. I'd much rather have watched her actually try and play a character instead of a caricature of herself as Rose.
I totally lost respect for her when her comment to the crew telling her to hurry up during her Tony acceptance speech was "Oh, shutup, it's been 29 years!" Ok, I get it Patti, you were in a bunch of shows since Evita. But so were many legends in the generations before her time. And not one of them were so bitter as to act as if they are entitled to the award in some way or other because of the length of time and amount of shows they were nominated for in between awards.
yeah, that's the mark of a bad performance alright. I hate it when an audience laughs at all my laugh lines. I heard they gave her standing ovations every night and kept it up for 20 minutes on closing night. Oh yeah, and all those tears during the lead up to "Everything's coming Up Roses"..... jeez, ouch that hurts. She must have really sucked.
I saw her in Evita, she was a standing ovation, but this one, she thinks she IS "Broadway", This show was written for Merman, NOT LuPone, she has too much of a BIG FAT HEAD now.
Hmmm, interesting. The man who wrote the show had nice things to say about all the women who did the part, but his opinion was the Merman couldn't act and when he wrote about directing Patti Lupone in the show, half his book was a huge valentine to her. She was clearly his favorite actress for that role.
Ps.. his name is Arthur Laurents, buy his book and eat your heart out.
When you have a voice like Merman, who had plays written for her voice, its far more important that being a weak actor. The song is the center of attraction in a Broadway play. The story line is filler.
@TheWWWJTFORG that's not how it is anymore. book comes first, songs come second. but take that knowledge 100 years in the past to ziegfeld and you'll be right!
@TheWWWJTFORG Well that's one (weak) definition of what defines the appeal of a Broadway show. The story is, to a certain extent, filler. But if you can't deliver song's convincingly, if all you can do is belt out songs with the emotional sensitivity of a sledgehammer, well then maybe you should just be singing at a cabaret, instead of being on Broadway.
she needs to be more animated her speaking is kind of boring and when she holds out her notes and her vibrato shows she like changes keys or something and that drives me CRAZY like listen to this 0:34 !!!
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I totally agree... I dont honestly think Ethel Mermans voice was right for this role, and Bernadette was really really bad... which is sad cause shes my favoirte Broadway diva
@Evilqueen1985 Actually, the score (and indeed the entire show) was written specifically *FOR* Ethel Merman!!! As for Bernadette Peters, did you know that Arthur Laurents HIMSELF was a huge fan of Bernadette's performance as Rose? (despite not liking many of Sam Mendes' directorial choices).
I've seen both Patti and Bernadette on Broadway, and Bernadette's Rose was infinitely more sympathetic; she was indomitable AND vulnerable simultaneously.
Exactly, Queen, this IS Mermans show, although everyone now will tell you that Merman was loud and obnoxious, I think she was FABULOUS and I love to imitate her :D
@ugha323a I totally agree. It's Ethel Merman who paved the way for belters in Musical Theatre (that includes Patti LuPone, needless to say!!) Merman provided an alternative to the Soprano Ingenue leads, and proved that "brash" Belters could carry shows as the Female Lead too (no one would have believed it, at the time).
Merman IS the champ and queen of Broadway and will ALWAYS be.
I played Annie Oakley, and the director asked me to copy Merman as much as possible, because that is all anyone remembers.
So, why TRY to follow who did it best?
NOBODY alive can out belt Merman with sounding BIG, Bold and fantastique!
She WAS Broaday, and people that are female/belting thespians now, ought to THANK GOD that she even existed, if it wasnt for her, these foamdomes would NOT exist!
Patti LuPone won a Tony for her performance as Madame Rose. So did Tyne Daly. So did Angela Lansbury. But Bernadette Peters did not win a Tony for her performance. Enough said.
Ud have to find out. its 16 four counts. Just count to 4 16 times. Like 1 and a half minutes thats usually where i cut it. Anywhere between 1-1.5 min is good.
Patti LuPone is Broadway Legend. Sooo....amazing. I absolutely love her as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd in Concert," and her Evita is simply brilliant.
Okay, for starters Bernadette Peters production of Gypsy was NOT a commercial or critical flop! Bernadette's production ran 1 year and I month, Patti's will run a little under a year. If Patti's was more successful, it would not be closing a month sooner than Bern's did. Plus, Bern got rave reviews from USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playbill, the list goes on and on. She got a standing ovation at the Tonys just like Patti did AND her Gypsy cast recording won a Grammy.
It WAS closing March 1 but you know how the economy and what not is not allowing people to see broadway shows as much, so now it's closing January 11. I'm so upset I never got to see it.
i think the cast recording for patti is better and i thought that patti was better when i saw it on broadway... but still its gypsy's 3 time on b-way,and the roses have been: ethel merman bernadette peters and patti lupone! it couldn't get any better than that!
I personally love Patti's rose much better then Bern's. I love Bernadette Peters with all of my heart, but this role was Patti's best I believe. Both are amazing though.
