Patti LuPone has created some of the most iconic roles in musical theatre, and those she hasn’t originated, she’s made her own. Ahead of an Australian tour of her new show A Life in Notes, beginning at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the three-time Tony Award winner talks to Jansson J. Antmann about her extraordinary career as the undisputed queen of Broadway.

Patti LuPone. Photo © Douglas Friedman

Patti LuPone is all smiles. Her latest show, A Life in Notes, has opened to rave reviews at Carnegie Hall, and rumours have begun circulating about an imminent return to Broadway with Mia Farrow in Jen Silverman’s play The Roommate. 

“I know! Somebody leaked it,” she says with a laugh. “I swear I didn’t do it.” 

I congratulate her on the...