Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in association with Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University is bringing leading Broadway star and multiple Tony and Grammy® Award-winner Patti LuPone and her critically acclaimed concert Don’t Monkey with Broadway to the Conservatorium Theatre on Wednesday 27 June 2018.

LuPone will explore, through indelible interpretations of classic Broadway show tunes by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Stephen Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, how her life-long love affair with Broadway began and her concern for what Manhattan’s Theatre District – the Great White Way – is becoming today.

The American Theatre Hall of Famer most recently starred on Broadway as cosmetics pioneer Helena Rubinstein in the musical War Paint and will be returning to London’s West End this year in Marianne Elliot’s new production of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Company.

LuPone is a two-time Tony Award winner for her role as Madame Rose in the most recent Broadway revival of the musical Gypsy and for her now legendary performance in the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita. She reprised her performance for local audiences during Evita’s original Australian run in the early ’80s.  

Since then, LuPone has graced stages and screens around the world with credits covering film, TV, recordings and theatre. In 2010, she released her autobiography, Patti LuPone: A Memoir which became a New York Times bestseller.