Lyric Opera 2024-2025 Issue 3 - Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes

11 | Lyric Opera of Chicago PATTI LUPONE LuPone returned to Broadway this fall to co-star with Mia Farrow in Jen Silverman’s comedy The Roommate, directed by Jack O’Brien, and co-stars in the new Marvel series Agatha All Along , on Disney+. She is a three-time Tony Award winner for her performances as Joanne in the award- winning production of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical Company, Madame Rose in the most recent Broadway revival of the Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents classic Gypsy, and the title role in the original Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita . Her New York stage credits include: War Paint (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Shows for Days; The Seven Deadly Sins (NY City Ballet); Company (NY Philharmonic); Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Award nominations); Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations); Noises Off ; The Old Neighborhood ; Master Class ; Anything Goes (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Oliver! ; Accidental Death of an Anarchist ; The Water Engine; and The Robber Bridegroom (Tony and Drama Desk nominations) . London credits include Company (Olivier Award, WhatsOn Stage Award); Master Class ; Sunset Boulevard ( Olivier Award nomination); Les Misérables; and The Cradle Will Rock (Olivier Award for her performances in both productions). Opera highlights include: The Ghosts of Versailles (LA Opera); To Hell and Back (SF Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (LA Opera-debut); and Regina (Kennedy Center). Films include: Beau is Afraid; The School for Good and Evil (Netflix); Last Christmas; Cliffs of Freedom ; The Comedian; Parker ; Union Square; Driving Miss Daisy; and Witness. Television and streaming credits include: Hollywood, Pose, Mom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Penny Dreadful (Critics Choice Award nomination), Girls, American Horror Story (“NYC” and “Coven”), 30 Rock, Glee, Frasier (Emmy nomination), and four seasons as Libby Thatcher on ABC’s Life Goes On. She is a founding member of both the Drama Division of The Juilliard School and John Houseman’s The Acting Company and the author of the New York Times best-seller Patti LuPone: A Memoir. JOSEPH THALKEN MUSIC DIRECTION AND ARRANGEMENTS An award-winning composer, conductor, and pianist whose theater and concert works have been performed internationally, Thalken is the composer of the musicals Was , Harold & Maude , Fall of ’94 , Borrowed Dust , and Inventions for Piano . His concert works encompass chamber, choral, orchestral, wind ensemble, and vocal music. His ballet, Chasing Home , was recently recorded by the Dallas Chamber Symphony, and will be released later this year. He is the composer of the podcast Radio Play Revival . In addition to Patti LuPone, he has served as music director and/or arranger for luminaries of Broadway and classical music, including Julie Andrews, Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters, Renée Fleming, Rebecca Luker, Marin Mazzie, Liz Callaway, Sierra Boggess, Catherine Malfitano, Elizabeth Futral, Kristin Chenoweth, Sally Wilfert, Polly Bergen, Faith Prince, Hugh Panaro, Michael Crawford, Howard McGillin, Jason Danieley, Nathan Gunn, Rodney Gilfry, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and many more. He has taught music theater composition at Yale and is a graduate of Northwestern University. BRAD PHILLIPS STRINGS Phillips has become known as “Sideman to the Stars,” having worked with Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Pat Metheny, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, The Verve Pipe, Grammy-winner Mark O’Connor, and countless singer-songwriters and artists from the Great Lakes Region. He is especially known for his long-standing musical collaborations with Emmy Award-winning actor/singer/ songwriter and fellow Michigander, Jeff Daniels. Brad holds a BFA in Jazz Studies and a MM in Improvisation from the University of Michigan where he now serves as a lecturer in the department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation. A composer, arranger, musical director, singer-songwriter, record producer, theatrical sound designer, actor, and multi-instrumentalist, he also serves as a resident artist at Daniels’s Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Michigan, where he has contributed to more than 25 plays in various creative capacities. Artist profiles