I see Gypsy every Sunday matinee, front row seats and I got to meet her last Sunday. It was great. I have been the professor several shows and I have the pieces of paper she throws and the apples. I think I'm going to put "Professor" in Gypsy in my bios for kicks.
I saw Patti in "GYPSY" this past Wednesday evening, at the St James Theatre on 44th Street... simply BRILLIANT show and performance from Patti AND the entire cast of this marvelous show!!! I thouroughly enjoyed this show; truly a highlight of my trip to Manhattan and New York City. I'll never forget it and remember it fondly :)
hey everyone! guess whos reading for pop on the recording. ill give you a hint. hes really old and he wrote and directed a hell of a musical! i thought it was nice that they snuk him in.
monrocsol, im not saying shes bad at all i was replying to nycagents comment because he said she was boring and dull...ive seen gypsy and it was the best show i ever saw!!
I don't like how she hits that high note on "Rose" at the end of the song. That note should be reserved for when she sings "Rose" at the end of the song's bridge, or what's called "Seattle to Los Angeles" on the new cast recording. That's the way I have directed it, and the way I think it sounds best.
im sorry your all gonna kill me but.. Patti is a better mama rose.. but in Some People .. bernadette actually has a better version.. Pattis version is just too much of a concert verion .. its just tooo much... its too patti not enough Rose... and ive heard other live recordings and its the same...
I agree with you, and I'm someone who thinks Patti is brilliant as Mama Rose and Peters was, well, let's just say a hue flop. In her, Patti, defense though, when you see hr acting live with this song it is much more compelling...
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Now that i listen the "I" is horribly out of tune and all in all not one of pattis better recordings. that said it still trumps bernadettes (ew) and mermans (something is funny about her recorded some people...)
Merman's "Some People" is on the slow side, which is odd because that's the way the song was written by Jule Styne. In subsequent revivals it has been sped up, and I think works better. Merman's version had the passion though, that no-holds-barred mentality that is the force behind Roe in "Some People."
As much as I love Patti Lupone, I don't like anyone who says that someone is beyond criticism. We have our preferences, your preferences are not any more right than anyone else's. No one is beyond criticism, be it God or Patti Lupone.
... and people make fun of Ethel Merman... She was at least on key and knew how to pronounce English. That said Patti Lupone isn't bad, it goes to show you that there are a lot of things more important than what they teach you in singing lessons.
Patti's voice never translates quite as well to recording... she's always much better in person. Still, even with a few questionable notes, the tone of her voice here is thrilling as always.
But if you're able to go see her on Broadway, do it. She's just captivating.
AHHH i need this recording!!!! haha i saw it twice last weekend and im going back jul30 and seeing it again and again! GO SEE GYPSY ITS AMAZING ITS PATTI!
the great thing about this show is that the cast is FANTASTIC. i mean the original material is amazing too but the cast just brought it up a step higher.
Patti Lupone shined in this role that, from some others I have heard who have done it, surely have not done. Patti is a true star of Broadway and even my friend who went with me, who doesn't like musicals, was amazed at how wonderful this revival of "Gypsy" was.
I dont have a problem with flashy and glitzy sometimes it's just what you want like i love phantom and hairspray and wicked but i dont think that patti belongs in a show like that. She needs material not glitz thats why shes so great in concert versions of shows. Shows nowadays are pretty lame but to tell you the truth it's what people want.
you're totally right... i mean come on shows like they're making a Shrek musical and a Spiderman musical... SERIOUSLY! theatre is really dying :'( it is so sad and if you think about it, most of the shows on right now are either a revival or based on movies.
(gypsy is an exception.. :P i mean i got to see patti lupone, laura benanti, and boyd gains!)
You are really closed-minded. If Glee brought some people here, it isn't a crime. I think that so many people are so proud to know Broadway without Glee. Personly, I know this song before Glee but I accept and respect the people that discover Patti Lu Pone by Glee !
GagaPhones 2 weeks ago
C'mon, guys. Does it really matter if Glee brings people here? I mean, at least they're here, right? Obviously, the Glee version of this song isn't as good as the Lupone version or the Merman version or the Bernadette Peters version, but it doesn't have to be. Just enjoy the glory that is Ms. Patti Lupone.
LetThemSleep 2 months ago 4
Disappointing to see how many people come from Glee...
I grew up to this musical. Shut up.
iSingTheChanges 3 months ago 4
@iSingTheChanges Well I didn't so I think it's a wonderful thing that a show like Glee can educate teenage kids who lack musical culture these days and who listen to nothing else but Gaga and Bieber
frederick909 1 month ago
@iSingTheChanges Glee is a freaking nightmare.
o0simplydelovely0o 3 weeks ago
Kurt whipped <3
TheMinnieEgg 4 months ago 2
I am sorry to say.... Every time I hear Ms Lupone sing a song after I hear Bernadette Peter's version, I can't help but feel just a little bit disappointed :\ This entire thing just seems like she is saying "I am performing now."
I don't know what it is! I just NEVER enjoy Patti's performances... and its not for lack of trying... believe me!
