No, dolls, I did not speak with Patti personally--can you imagine?-- but I did hear some very practical information from her, the other day, on YouTube,
Patti is feeling the pandemic, too. She should be performing "COMPANY" right now, and David and I should either have seen it by now, or purchased tickets for that.
Forget it!
PATTI is Broadway, not BARBRA!
BARBRA, if you had followed a stage trajectory, rather than writing it off, after "Funny Girl, you might have become Broadway!
Patti never wrote anything off. She did stage, TV, movies, concerts, and don't forget Fantine in London.
So, Patti knows her stuff. If anyone in the biz does, it is she.
She was asked by a reporter when she thought Broadway would come back. She said not until sometime in 2021.
I have to agree with her. I mean, be realistic, with everyone crammed in to a sold-out engagement??????? She also said that places like concert halls and arena sports stadiums, would come back last. I think she is right. And I think it will be more the end of that year, than the beginning. I mean, look where we are now?
So, girls, listen to Patti! She knows!
But Patti, how I would have loved to see you live on stage in "COMPANY!"
The show must go on!
ReplyDeleteFrom her basement in Connecticut!
I’ve always loved how she speaks her mind
Just finished watching her bang-up performance in Ryan Murphy's new "Hollywood" miniseries for Netfilx, wherein she plays the seething betrayed wife of a studio head in the '40s who seizes control after he keels over, installing her gigolo prostitute boy toy as the new rising star and putting a promising young black girl front and center as a romantic lead, causing the Klan to come after her. Patti has a ball with this, and I swear all of her costumes are sly, exact replicas of the wardrobe from her aborted turn as Norma Desmond in the musical "Sunset Blvd".
ReplyDeleteHolland Taylor is also a hoot as a thinly disguised Hedda Hopper, and I thought they sneaked Sarah Paulson in unbilled as Eleanor Roosevelt until the closeup revealed her to be Harriet Sansom Harris. Joe Mantello as a closeted production chief, Paget Brewster as Talullah Bankhead, Jim Parsons as Henry Wilson (predatory agent who made Rock Hudson a star- for a price), Katie McGuiness as Vivien Leigh, and Dylan McDermott as the notorious pimp who supplied male hustlers to any star who asked (based on that guy who wrote a scandalous tell-all a few years back).
ReplyDeleteI am curious about this program,
but do not expect anything great
from it. I cannot wait for Sarah
Paulson as Nurse Ratched!
ReplyDeleteVictoira,
I, too love hearing from Patti,
and that she is not afraid to
speak up!