Patti Prepares Her Return

On the heels of the announcements earlier this week from more than a dozen Broadway productions about their planned reopening dates, after remaining dark for more than a year due to the pandemic, Patti LuPone has released her own video message. “If there’s an upside to having to be away from my spiritual home for so long,” she said, “it was that it made me realize just how much theater means to me.” The two-time Tony winner, who was a mere ten days away from the opening night of the gender-swapped revival of Company when Broadway shuttered, then shared her excitement by belting out a few bars of Gypsy’s “Broadway.” The producers of Company have announced that they plan to resume performances on December 20 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, with their new opening night set for January 9.