TheTombRaider94 4 months ago
what's up with that comment about glee getting 200 plus thumbs up? wanna hear somethin' worth that many thumbs up? PATTI LUPONE STANDS FOR BROADWAY.
ariaaspromised 5 months ago 10
@ariaaspromised neh, this comment doesn't desrve lots of thums up. Don't be so pretentious.
phylosaccount 5 months ago
@phylosaccount don't be such a downer!
ariaaspromised 5 months ago
@phylosaccount I think it's great that a show like Glee brought such wonderful musical pieces to the mainstream culture,it introduced kids and teenagers of our generation to something other than Bieber and Gaga and I think that's great,they're doing a marvelous job...that's why many thumbs up for Glee :)
frederick909 1 month ago
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ariaaspromised 5 months ago
Born to sing this role
donohuem 5 months ago 3
Thumbs up if you aren't here for Glee -.-
MsActress101 5 months ago 18
Dream: Have a Tony Award presented to me by Patti Ann LuPone. ^_^
IDontShine423 5 months ago
Funny... This and the stars of Wicked introduced me to Glee, not opposite-wise... [: Chris Colfer did do a good redention of this song, though. ^.^
IDontShine423 6 months ago 5
@IDontShine423 same here. I had Wicked Gregory Maguire wrote and then I saw the musical for my birthday. Then I heard that Kristen Chenowith and Idina Menzel appeared on Glee and I was hooked!
weirdarmboy 6 months ago
@IDontShine423 Who is chris colfer?
JonesChaplin91203 5 months ago
@JonesChaplin91203 The gay kid- Kurt- from Glee?
IDontShine423 5 months ago
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She's wildly talented, I can hardly wrap my head around it.
tuwbrjj 6 months ago
Chris Colfer did a really great cover of this
renatastarzforeve21 6 months ago
I just adore Patti LuPone, because of Glee xD
nielson12031996 7 months ago 4
I love this version alot better than Bette's version!
joshanderson24 7 months ago
I have just managed in the last ten minutes to fall head over heels in love with Patti Lupone! Her voice is amazing!
joshanderson24 7 months ago
Chris Colfer's rendition is much better in my opinion! :D
jammyjamjamjam1 7 months ago
@jammyjamjamjam1 i agree in terms that i looooove chris' voice, but patti lupone will always own this song. <3
JenniYLee 7 months ago
@jammyjamjamjam1 but its way different so you cant really compare them on which ones better
renatastarzforeve21 6 months ago
Both the Chris Colfer version and the Patti Lupone version are lovely. Alright, it's settled.
tuwbrjj 7 months ago 7
@tuwbrjj Listen, I know it's a matter of taste, but how the hell can you compare them? T__T I mean, I know Chris Colfer is really talented and he's got a great future in front of him, but hell, this is Patti LuPone. 30 years on Broadway. Chris Colfer is incredibly talented, and a good performer, but he's just a kid at last...he ain't got her experience, her magic...he will have it, I don't deny it, but you can't make a comparison between him and this pillar of the entertainment world!
CaliCaliente00 6 months ago 2
i watched all the other versions of some people trying to find one that was as good as chris colfer's.....this was the best besides his....but it's still not as good....
heyimmewhatsup 7 months ago
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CHRIS COLFER PLEASE TAKE US HOME CAUSE ... SHE SUCKS BADASS
strudllekitte339 7 months ago
so, no idiot motherfulker trashtalkers here, just 2 performers who know what they're talking about, and you just seem like an irascible person who wants to get into something theyre not a part of.
P.S. You spelled disappear wrong
LeShawnasBiggestFan 8 months ago
@Mercury0204 @Rachster86, I agree with Rachster86, i didn't mean for it to sound so terrible and slang(was a bad day), i actually do apologize, but me being a performer myself I was qualified to at least share my opinion and my witness of what I have heard personally(Rachster may be right about live performances, I sadly haven't seen one) but regardless, YOU Mercury0204 obvi have no idea what your saying. We never said we could sing better, and as a matter of fact, i was DEFENDING the video
LeShawnasBiggestFan 8 months ago
@LeShawnasBiggestFan I totally get it. I've had bad days as well. :-) You do have every right saying your opinion and I do honor everyone's opinion. For the record, when I was responding to you, I was just stating that you didn't know all the facts about me to formulate a full opinion which is why I responded in the way that I did. I hope I didn't offend you and that there are no hard feelings on your side. I know there aren't on my end. Hope you have many more good days than bad in the future.
Rachster86 7 months ago
@mercury0204 I am on youtube, I'm not talking trash, and I'm not an idiot. I was just saying my opinion as a performer myself and as an audience member when I was lashed at. Excuse me for defending myself. I wasn't trying to say that I am better then anyone else as a person on here. I'm not. I just said to Leshawnasbiggestfan that they were wrong about me.I do know what I'm talking about and I do have an opinion.If you actually got to know me, then you would know I'm actually a nice person.
