Patti LuPone
Also Known As: پتی لوپون
Biography: Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer, who is best known for her work in stage musicals. She has won two Grammy Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Olivier Awards. She is also a 2006 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee. On television, LuPone played Lady Bird Johnson in the 1987 TV movie, LBJ: The Early Years, starred in the drama series Life Goes On (1989–1993) and received Emmy Award nominations for the TV movie The Song Spinner (1995) and her guest role in the sitcom Frasier (1998). In the 1990s she had a recurring role as defense attorney Ruth Miller on Law & Order. She also had recurring roles in two Ryan Murphy FX series, the thriller American Horror Story: Coven (2013–2014) and the drama Pose (2019), as well as on Murphy's Hollywood on Netflix. She guest starred in Penny Dreadful (2014–2016) before returning in a lead role. She voices the character Yellow Diamond in the animated series Steven Universe (2013–2019) and its epilogue series Steven Universe Future (2019–2020). She also appeared on The CW comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as Rabbi Shari (2017). LuPone appeared in the Oscar-winning films Witness (1985) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and also was featured in State and Main (2000), Parker (2013), and The Comedian (2016). LuPone has a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and she is famous for her strong/high "Broadway" belt singing voice. In a 2008 interview, she maintained that she was "an actor who sings", and thankful she "had a voice"
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Northport, Long Island, New York, USA
Birthday: April 21, 1949
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Gender: Female
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Driving Miss Daisy
Overview: The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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Heist
Overview: Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore and his partner, Bobby Blane, and their utility man, Pinky Pincus, find themselves broke, betrayed, and blackmailed. Moore is forced to commit his crew to do one last big job.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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1941
Overview: In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Genres: Comedy War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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State and Main
Overview: A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Overview: The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musical moments from the Tonys features another dazzling array of stars and performances. Hosts Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jerry Orbach introduce these one-of-a-kind performances and share their personal Broadway and Tony memories.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-26
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Wise Guys
Overview: Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-17
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Witness
Overview: A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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City by the Sea
Overview: Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years
Overview: Archival footage provides a glimpse into the life of Cameron Mackintosh; the storied producer famous for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-27
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The Water Engine
Overview: In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil companies don't want the competition. Now he has to try and keep them from getting his idea, and somehow get it published.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-24
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On Broadway
Overview: An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
Overview: In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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Just Looking
Overview: It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other people do it. Easier said than done. Caught in the act of spying, his mother and stepfather ship him off to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in "the country" -- Queens. His plan looks like a bust and his summer seems destined for boredom, until he meets a whole new group of friends -- young teens who have a "sex club."
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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Union Square
Overview: Jenny has rejected her tumultuous family and cut off communication, seeking a more ordered life far from her roots in the Bronx. And she's almost ready to commit to her longtime fiancé when her sister Lucy — the personification of all that Jenny has been trying to flee — surprises her at a critical time. Lucy and Jenny's combustible reunion brings both of them to unforeseen places, shattering and reconstructing the worlds they have both carefully constructed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-07
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Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
Overview: Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master composer and lyricist's 80th birthday, many of musical theater's brightest stars gathered in March of 2010 to perform more than two dozen sensational numbers from Sondheim's illustrious career, and several of these enduring songs are performed by the original Broadway cast members. David Hyde Pierce hosts this magical event with Stephen Sondheim's longtime collaborator Paul Gemignani conducting the New York Philharmonic. Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 38, episode 2).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Fighting Back
Overview: An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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The 24 Hour Woman
Overview: Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-29
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Company
Overview: Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-15
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Overview: This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre writer for over 40 years, Stephen Sondheim has created the scores for hits such as Passion, Assassins, Bounce, Into The Woods, Sunday In The Park With George, Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeney Todd and Pacific Overtures. Featuring: Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Glenn Close and many more.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-10
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Monday Night Mayhem
Overview: The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith, Keith Jackson, and the combative Howard Cosell as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-14
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
Overview: Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a reimagined gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone and members of the original 1970 cast, the broadcast tells the story of the show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as both Broadway and New York City emerge from one of the greatest crises in contemporary history.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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The School for Good and Evil
Overview: Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-19
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Pose-a-Thon for Pride
Overview: Bringing together the voices of "Pose" for stories, songs, and support of LGBTQ education, social change for sexual and gender minority people of color, and transgender equality through legal services and policy efforts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-26
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The Time of Your Life
Overview: William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young prostitute named Kitty. Saroyan himself is heard reciting the play's prologue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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LBJ: The Early Years
Overview: LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1973. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of Johnson.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-01
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Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
Overview: The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-25
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The Victim
Overview: She's the bar floozy, he's the stranger. She tries to pick him up but for some reason, he's not game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Parker
Overview: A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-23
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The Song Spinner
Overview: In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its "Hush Law" prohibits noise of any kind, including music. Enter the exiled gypsy Zantalalia (Patti LuPone), who returns determined to pass her singing secrets on to ten-year-old Aurora (Meredith Henderson), an action that will get the girl in trouble with Captain Nizzle of the dreaded Noise Police. John Neville completes the cast of this colorful family fantasy.
