Tuneful And Filthy with Patti LuPone & Nathan Lane

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome back to the A24 podcast. Friends and theater legends, Patti LaPone and Nathan
0:10.9	Lane met over 40 years ago while acting off Broadway, and their careers converged once
0:15.5	again this past year when they both starred in Ari Astor's Bo is afraid. For today's
0:20.2	episode, we got Patti and Nathan together to talk about the state of showbiz, being players
0:24.6	in the A24 repertoire, and Nathan's latest role in Dix the Musical. We hope you enjoy
0:30.2	the conversation. Catch Nathan and Dix when it opens nationwide this weekend.
0:36.1	Hi everyone, this is Nathan Lane. And I'm Patti LaPone. And we're just going to sit
0:42.5	around for an hour in bitch. All for A24. A24. Our new home, British
0:49.1	gotta go. Nathan, we met doing that Albert Inorado play. I can't remember the name of it
0:54.8	in 1984 at the public theater. What was it? Something coming of age in Soho?
1:00.5	I don't know. That was the name of coming of age in Soho. And it was about four hours.
1:05.8	I do remember that we would go back to my apartment and have parties.
1:10.2	Well, we did the reading. We did go back to your, you had a townhouse, right?
1:17.1	Duplex on 20th Street. Okay. Well, we went back there, you and I, and there was a younger actor,
1:24.7	Matt, I've seen him, but he was, he was attractive. And then there was some herbal inspiration.
1:31.0	And then I realized, maybe it was time for me to go. That's what I recall. The reading seemed
1:36.2	to take up most of our adult lives. It just, it was endless. So when out of there,
1:41.8	it was like we had escaped something. And I think everyone was ready to let loose a bit.
1:47.3	Who directed it? Who directed the reading? That's a good question. It wasn't, was it Peter
1:53.2	Mark Schifter? Remember him? Did he do it? Because he worked with Albert often. He directed
1:59.0	Janlini, didn't he? But I don't think it could have been because he was in my first class
2:04.9	with the act Juliard. Peter Schifter. And Peter, he was not a good actor at all. And I don't think
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