Rachster86 8 months ago
@LeShawnasBiggestFan, 5. I'm no one but me. I didn't say my opinion to be mean or to make you think I'm a bitch. I'm not. I was just stating that if you are a professional singer/performer, you shouldn't be going out of tune period. I don't care who it is. I would say this about anyone. 6. You clearly don't know what you are talking about because it's not just when she starts it's the entire note and I've heard her sing live when she has done complete phrases out of tune. Hence my opinion.
Rachster86 8 months ago
@Rachster86 @LeShawnasBiggestFan lol both of you idiots post a video of yourselves singing and let's see who's better. Shut the motherfuck up. trash like you people on youtube should dissapear
mercury0204 8 months ago
@LeShawnasBiggestFan, you are so funny starting a fight with me on here. Here is where your logic is flawed. 1. I've been singing/training my entire life with professionals. 2. I'm a professional singer/performer myself. 3. I'm a professional voice teacher and have been teaching for over 9+ years. 4. My specialty in singing myself and in teaching my students is singing with a mix that sounds like a belt. So the fact that you think I don't know what I'm talking about is laughable.
Rachster86 8 months ago
She goes out of tune on all the long big notes in almost every song. It's soo annoying. She's a great actress and performer but come on people! If you go out of tune at all then you don't deserve to be on Broadway in a musical. Just because she has a big voice doesn't mean she is a good singer. Good singers can always control their voices to at least stay in tune. She has proven time and time again that she can't. Sorry but singing out of tune is one of my all times pet peeves.
Rachster86 8 months ago
@Rachster86 Bitch, back the fuck up. Who do you think you are calling out Patti LuPone? You try and do belts like that, ive been singing all my life and I know what I'm talking about. Her crescendo is spot on, her vibrato is impeccable, and her belt is fantastic. You obviously don't know the deeper part of singing, just that you hear she starts a half step below some of her big notes. Take your pet peeve outside, and put a leash on it so it doesn't bite anyone else in the ass
LeShawnasBiggestFan 8 months ago
@Rachster86 Yeah actually I agree- I prefer the Glee version of this- and the Glee version of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables- but her voice is kinda ok
ripthefranks 7 months ago
Whoa, Just saw Kurt sing this on Glee. What a fantastic song! I love it!
powchowder124 8 months ago 10
Like this if Glee brought you here.
wilzkanadi 8 months ago 287
I can't wait for Kurt to sing this...I just realized how many songs he sings that are sung by Patti LuPone.
AnimeVampire1324 8 months ago 125
@AnimeVampire1324 Yes, but his solos are the best. Broadway songs are perfect for him.
carol3793 8 months ago
@carol3793 Completely in agreement with you:)
TheAboutLastNight 8 months ago
@AnimeVampire1324 I want to hear some "Sweeny Todd" on Glee!
misterred23 8 months ago 9
@AnimeVampire1324 Well it's Kurt's favorite artist :) and YES Glee brought me here
frederick909 1 month ago
omg Lupone you suck....if I want a dude singing , I'll find a dude
LearningPatchPal 1 year ago
@LearningPatchPal
What are you talking about? "Dude?" She is an Alto belt, sounds nothing like a man.
She just was not all that great as Rose is all.
Best way to make a gal feel like shit- tell her she is a dude.
Nice going jackass.
ugha323a 1 year ago
Good voice!
pinkydogbear 1 year ago
This woman sounds totally retarded. I am laughing my ass off listening to this. She is as subtle as a tsunami. All I hear is The Patti LuPone Show starring Gypsy. I do not hear Rose at all. I can actually hear the click, click, click of the wheels turning in her head as she sings this. And for those of you who say you had to see her live...I did. Both at City Center and on Broadway because my dear friend played Tulsa in both productions. She is awful. Period. Bernadette needs to mentor her.
KellyBevel 1 year ago
@KellyBevel you sound absolutely stupid, kid. If you don't at least respect LuPone, you clearly have no training or respect for the theatre. How dare you? I love Bernadette too, but she surely doesn't need others to put Patti down just to bring her up. Both are legends of the stage.
RebbieFan 1 year ago
@RebbieFan
Oh for gods sake, put a sock in it.
"How dare You?"
Is LuPone your mother or something?
ugha323a 1 year ago
@ugha323a What are you upset she got all the good parts cuz her belt is stronger than yours? Mind your business & happy new year.
RebbieFan 1 year ago
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ugha323a 1 year ago
@ugha323a TY Dear, thats my hubby
:)
ugha323a 1 year ago
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ugha323a 1 year ago
@RebbieFan
You have not seen me perform, sir/maam.
I challenge ANY of these to go do the Forrest Theatre in Carmel Ca.
It is a 1500 seater that is OUTSIDE in 57 degrees with fog, which is where I played Annie Oakley, also where Judith Anderson, the best Medea ever played, and an array of huge talents that we will never find again.
