I’ve been meaning to write about the incredible experience of being in the audience at the performance of Gypsy in which Patti Lupone battered the fourth wall into tiny, tiny, tiny pieces, but I haven’t had the time to collect my thoughts—or really, to recover. I do hope to detail the extraordinary command performance, but until then here’s the remix.
“Patti Lupone, she gonna beat you”
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Oh my god, you were there for this? To merely see Patti LuPone in Gypsy would be something, but to be at THIS performance? You’ll be telling your grandchildren about it.
Oh– remember that day in San Francisco when I ran into you outside that cafe on the cliffs? It was my birthday, and Ted took me from brunch to a spa day, then a dinner with a bottle of wine, then front row seats for a one-man show. After the spa day and the wine, I just couldn’t stay awake. As I was desperately trying and failing to keep my eyes open, the actor came and stood right in front of me while shouting out his line: “YOU CAN’T JUST SLEEP YOUR LIFE AWAY!” I must say, it woke me up.