Tonys Latest: Patti LuPone wins her 3rd award of her career
13.06.2022 - 04:25
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Tony Awards (all times local):8:30 p. m. Patti LuPone has won the third Tony of her illustrious career for her work in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company.
”The show is an exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, traditionally focusing on a 35-year-old bachelor. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples swapped around. LuPone plays Joanne, the acerbic character who sings the anthem “The Ladies Who Lunch.
” She has had a long history with the character and this legendary song in particular, performing “Ladies Who Lunch” at Sondheim’s 80th birthday concert. LuPone won her first Tony for “Evita,” earned two more nominations for revivals of “Anything Goes” and “Sweeney Todd” before winning her second prize in 2008 for her performance as Rose in “Gypsy. ”For the latest Tony, LuPone beat Jeannette Bayardelle in “Girl From the North Country,” Shoshana Bean in “Mr.
Saturday Night,” Jayne Houdyshell from “The Music Man,” L Morgan Lee from “A Strange Loop” and Jennifer Simard in “Company. ”___MORE ON THE TONYS— Tony Awards begin with non-acting honors handed out— List of Tony winners so far— On Broadway, more visibility, yes, but also an unseen threat— Pioneering Camille A. Brown creates a Broadway rainbow— Tracy Letts on writing his play and then having to act in it___8:10 p.
m. Host Ariana DeBose has kicked off the Tony Awards and Jesse Tyler Ferguson has won the first acting award of the night. DeBose, wearing a sparkling white jumpsuit and wide-brimmed hat, danced and sang a song that mashed up shards of musical theater favorites, like “Chicago, “The Wiz,” “Evita,” “Rent,” “Hair,” “Cabaret,” “Hairspray” and “West Side Story,” the movie remake for which she won an
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