Jonathan Groff (‘Just in Time’) & Nicole Scherzinger (‘Sunset Boulevard’) go “balls deep” (their words, not ours) and talk about Scherzinger’s incredibly long run both on the West End and now Broadway, what it was like for her to get Patti LuPone’s approval, and how Groff brought Bobby Darin to the stage.
The legendary actress gave the performance of her career in the 1983 classic Terms of Endearment as an often overbearing mother whose daughter (played by Debra Winger) is dying of cancer.
In this hospital scene, it is time for her daughter’s pain shot and MacLaine’s Aurora Greenway clearly doesn’t feel the nurse is moving fast enough.
She absolutely loses it in a way that only a mother could.
MacLaine won the Academy Award for best actress beating out a field that also included Winger.
BONUS VIDEO: TCM is wishing a very happy birthday to Shirley by highlighting a few of their favorite stand-out roles of hers including the gangster’s fiancée in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) and the glamorous wife of a business mogul in Being There (1979).
There’s no one else like her and today she turns 83!!
She is, of course, Barbra Streisand, who has been a superstar for more than 60 years and remains in fine form today even if her output of films and new recordings has steadily decreased – especially in the past decade.
But what an epic life and career in music, in movies and on stage!
This Oscar-winning actress and songwriter, Golden Globe-winning film director, multi-Emmy winning performer and producer, and multiple-Grammy Award winning singer has done it just about as well as anyone ever has and maintained the highest of standards throughout.
She’s a legend!
Here are some of her most classic musical performances over the decades.
Guesting on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Jennifer Beals reflects on the lasting impact “The L Word” has had on the LGBTQ+ community, and gives fans a behind-the-scenes look of the show they’ve never seen before in her new book “The L Word: A Photographic Journal.” Jennifer also bonds with Kelly over their love of Aerosmith, and addresses her viral wink.
In this web exclusive, “Frasier” star David Hyde Pierce, now appearing on Broadway in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” talks with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Martha Teichner about playing physical comedy; tweaking Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” for today’s audience; his early television roles that led to the part of Dr. Niles Crane on “Frasier”; and his relationship with his husband, Brian.
Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek chats with two-time RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE winner Jinkx Monsoon about making her Broadway debut as Ruth in PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL, a reimagining of Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE.
I love this! In recognition of her dazzling contributions to entertainment, RuPaul’s Drag Race is proud to present the Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award to the one and only Liza Minnelli.
George Clooney (‘Good Night, and Good Luck’) and Patti LuPone (‘The Roommate’) discuss LuPone working with Mia Farrow, the challenges of readapting ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ for the stage, and Clooney’s willingness to take the heat for criticizingTrump and Musk.
The force of nature that is Broadway legend Patti LuPone is still going strong as she reaches her 76th birthday today.
LuPone is on a real career high with a role in the hot TV series Agatha All Along and a hugely successful Broadway run in The Roommate opposite her close friend Mia Farrow.
When the pandemic hit more than five years ago, Patti was about to open on Broadway in Company in a role for which she had won the Olivier Award in the London production. I’m so glad the Broadway show came together and won her a third Tony Award!
So many highs in career so far starting with originating the role of Evita on Broadway (Tony win), of Fantine in Les Miserables (Olivier Award win) and of Normal Desmond in Sunset Boulevard – the latter two on London’s West End.
Then there were the revivals she triumphed in – Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes (Tony nod), Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Tony nod) and Mama Rose in Gypsy (Tony win).
Miss LuPone also took over for Zoe Caldwell in the original Broadway production of Master Class and also took the show to London. That happened to be the first Broadway show I’d ever seen during my first visit to NYC in 1996 and Miss LuPone was sensational.
She has an ego to match the talent which makes me love her all the more. I read her autobiography and it is a doozy – she does not pull punches.