Genres: Music Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-19
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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Overview: - Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash is king, poverty is punishable by death, and anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Director John Doyle melds his Tony Award winning talent with the lyrics of influential playwright Bertolt Brecht and an incomparable score by Kurt Weill. The brilliant cast is led by superstars Audra McDonald, as the tart-with-a-heart `Jenny' and Patti LuPone, who portrays the town's feisty madam. Audra McDonald · Patti LuPone · Anthony Dean Griffey Robert Wörle · John Easterlin · Mel Ulrich Directed for Stage by John Doyle Chorus and Orchestra of the Los Angeles Opera James Conlon, conductor
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-18
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Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family
Overview: Brett Gelman throws his parents a dinner and show for their 40th anniversary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-13
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Broadway: The Next Generation
Overview: A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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Patti LuPone: Songs From a Hat
Overview: Does anyone still wear a hat? Yes: three-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone. And her hat is filled with songs, both new and old. See Patti up close and unscripted as she sings and tells stories from her illustrious career—whatever she pulls from the hat. Filmed live at 54 Below on New Year's Day 2023.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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Portraits in Dramatic Time
Overview: A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists and actors of all genres and nationalities both well-known and under-recognized.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-05
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Passion
Overview: Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore. Central themes include love, sex, obsession, illness, passion, beauty, power and manipulation. Set in 19th century Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel's homely, ailing cousin.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-31
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An Evening with Patti LuPone
Overview: Taped in January 1997 at the McCallum Theatre in the Palm Desert Resort hotel in Palm Springs, CA., includes sensational renditions of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," "Anything Goes," "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "As If We Never Said Goodbye," "Sleepy Man," "I Dreamed A Dream," "Heat Wave," and more.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-20
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Family Prayers
Overview: This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-19
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Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid
Overview: A documentary about the making of Ari Aster's Kafkaesque epic Beau is Afraid.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-22
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The Comedian
Overview: An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-09
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The Cradle Will Rock
Overview: A filmed version of the 1985 revival of the Marc Blitzstein musical. This revival was filmed at the Old Vic, with former members of The Acting Company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Candide
Overview: Leonard Bernstein's brilliant comic operetta comes to dazzling new life under the guidance of director Lonny Price (A Class Act). Based on the classic Voltaire tale of an innocent young man's journey through a life filled with colorful characters and unexpected life lessons, this tune-filled frolic features Tony Award-winners Patti LuPone and Kristin Chenoweth heading a dazzling cast with Paul Groves, Stanford Olsen, Sir Thomas Allen and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. The impeccable score (with lyrics by luminaries including Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Wilbur and John La Touche) includes a host of delightful songs such as "Life Is Happiness Indeed," "It Must Be So," "You Were Dead, You Know" and "Make Our Garden Grow." Now enjoy this all-new production of a musical comedy favorite with Broadway's top stars!
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-12
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Summer of Sam
Overview: During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-28
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Cliffs of Freedom
Overview: The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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Broadway's Lost Treasures
Overview: The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-10
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Her Last Chance
Overview: Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-08
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Steven Universe: The Movie
Overview: Two years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy the Earth.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-07
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Last Christmas
Overview: Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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Audra McDonald and Friends: Build a Bridge
Overview: Audra McDonald, already renowned for her virtuosity in classical and Broadway song, brings her talents to new genres by interpreting works of pop and contemporary composers, including pieces from her album Build a Bridge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-12
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Cold Blooded
Overview: A serial murderer of teenage girls is loose, and working the case are a possibly corrupt detective Lou Miles a probably corrupt chief inspector Brodsky and his "favorite snitch." Dark personal histories and current politics mix to get the ambitious DA and her investigator involved.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-17
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Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta
Overview: A ghost appears from a laundromat dryer seeking vengeance against her husband for leaving her for another woman.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
Overview: To celebrate the 90th birthday of Broadway songwriting great Stephen Sondheim, an A-list group of performers sing songs of inspiration from his songbook in a concert event filmed in their homes. Hosted and co-produced by Raúl Esparza, the acclaimed one-night-only event was created as a benefit for ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty).
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-26
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Patti LuPone: Live From the West Side
Overview: This concert features two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios at New World Stages, the show features a mix of Broadway show tunes and personal stories from the Patti's life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-24
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Overview: An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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Beau Is Afraid
Overview: Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-14
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along
Overview: Join Kathryn Hahn, Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, and more as they invite viewers behind-the-scenes of Agatha All Along.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-13
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Show of Titles
Overview: An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.
Genres: Music Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-13
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