I simply critiqued Ms LuPone. I gave her appropriate comments. I didnt 'compare', you did.
whats the matter? Cant take someones critique that is accurate?
ugha323a 1 year ago
@ugha323a Alright alright, I guess that was a cheap shot. I'm a performer as well & I know better. I just didn't like the whole "put a sock in it" like I don't have a right to speak thing. What can I say? I'm a LuPone lover. Meanwhile, the videos of you singing are actually wonderful.
RebbieFan 1 year ago
@RebbieFan
Thank you and now I will watch you as well.
I DO like LuPone, I loved her when I saw her in EVITA as a kid, growing up in NY.
My grandmother got really super sick in the late 80's and I accepted a part at the St James theatre for the role of Vera in MAME, and had to turn it down, because family always came first. Now, I am in my 40's and voice very strong.
I also got accepted at ACT in S.F. for scholarship, but that was at the same time as massive sickness came to my Nana.
ugha323a 1 year ago
@KellyBevel
The audience at the Encores production at City Center was ridiculous... during "Small World," the audience was practically not even letting her get through a line without laughing. She hardly had to do anything. It was "let's sit down and watch Patti LuPone play Patti LuPone doing Rose." Totally ridiculous. I'd much rather have watched her actually try and play a character instead of a caricature of herself as Rose.
rlee1976 1 year ago
@rlee1976
I am not a fan of LuPones because of what you just said.
She was EXCELLENT in Evita, though. I was young when I saw it, but she was great.
Too much of a big head now.
ugha323a 1 year ago
@ugha323a
I totally lost respect for her when her comment to the crew telling her to hurry up during her Tony acceptance speech was "Oh, shutup, it's been 29 years!" Ok, I get it Patti, you were in a bunch of shows since Evita. But so were many legends in the generations before her time. And not one of them were so bitter as to act as if they are entitled to the award in some way or other because of the length of time and amount of shows they were nominated for in between awards.
rlee1976 1 year ago
@rlee1976
All of the other Tony Award winners acted GRACEFULLY, this one lacks grace, pinache, and poise.
Merman, Goulet, hell, the list goes on and on of the talent that is SO lacking today. Being humble makes a star charming.
NOBODY is 'entiltled' to anything-we are Americans and WORK for accolades and should act accordingly, even with humility when receiving 1.
I have won many theatrical awards, you can visit my page:) I quit for my Nana, she was very sick for 11 yrs, & needed me :).
ugha323a 1 year ago
@rlee1976
she was joking, everyone laughed. It was charming when she said it's been 29 years. Get over it.
teeseLW 11 months ago
@rlee1976
yeah, that's the mark of a bad performance alright. I hate it when an audience laughs at all my laugh lines. I heard they gave her standing ovations every night and kept it up for 20 minutes on closing night. Oh yeah, and all those tears during the lead up to "Everything's coming Up Roses"..... jeez, ouch that hurts. She must have really sucked.
teeseLW 11 months ago
@KellyBevel
BTW tell your friend I loved him as Tulsa. And he's super-cute too!
rlee1976 1 year ago
@rlee1976
The "Tulsas" are always super cute, and super.....uh....happy ;)
I played Tessie Tura in 1988 in NY. It was fun.
ugha323a 1 year ago
@KellyBevel
I agree 100%.
Nothing like Ethel Merman, Daly, or Liza as well.
I saw her in Evita, she was a standing ovation, but this one, she thinks she IS "Broadway", This show was written for Merman, NOT LuPone, she has too much of a BIG FAT HEAD now.
Sad.. when that happens to thespians.
ugha323a 1 year ago
@ugha323a
Hmmm, interesting. The man who wrote the show had nice things to say about all the women who did the part, but his opinion was the Merman couldn't act and when he wrote about directing Patti Lupone in the show, half his book was a huge valentine to her. She was clearly his favorite actress for that role.
Ps.. his name is Arthur Laurents, buy his book and eat your heart out.
teeseLW 11 months ago
@teeseLW
When you have a voice like Merman, who had plays written for her voice, its far more important that being a weak actor. The song is the center of attraction in a Broadway play. The story line is filler.
TheWWWJTFORG 11 months ago
@TheWWWJTFORG that's not how it is anymore. book comes first, songs come second. but take that knowledge 100 years in the past to ziegfeld and you'll be right!
1117989 8 months ago
@TheWWWJTFORG Well that's one (weak) definition of what defines the appeal of a Broadway show. The story is, to a certain extent, filler. But if you can't deliver song's convincingly, if all you can do is belt out songs with the emotional sensitivity of a sledgehammer, well then maybe you should just be singing at a cabaret, instead of being on Broadway.
mwilson345 8 months ago
she needs to be more animated her speaking is kind of boring and when she holds out her notes and her vibrato shows she like changes keys or something and that drives me CRAZY like listen to this 0:34 !!!
TheTHESPIANS101 1 year ago
i like her vibrato but Bernadette peters is still my favorite
TheTHESPIANS101 1 year ago 3
Neither did Merman!!!She lost to Mary Martin for SOM
TheSpencer1960 1 year ago
Merman did not win either! She lost to Mary Martin for Sound of Music...She ws overheard in the audience saying "ya can't buck a nun!"
