2023-10-18
39 分钟Topics covered include: Nathan and Patti acting together off-Broadway in the mid-80s, herbal inspiration, learning on the job, sense memory, the brutality of Julliard, putting in the work, the dumbing down of America, witty alcoholics, the Alogonquin Round Table, Nathan falling in love with Dicks: The Musical, becoming A24 repertoire players, feeding ham to puppets, adoring Megan Thee Stallion, Patti’s deep hatred of ABBA, Broadway as a shopping mall, art as an essential human right, getting dual-citizenship ‘just in case,’ and Patti’s bootlegger grandmother.
Hey, and welcome Back to the A24 podcast.
Friends and theater legends Patti LuPone and Nathan Lane met over 40 years ago while acting off Broadway.
And their careers converged once again this past year when they both starred in Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid.
For today's episode, we got Patti and Nathan together to talk about the state of showbiz, being players in the A24 repertoire, and Nathan's latest role in Dick's the Musical.
We hope you enjoy the conversation.
Catch Nathan and Dix when it opens nationwide this weekend.
Hi, everyone, this is Nathan Lane and I'm Patti LuPone.
And we're just gonna sit around for an hour and bitch.
All for a 24.
A 24.
Our new home.
Ready, steady, go.
Nathan.
We met doing that Albert Inarado play, I can't remember the name of it, in 1984 at the Public Theater.
What was it?
Something coming of age in soho.
I don't know.
That was the name of it coming of Agent Keeping Soho.
And it was about four hours.
I do remember that we would go back to my apartment and have parties.