Patti will headline Adelaide Cabaret Festival, before undertaking a national tour which is set to stop in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway, film and television superstar will perform an array of songs which are touchstones and reflections of her life growing up in America – as a young girl during the burgeoning rock and roll scene of the ‘50s, to coming of age in the ‘60s, and the success she has achieved with both career and family.
Patti LuPone’s credits include ‘Sweeney Todd’, ‘Anything Goes’, and the original London productions of ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Sunset Boulevard’, and her Tony Award-winning work in ‘Evita’, ‘Gypsy’ and Marianne Elliot’s new production of ‘Company’.
On screen she has starred in ‘Life Goes On’, ‘Frasier’, ’30 Rock’, ‘Penny Dreadful’, ‘Pose’, ‘Hollywood’, ‘American Horror Story ‘and the upcoming Marvel series ‘Agatha: Darkhold Diaries’.
This will be LuPone’s third concert tour in Australia. It follows her triumphant debut here in 1981, as Eva Peron in Evita.
“I love Australia and the many friends I’ve made since 1981,” Patti says. “I’m so looking forward to coming back. I hope audiences will enjoy my show ‘A Life in Notes’, a musical memoir of my life growing up in America.”
“There are bucket-list artists who I have dreamed of working with, and Patti LuPone has definitely been one of them. She is one of the most extraordinary performers in the world and it is an honour to bring her to Australia and share that power that she has become so famous for with audiences here,” live entertainment producer Michael Cassel (Michael Cassel Group CEO and Producer) says.
Things kick off with a show at Adelaide Cabaret Festival before heading to the other states.
“Patti LuPone is an icon, a titan of the industry. And the voice, my friends, the voice!” Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director Virginia Gay says. “Immediately identifiable, totally unmistakable, iconically her – an artistic calling card of spectacular weight and beauty. We are beyond thrilled that Patti is starting her tour at Adelaide Cabaret Festival. This is an extraordinary opportunity for Adelaide, and Australia, to see a living legend at the top of her game. . . Right here, on your doorstep.”
Patti LuPone 2024 Australia Tour Dates
19 June – Adelaide Festival Centre
21-22 June – City Recital Hall (Sydney)
24-25 June – Palais Theatre (Melbourne)
27 June – Queensland Performing Arts Centre