TheSpencer1960 1 year ago 3
awesome performance. I personally like Judy Garlands version the best
jrmatenga 1 year ago
doesn't beat bette's version
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gabsylv 1 year ago
Patti..I luv you!! You are the best!! You got it going on, girl. None like the Patti!!
intomybrain12345 2 years ago
Patti....I luv you. You are the best!! You got it going on, girl. None like the Patti!!
intomybrain12345 2 years ago
This has to be one of my favorite songs -- sung by one of the best. Ok, the best. Thanks for posting this video.
btpluss 2 years ago
When she sings "Goodbye to blueberry pie..." I love her. No one shall compare.
itsabitironic963 2 years ago 2
i seem to have missed bette midler so she would be number 4 and the rest move down one.
ricmarc 2 years ago
@ricmarc what about Liza??
btpluss 2 years ago
she never played the role.
ricmarc 2 years ago
plus you really need a voice for this
have you heard Liza recently?
she sounds like Daffy Duck on speed
grai 2 years ago
@grai LMAO
HelenaKoonings 1 year ago
Great voice!!
this is like the 60´s when you hear a beautiful record!!
I´m hearing this tune and boy I like it!!!!
juanitoelchico 2 years ago 2
ITS TRUE the actual recording is high quality some how
better than others
poosaypirate 2 years ago
1. pattie 2 tyne 3 angela 4 ethel 5 bernadette 6 the mish mash from the movie
patti is the best rose
ricmarc 2 years ago
I totally agree... I dont honestly think Ethel Mermans voice was right for this role, and Bernadette was really really bad... which is sad cause shes my favoirte Broadway diva
Evilqueen1985 2 years ago
@Evilqueen1985 Actually, the score (and indeed the entire show) was written specifically *FOR* Ethel Merman!!! As for Bernadette Peters, did you know that Arthur Laurents HIMSELF was a huge fan of Bernadette's performance as Rose? (despite not liking many of Sam Mendes' directorial choices).
I've seen both Patti and Bernadette on Broadway, and Bernadette's Rose was infinitely more sympathetic; she was indomitable AND vulnerable simultaneously.
Rapture1987 1 year ago
@Rapture1987
Exactly, Queen, this IS Mermans show, although everyone now will tell you that Merman was loud and obnoxious, I think she was FABULOUS and I love to imitate her :D
ugha323a 1 year ago
@ugha323a I totally agree. It's Ethel Merman who paved the way for belters in Musical Theatre (that includes Patti LuPone, needless to say!!) Merman provided an alternative to the Soprano Ingenue leads, and proved that "brash" Belters could carry shows as the Female Lead too (no one would have believed it, at the time).
Rapture1987 1 year ago
See my page!
Hell YEAH!
Merman IS the champ and queen of Broadway and will ALWAYS be.
I played Annie Oakley, and the director asked me to copy Merman as much as possible, because that is all anyone remembers.
So, why TRY to follow who did it best?
NOBODY alive can out belt Merman with sounding BIG, Bold and fantastique!
She WAS Broaday, and people that are female/belting thespians now, ought to THANK GOD that she even existed, if it wasnt for her, these foamdomes would NOT exist!
ugha323a 1 year ago
I love Patti Lupone she's always so energetic. =D
Dalthis555 2 years ago 2
Patti LuPone won a Tony for her performance as Madame Rose. So did Tyne Daly. So did Angela Lansbury. But Bernadette Peters did not win a Tony for her performance. Enough said.
jimthewriter 2 years ago 14
Who cares? At least she was nominated.
MisstressFurter 2 years ago 2
Neither did Ethel Merman. What do you say about that?
MichaelCH2007 2 years ago 3
totally with you on that, BUT 2003 was also the year of Hairspray... that show stole everything.
violetcloud 2 years ago
@jimthewriter have you learned anything about the Tony's through the years, ESPECIALLY this past years? Enough said.
TheBirdElephant 1 year ago
@jimthewriter
Yeah, Bernadette Peters as Rose? Were they joking or what?
Ethel Mermen, imo, did this sing better than anyone ever.
I LUV Tyne too, she had a great character in REAL life, I met her.
Angela Lansbury can act all of them straight off the stage.
ugha323a 1 year ago
@jimthewriter Thought that I was the only one who thought the same thing.
007esq 9 months ago
A brilliant performance. Patti LuPone is a legendary Rose.
jimthewriter 2 years ago 11
If I wanted to sing 16 bars of this song, about how long (minutes-wise), would that be?
boynamedalexxx 2 years ago
Ud have to find out. its 16 four counts. Just count to 4 16 times. Like 1 and a half minutes thats usually where i cut it. Anywhere between 1-1.5 min is good.
MrRustyCharlie 2 years ago
she is so amazing
jenholland 2 years ago
Patti LuPone is Broadway Legend. Sooo....amazing. I absolutely love her as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd in Concert," and her Evita is simply brilliant.
elharolde11235 2 years ago
I'm all about Bette Midler in the movie. Tho Pati is certainly awesome.
mypondlife 3 years ago 5
I saw it closing night on my birthday....unbelievable.
