A Tony Award winner for her work in Evita , Patti LuPone also earned an Olivier Award for her performances in the West End productions of Les Misйrables and The Cradle Will Rock . Her other theatrical credits include Sunset Boulevard, Anything Goes, Oliver!, Working, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class and Pal Joey . LuPone also headlined two solo Broadway concerts, Patti LuPone On Broadway and Matters of the Heart , and received glowing notices for her performance as Mrs.

Lovett in the Lincoln Center concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and a Tony nomination for her performance in the recent revival of that Sondheim work. She was seen in the Kennedy Center’s staging of Marc Blitzstein’s Regina and recently joined Audra McDonald for Los Angeles Opera’s production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny .

LuPone was most recently on the New York stage in City Center’s production of Gypsy — a turn that is said to be aiming for Broadway.