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Patti LuPone to Perform Benefit Concert in Chicago

Patti LuPone
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Patti LuPone
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will give a benefit concert for the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago at 7:30pm on Tuesday, November 14 at Symphony Center (220 South Michigan Avenue). She will perform her critically acclaimed show Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

LuPone’s other upcoming appearances include Audra McDonald’s Build a Bridge concert on October 11-12 at Jazz at Lincoln Center; The Acting Company’s Masquerade benefit in New York on October 23; the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s To Hell and Back in northern California, November 2-5; and two performances of her popular show The Lady With the Torch at the Robinson Theatre in Waltham, Massachusetts, November 18-19.

In addition, LuPone will be inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in January, along with actors George Hearn and Elizabeth Wilson, playwright Brian Friel, and designers Willa Kim and Eugene Lee. Playwrights Wendy Wasserstein and August Wilson will also be inducted posthumously.

Tickets to the JCC benefit concert range in price from $55 to $350 and can be ordered by calling 312-357-4700. For more information on other events, visit www.pattilupone.net.