Chouette11192 3 years ago
saw this play and shes abosolutly amazing!!!!
kristinchenofan570 3 years ago 3
i just saw it omg it rocks!!!!!!!!!!
xxActing4Lifexx 3 years ago 3
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Great version but liza's is better
francerobert58 3 years ago
She does not yell. She sings awesome.
EnchantedSilence 3 years ago 4
personally, i don't like this version.. i think bette midler is waaaay better!! she gives mor emotion. and patti yells.
kayceejoanne 3 years ago
Okay, for starters Bernadette Peters production of Gypsy was NOT a commercial or critical flop! Bernadette's production ran 1 year and I month, Patti's will run a little under a year. If Patti's was more successful, it would not be closing a month sooner than Bern's did. Plus, Bern got rave reviews from USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playbill, the list goes on and on. She got a standing ovation at the Tonys just like Patti did AND her Gypsy cast recording won a Grammy.
Brathford 3 years ago 4
Gypsy is closing because they'd have a hard time replacing Patti. Not because it's not as successful.
oprahnoodlemantra 3 years ago
why is patti leaving?
midgetashley 3 years ago
personally, i think they are BOTH amazing, but they have different voices and a different take on the role :)did u see a run of it?? i wish i did :(
bigasista 3 years ago 4
When is it closing? I want to see it! :)
littlelomax 3 years ago
It WAS closing March 1 but you know how the economy and what not is not allowing people to see broadway shows as much, so now it's closing January 11. I'm so upset I never got to see it.
oprahnoodlemantra 3 years ago
Times are hard if a Patti LuPone show(or even Gypsy, for that matter) closes early!
PattiLuponeFan216 3 years ago 5
i think the cast recording for patti is better and i thought that patti was better when i saw it on broadway... but still its gypsy's 3 time on b-way,and the roses have been: ethel merman bernadette peters and patti lupone! it couldn't get any better than that!
broadwaybabe1234 3 years ago 2
Gypsy's FIFTH time on Broadway. You left out Angela Lansbury and Tyne Daly
richhanson59 3 years ago 2
I personally love Patti's rose much better then Bern's. I love Bernadette Peters with all of my heart, but this role was Patti's best I believe. Both are amazing though.
LadyLizard 3 years ago 6
I see Gypsy every Sunday matinee, front row seats and I got to meet her last Sunday. It was great. I have been the professor several shows and I have the pieces of paper she throws and the apples. I think I'm going to put "Professor" in Gypsy in my bios for kicks.
broadwaybaby1986 3 years ago
That was one of the best recordings of Gypsy I heard and this is going by youtube...I'm sure she's great live.
emms25 3 years ago
I saw Patti in "GYPSY" this past Wednesday evening, at the St James Theatre on 44th Street... simply BRILLIANT show and performance from Patti AND the entire cast of this marvelous show!!! I thouroughly enjoyed this show; truly a highlight of my trip to Manhattan and New York City. I'll never forget it and remember it fondly :)
novascotiawill 3 years ago
hey everyone! guess whos reading for pop on the recording. ill give you a hint. hes really old and he wrote and directed a hell of a musical! i thought it was nice that they snuk him in.
Selendomono 3 years ago
i thought pattis version of aome people was a little... too much. Of course shes still my favorite.
Selendomono 3 years ago
How is it too much? It's perfect...SHE IS GOD!!! I saw it last Sunday.
ILoveMyPatches 3 years ago 3
If you thought it was too much you should see liza minelli perform it...
TheTrendSetter89 3 years ago 6
oye vey, liza minelli sang this?..now that would be over the top
bigasista 3 years ago 2
monrocsol, im not saying shes bad at all i was replying to nycagents comment because he said she was boring and dull...ive seen gypsy and it was the best show i ever saw!!
broadwaydoll731 3 years ago
i gave you a thumbs down but now i take it back. lol.
Debola91 3 years ago
I don't like how she hits that high note on "Rose" at the end of the song. That note should be reserved for when she sings "Rose" at the end of the song's bridge, or what's called "Seattle to Los Angeles" on the new cast recording. That's the way I have directed it, and the way I think it sounds best.
GoodbyeToBlueberyPie 3 years ago
I'm gonna see this with her again, I'm soooo excited, I'm probalby gonna get the album.
TheQuestionBoy4 3 years ago
i loved her in this role i saw her too!
sachaboutros 3 years ago
capital P, buddy.
squeegeebeckenhiem 3 years ago
im sorry your all gonna kill me but.. Patti is a better mama rose.. but in Some People .. bernadette actually has a better version.. Pattis version is just too much of a concert verion .. its just tooo much... its too patti not enough Rose... and ive heard other live recordings and its the same...
MissSabrinaD 3 years ago
I agree with you, and I'm someone who thinks Patti is brilliant as Mama Rose and Peters was, well, let's just say a hue flop. In her, Patti, defense though, when you see hr acting live with this song it is much more compelling...
