Though, her blood feud against Webber raged on. It was during that run that LuPone announced that she and Close had made amends at the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors, and the two divas were seen grabbing a drink together last year with Andrew Rannells and Jon Hamm. That effort incidentally ran at the same time that Close was on Broadway reviving her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. At 68 years-old, she says her most recent play War Paint will be her last. It seems, though, that finally LuPone is in a forgiving mood. For years, that grudge extended to Close as well, who went on to win a Tony for the role (LuPone lost her shot at the Olivier). She’d quip that Sicilians don’t let grudges go. LuPone has been pissed at everyone involved ever since, something she freely admitted over the years. She famously claimed to use the money to add a pool to her home, which she nicknamed “The Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool.” She wound up taken Webber to court over breach of contract and won a reported $1 million settlement.
When the press asked about her relationship with Webber at the time, she quipped, “I have nothing nice to say about the man, so I choose to say nothing at all.” Over the years, however, she would end up saying lots. Then I heaved the lamp out the second-floor window.” “I swung at everything in sight-mirrors, wig stands, makeup, wardrobe, furniture, everything. “I took batting practice in my dressing room with a floor lamp,” LuPone wrote in her own memoir. It was in her London dressing room where LuPone got word that New York gossip columnist Liz Smith was about to break the news that, indeed, it would be Close who would get the prized role on Broadway. Meanwhile, Glenn Close was simultaneously playing the part in a Los Angeles production. Barbra Streisand took her hand at recording two of the biggest songs. Meryl Streep was reportedly offered the part. That is, until word started spreading that Webber was considering other actresses for the lead role of Norma Desmond. LuPone was in London starring in the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s then new musical Sunset Boulevard 24 years ago, with great success (she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award) and under the impression that she’d move with the production when it crossed the pond later that year for its debut on Broadway. In 1994, LuPone was on the victim end of what she must have felt was one of Broadway’s biggest scandals, and has since certainly turned into one of theater’s longest standing feuds. To the Add a Pool section of the site, read the first page, then fill out the questionnaire.Hell hath no fury like a Patti LuPone scorned. What we have in each listing is the latest news we have.)Īlso, please consider checking the listings of the pools you regularly use at home or when traveling, as your knowledge may be helpful to someone else who is unfamiliar with the area and visiting for the first time. (No, it's not a place for you to ask us questions. The edit button to tell us what needs to be changed. There is an "Edit" button on just about every line of every listing, click on To complete in many places, prices will change four or five times before we have a chance to check the pool’s official website again.įor that reason, we ask for your help: If any of the information in the listing is incorrect, out of date, or could be improved, please tell us. The data in the site is under continual review and is revised whenever the site’s editor becomes aware of a change, but, with more than 20,000 listings, a complete, periodic review of every listing takes about seven years Look to those resources within each listing for more detailed information. Pools’ own official websites and Facebook pages, clickable email addresses, and links to the websites of the clubs and teams that swim there. Where possible, we include hypertext links to the
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