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The 58 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.
Arranged in seven series.
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.
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.
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.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Patti LuPone Collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals are expected.
Processed by Patrick Lawlor, 2019
Boxes 46-50 processed by Callum Blackmore (GSAS) in February 2024
Gift of Patti LuPone, 2019, 2022. 2024
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
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).
(Opening night to closing night)
75th Tony Awards
Production: Summer 2021, Quebec, Canada Premier: 1 April 2023 at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Theatrical Release: 14 April 2023
Production: January - April 2023 at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, GA Premier: 18 September 2024 on Disney+
By Bill Carter. Revised draft.
Written by Victor Colioccho, Michael Imperioli, and Spike Lee. Inscribed.
Book and lyrics by George Furth, music by George Katsaros. Includes a letter from George Furth.
Episode #715 ("Bully Woolley"), fully collated final draft, second revision. Signed by the cast. Written by Greg Malins.
Includes: annotated script and score; research materials about Helena Rubenstein; cast lists; typed notes from readings and workshops; handwritten notes; makeup design for LuPone's character, a laminated photocopy of a letter from Rubenstein to Julia Kahn.
Compiled by Jonathan L. Green for the Goodman Theatre
Music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie, book by Doug Wright. Annotated.
Music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie, book by Doug Wright. Annotated.
Annotated. Includes a cast list.
Annotated.
Pilot episode by Todd Linden for Sony and HBO. Includes a
Screenplay by Ari Aster. Later titled
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Original binder label: "Torch Acts 1 & 2 C.H. 2005"
Binder label "Symphony Doris and Ethel P/V Charts"
Full Orchestral Scores & Parts
Published score by John Corigliano. Signed by the composer. Annotated. A lyric sheet is taped to the front inside cover.
Handwritten.
Handwritten lead sheets for song arrangements, filed roughly alphabetically (often by title keyword, in two folders, A-L and M-Y). Includes photocopies, some typeset arrangements, and some concert scores. In some cases, the chord symbols have been notated onto photocopies of the published sheet music. Some are stapled or taped together. Songs in folder 1 include: "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," "Again," "Alone Again (Naturally)," "A Boy Like That/I Have a Love," "A Mile Down the Highway (There's a Toll Bridge)," "Bewitched," "Can't Stop Me From Loving You," "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," "The Carter Family," "Cry Me a River," "Daddy," "Diamonds are Forever," "Don't Like Goodbyes," "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House," "Fanfare," "Hamlet," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "I've Still Got My Health," "I Only Have Eyes for You," "I Never Do Anything Twice," "I Want a Man," "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake," "If It's Magic," "Ill Wind," "Just the Way You Look Tonight," "Let Yourself Go: Steppin' Out." Songs in folder 2 include: "Men," "My Best To You," "Meadowlark," "My Way," "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer," "Never Never Land," "Oil and Water Dance," "Ol' Man River," "Ridin' High," "Stop! in the Name of Love," "Tonight's the Kind of Night," "A Weekend in the Country," "West Coast Blues," "The Wing and the Wheel," "Who's Seducin' Who?," "You Don't Know Me," "You Mustn't Be Discouraged," "You'll Never Walk Alone," "You're the Top."
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Playbill & Small Program
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(2 copies)
Playbill & Small Program
With letter dated May 23, 2022
Includes the annual season guide and the January-June season guides. Both contain an entry for the "Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes" performance on 2024-04-08.
Awarded to Patti LuPone by the New York Theatre Company; includes insert.
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(2 copies)
(LuPone's acclaimed cabaret show, one of her two solo Broadway concerts)
Includes a picture of Patti LuPone for the cover story "Passion, Drama, Madness, and Hype?: Inside the Making of Sunset Boulevard."
Includes a picture of Patti LuPone
Contains photographs gifted from the makeup team of
Contains: printouts of profiles, biographies, and critical assessments of Stephen Sondheim; annotated lists of questions for Sondheim; printouts of quotes by and about Sondheim.
Includes a seperate list of the people in the photograph.