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CONCERT CODA

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performed Rodgers' The King and I Overture, Victory at Sea Symphonic Suite, South Pacific Overture and Flower Drum Song and Sondheim/Sebesky's Send in the Clowns.

Patti LuPone performed hits from her new album, Far Away Places, including “Gypsy in My Soul,” “Nightlife,” “Bilbao,” “Far Away Places,” “Nagasaki,” “Come to the Supermarket in Old Peking,” “I Wanna Be Around,” “What Good Would the Moon Be?,” “Ah, the Sea is Blue,” “I Cover the Waterfront,” “Pirate Jenny,” “By The Sea,” “I Regret Everything,” “Hymn to Love,” “I Love Paris,” “Travelin’ Light,” “That’s Life,” “Istanbul,” “Invisible” and “September Song.”

PRESS REVIEWS AND FEATURES

“This weekend, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra audiences have the benefit of hearing the orchestral premiere of her latest project, ‘Far Away Places,’ which she debuted in a cabaret version last June at 54 Below in New York.”
Review: The Star-Ledger—June 1

Musician INSIGHT

Michael Stewart, viola

On a scale of one to 10, these concerts with Patti LuPone are a 50. [LuPone] has a phenomenal voice, and she can do whatever she wants with it—not just in terms of register but in inflection, in character ... it’s like nothing I've ever heard. She's a consummate pro, and yet she’s earthy and funny and uninhibited.

The arrangements are terrific, the orchestra is really responding to her, and she’s loving it herself. There’s in-character drama in every piece. It's going to be quite a performance—she’ll [move] the audience like she does for the orchestra. This is one of the real high points of the decade [for the NJSO], I think.