Theatre News and Reviews

When Patti LuPone launches into Stephen Sondheim’s “Being Alive,” you know you’re in for a grand ride.

How many singers can perfect this ecstatic, swooping and soaring ode from the musical “Company” with the authority of Ms. LuPone? And with her ineffable blend of vocal plangency and dramatic force?

In her one-woman show “Matters of the Heart” at the Paramount Theatre, LuPone lets us know (in her first theatrical run here) that she’s still a card-carrying member of that endangered class of bona fide, Broadway-bred showstoppers.

Now in her mid-50s, LuPone is still a petite powerhouse who can glam it up in a black evening dress — and sass it up with bawdy humor. And she retains full command of an elastic mezzo-soprano that can blast a big showtune out of the park, or sweetly murmur a lullaby.

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