Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin Headed to Broadway for Fall Concert Run

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin will re-team on Broadway for the first time since their Tony-winning performances in Evita when they bring their concert show to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin will begin a limited engagement of 63 performances on November 16 and open on November 21, directed by Patinkin. The run will continue through January 13, 2012.

LuPone and Patinkin have appeared in concert together numerous times over the years and are arriving on Broadway after well-reviewed stops around the U.S., Toronto, Australia and New Zealand. According to a regional review, An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin focuses on the music of Stephen Sondheim and Richard Rodgers and includes songs by writers as diverse as Vernon Duke and Antonio Carlos Jobim. The show features musical staging consulting by Ann Reinking. Patinkin’s longtime pianist Paul Ford will accompany the duo.

LuPone, a Tony winner for Gypsy and Evita, was most recently seen on Broadway in a Tony-nominated performance in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. She also received Tony nominations for Sweeney Todd, Anything Goes and The Robber Bridegroom.

Patinkin starred in Compulsion at the Public Theater last season. In addition to his Tony for Evita (as Che Guevara), he received Tony nominations for The Wild Party and Sunday in the Park with George. His Broadway credits include The Secret Garden and Falsettos. Patinkin was featured on film in The Princess Bride and starred in the TV series Chicago Hope, Criminal Minds and Dead Like Me.

An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin features production design by David Korins, lighting design by Eric Cornwell and sound design by Daniel Gerhard. The show is being produced by Staci Levine.