Patti LuPone Revives Gershwin and Tennessee Williams

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 20, 2015

Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone talks about her return to 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club that she opened nearly 3 years ago. Her concert, "The Lady with The Torch" (April 2 - 14), is an eclectic collection of torch songs by such composers and lyricists as Arthur Schwartz, George and Ira Gershwin, and Cole Porter. In addition, on April 27, she’ll be starring in a one night only performance of Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo” at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater. The play tells the story of Serafina (LuPone), a Louisiana widow who withdraws from the world after her husband's death, until one day a man resembling her late husband comes into her life and unlocks her fiery passion, anger and pride.

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