"I'm haunting yooouuu..."

October 31, 2019 12:38 PM

When Patti Lupone Haunted A Laundromat: "It was the pilot for a series called 'Hip Pocket Musicals,' which was pitched to PBS but never aired. Each episode would have been a different half-hour mini-musical with the same group of actors. The first one was called 'Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta,' and it starred LuPone as a vengeful ghost who haunts a laundromat." Direct link to the full video. The full "Love Cycle"script (pdf) via writer-producer David Misch's website, and a 2014 interview with "Love Cycle" creator Bill Burnett. David Misch previously.
posted by mandolin conspiracy (3 comments total)

Patti Lupone! She went to my high school and had the same choir director as I did. In my parents' piano bench still resides a set of sheet music with her signature in pencil. She's awesome.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:07 PM on October 31, 2019 [3 favorites]

*adjusts tie*

I'm married to a massive Patti Lupone fanboy (I mean, I think she's swell -- don't get me wrong) so I'm rather chuffed that he was totally unaware of "Love Cycle."

It's pretty amazing.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:09 PM on October 31, 2019

Thank you so much for this. Patti LuPone continues to rise in my esteem with every campy new thing I find her in.
posted by ikahime at 8:02 AM on November 1, 2019