Patti LuPone and Kevin Kline in The Robber Bridegroom for The Acting Company (1976)
(they recreated the pose in November, 2011 at a benefit for Sonnet Repertory Theatre)
The Patti/Kevin Kline/Peter Weller Love Triangle: Fellow Juilliard student Kevin Kline was LuPone’s “first great love,” and the pair had a seven-year on-off relationship, including four years of touring the country by bus with The Acting Company. In 1977, she developed romantic feelings for a pre-Robocop Peter Weller when they co-starred in the Chicago premiere of The Woods, a David Mamet play about an intense relationship. The entire experience, including living in a freezing-cold, squalid hotel, left LuPone miserable and depressed. At the closing night party, “in a drunken stupor, I declared my love for Peter to Peter with Kevin standing right next to me.” She and Kline patched things up “until he slept with a chorus girl in Boston while he was doing On the Twentieth Century.”