GoodbyeToBlueberyPie 3 years ago
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Now that i listen the "I" is horribly out of tune and all in all not one of pattis better recordings. that said it still trumps bernadettes (ew) and mermans (something is funny about her recorded some people...)
Selendomono 3 years ago
Merman's "Some People" is on the slow side, which is odd because that's the way the song was written by Jule Styne. In subsequent revivals it has been sped up, and I think works better. Merman's version had the passion though, that no-holds-barred mentality that is the force behind Roe in "Some People."
GoodbyeToBlueberyPie 3 years ago
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Boring and dull no depth as rose
nycagent 3 years ago
which is why she won a tony for her role as rose...because shes boring and dull right?
broadwaydoll731 3 years ago
you don't know what you are talking about. Go to the show and you'll be nailed with Ms Lupone's Rose's Turn. A torrent of a voice!
Monrocsol 3 years ago 2
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patti is simply BORING
nycagent 3 years ago
dude thats like the dumbest thing to say ever!
out of all people shes boring?
shes crazy amazing!
and one of like the funniest people ever
tatyrules12 3 years ago 24
NO! how could she be boring if she won the tony. i saw this musical a few days ago and she was AMAZING!
tanan18 3 years ago 6
I agree. Anyone who criticizes Patti is either deaf, blind, tone deaf or just plain stupid
PattiLuponeFan216 3 years ago 3
As much as I love Patti Lupone, I don't like anyone who says that someone is beyond criticism. We have our preferences, your preferences are not any more right than anyone else's. No one is beyond criticism, be it God or Patti Lupone.
Liontamarin 3 years ago
I loved her in Evita and I love her in Gypsy!
Monrocsol 3 years ago
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... and people make fun of Ethel Merman... She was at least on key and knew how to pronounce English. That said Patti Lupone isn't bad, it goes to show you that there are a lot of things more important than what they teach you in singing lessons.
exiron0202 3 years ago
Patti's voice never translates quite as well to recording... she's always much better in person. Still, even with a few questionable notes, the tone of her voice here is thrilling as always.
But if you're able to go see her on Broadway, do it. She's just captivating.
tremendousswell 3 years ago 4
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Sorry to be the Simon Cowell here, but that was quite painful. Especially at 0:40...waaay out of tune...surprising that they didn't re-record it.
Bernadette Peter's version is far superior in so many ways.
dannybex 3 years ago
Not
grandmagrumpy 3 years ago 2
Thanks for your reply Patti.
dannybex 3 years ago
LOL!
Just my POV.
I wish I were PATTI!
But Patti was NOT OUT OF TUNE. let's take a vote! checking out the 0:40 area.
It's fine!
grandmagrumpy 3 years ago 2
Okay. Here's my vote. She's out of tune. "But IIIIIIIIIIII at least gotta try. The "I" is at least a half-key sharp -- too high -- than it should be.
Have fun voting. :)
dannybex 3 years ago
okay, yeah there is something funny with that note... I just thought the vibrato tht carried it up a bit...
hmmm listening some more ...
grandmagrumpy 3 years ago
i love bernadette but omg not as mama rose her voice is OVERLY nasily to be singing this big.
elphabaaleka 3 years ago 5
AHHH i need this recording!!!! haha i saw it twice last weekend and im going back jul30 and seeing it again and again! GO SEE GYPSY ITS AMAZING ITS PATTI!
idinamenzel03 3 years ago
This version is actually a little bland compared to others... that ive heard in the past...
MissSabrinaD 3 years ago
SPIDERMAN THE MUSICAL!!!!???? Shoot me now! >.>
Selendomono 3 years ago 3
Her Tony speech was hilarious. "Shut up it's been 29 years!" Lol, I love her, and her voice.
broadway09 3 years ago
the great thing about this show is that the cast is FANTASTIC. i mean the original material is amazing too but the cast just brought it up a step higher.
broadwaydude 3 years ago
Patti Lupone shined in this role that, from some others I have heard who have done it, surely have not done. Patti is a true star of Broadway and even my friend who went with me, who doesn't like musicals, was amazed at how wonderful this revival of "Gypsy" was.
travmac 3 years ago
I dont have a problem with flashy and glitzy sometimes it's just what you want like i love phantom and hairspray and wicked but i dont think that patti belongs in a show like that. She needs material not glitz thats why shes so great in concert versions of shows. Shows nowadays are pretty lame but to tell you the truth it's what people want.
Selendomono 3 years ago 2
you're totally right... i mean come on shows like they're making a Shrek musical and a Spiderman musical... SERIOUSLY! theatre is really dying :'( it is so sad and if you think about it, most of the shows on right now are either a revival or based on movies.
(gypsy is an exception.. :P i mean i got to see patti lupone, laura benanti, and boyd gains!)
broadwaydude 3 years ago
finally someone who has the voice for the score..... no offense to the other roses but the BIG voice is essential
bob11cav 3 years ago 7