Patti LuPone Will Perform The Lady With the Torch to Benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Patti LuPone, who is currently starring in the hit Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, will offer a one-night only benefit performance of her critically acclaimed concert The Lady With The Torch at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater on Monday, May 22 at 8pm. The event will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and will celebrate the release of LuPone’s new CD with the same title, available from Ghostlight Records as of April 25.

Conceived and directed by Scott Wittman, with orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick and musical direction by Chris Fenwick, The Lady With the Torch will feature LuPone and a 10-piece orchestra performing a collection of torch songs by such composers and lyricists as Arthur Schwartz, Jule Styne, Billy Barnes, Stan Kenton and June Christie, Johnny Mercer, George and Ira Gershwin, Willie Nelson, and Cole Porter. The concert will be dedicated to the memory of Dick Gallagher, LuPone’s longtime musical director.

LuPone premiered The Lady With the Torch last year in a concert at Carnegie Hall, following engagements in New York at Feinstein’s at the Regency in New York, the Cinegrill in Los Angeles, and the Plush Room in San Francisco. A Tony Award winner for her performance as Eva Peron in Evita, LuPone has also starred in Passion for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series, Candide with the New York Philharmonic, Can Can in the Encores! series at City Center, and several Stephen Sondheim shows at the Ravinia Festival. Her Broadway credits include Noises Off, The Old Neighborhood, and Master Class; she previously appeared at the Vivian Beaumont Theater as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes and, more recently, in her Matters of the Heart show. Last year, LuPone sang the title role in Marc Blitzstein’s opera Regina at the Kennedy Center. Next year, she will make her debut with the Los Angeles Opera in a new production of Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny.

Tickets for The Lady With the Torch range in price from $50 to $500. They are available by calling Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at 212-840-0770 or online at www.BroadwayCares.org.