Patti LuPone papers, 1940-2024, bulk 1969-2024
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1978
- Bib ID:
- 14208859 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- LuPone, Patti
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 66 Linear Feet (56 scrapbooks; 2 Tube Boxes; 49 manuscript boxes; 1 flat box)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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The 56 scrapbooks are located on site.
Boxes 1-44 and boxes 46-49 of this collection are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Description
Content Description
The collection consists of 56 archival albums of clippings, opening night notes and assorted letters and telegrams dating from 1968 through to the present. There are eight boxes of scripts with the actress' notations from her various stage productions, films and television appearances.
In addition there are programs, photographs, and related memorabilia from her five decade career, which began in Group One of the Juilliard School's Drama Division, that later became The Acting Company, though her many Broadway and West End performances.
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Series I: Scrapbooks, 1968-2022
Scrapbooks contain a mixture of correspondence (in various formats), press clippings, photographs, and various ephemera collected by Patti LuPone in the service of her theatrical career (1968-present).
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Series III: Music, 1988-circa 1999
Full Orchestral Scores & Parts
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Series VI: Press, Posters, Magazines, Books, and Ephemera, 1940-2022
Arrangement
Arranged in seven series.
- Series I: Scrapbooks, 1968-2022
- Series II: Scripts, 1969-2022
- Series III: Music, 1988-circa 1999
- Series IV: Playbills, 1950-2019
- Series V: Programs, 1965-2024
- Series VI: Press, Posters, Magazines, Books, and Ephemera, 1940-2022
- Series VII: Photographs, 1998-2006
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
The 56 scrapbooks are located on site.
Boxes 1-44 and boxes 46-49 of this collection are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Patti LuPone Collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Accruals are expected.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Patti LuPone, 2019, 2022. 2024
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Processed by Patrick Lawlor, 2019
Boxes 46-50 processed by Callum Blackmore (GSAS) in February 2024
Biographical / Historical
Patti LuPone is a graduate of the first class of the Drama Division of New York's Juilliard School and a founding member of John Houseman's The Acting Company in which she toured the country for four years. Her subsequent New York credits include Dario Fo's Accidental Death of An Anarchist, David Mamet's The Water Engine, Edmond and The Woods and Israel Horovitz' Stage Directions and performances in the musicals Pal Joey for City Center Encores!, Anything Goes (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Cradle Will Rock, Oliver!, Evita (Tony and Drama Desk Awards- Best Actress in a Musical), Working and The Robber Bridegroom. In London, she won the Olivier Award for her performances as Fantine in the original production of Les Miserables and in the Acting Company production of The Cradle Will Rock. She also created the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award, and recreated her Broadway performance of Maria Callas in Master Class.
Since 2000 LuPone has appeared regularly at the Ravinia Festival. First in its Sondheim series when she starred as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Desiree in A Little Night Music, Fosca in Passion, Cora Hooper in Anyone Can Whistle, Madame Rose in Gypsy and in two different roles in Sunday in the Park with George. Her subsequent appearances there include a reprise of her performance in Heggie's To Hell and Back, a concert performance of Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins and starring in the title role in a concert production of Annie Get Your Gun.
LuPone has starred in the Broadway musical War Paint (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Douglas Carter Beane's new play Shows For Days, directed by Jerry Zaks at Lincoln Center Theater, her debut with the New York City Ballet as Anna in their new production of The Seven Deadly Sins, Joanne in the New York Philharmonic's production of Company, David Mamet's The Anarchist, and Lincoln Center Theater's production of the musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for which she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Winner of the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Performance of the Season for her performance as Madame Rose in the most recent Broadway production of Gypsy, her other stage credits include appearances with the Los Angeles Opera in their new production of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles and Weill-Brecht's Mahagonny (debut), the world premiere of Jake Heggie's opera To Hell and Back with San Francisco's Baroque Philharmonia Orchestra, Mrs. Lovett in John Doyle's production of Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations; Drama League Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre), the title role in Marc Blitzstein's Regina, a musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes at the Kennedy Center, Fosca in a concert version of Passion, which was also broadcast on PBS' Live From Lincoln Center, a multi-city tour of her theatrical concert Matters of the Heart, the City Center Encores! productions of Can-Can and Pal Joey, the NY Philharmonic's productions of Candide and Sweeney Todd (NY Phil debut) and performances on Broadway in Michael Frayn's Noises Off, David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood, Terrence McNally's Master Class and in her own concert Patti LuPone On Broadway.
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