Patti LuPone, famously fired by Andrew Lloyd Webber from her role as Norma Desmond in the 1993 London production Sunset Blvdis putting aside old grudges — somehow, someway — and planning to see the new Broadway production directed by Jamie Lloyd on Wednesday.

In a deliciously apt LuPone appearance on ABC The view Today the former Evita was in top form and also offered a “compliment” to the hot new Broadway sunset Revival with Nicole Scherzinger as Norma.

First, a little background. In 1993, LuPone created the role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s original London production Sunset BlvdDirected by: Trevor Nunn. The project was a renewed collaboration between LuPone and Lloyd Webber after their huge success with Evitabut history did not repeat itself: LuPone was abruptly fired by the composer, who then hired Glenn Close to open the show in Los Angeles and eventually on Broadway.

LuPone was hired to open both the LA and Broadway productions, and the money she received from the deal went to charity: she has since referred to the swimming pool at her Connecticut estate as “Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool.”

To The view today, with LuPone promoting both Disney+s Agatha all the time and her Broadway two-hander with Mia Farrow The roommatethe Broadway icon was asked if she had seen the new, largely reimagined – and very well-reviewed – Broadway production of Sunset Blvd.

“I can’t wait to see it!” She buckled down and added that she should see the show next Wednesday.

“I’m very excited to see what Jamie Lloyd has done with it,” she said, then added that she wished talented directors like Lloyd would “focus on original material and support new playwrights and new composers and lyricists, rather than things which we don’t do.” I saw.”

“But I’m excited to see it,” she said, adding, “It’s a ponderous musical” – here she intoned the word cumbersome as if it was wearing one Agatha all the time Curse. “It’s always been that way, so I’m excited to see what he’ll do to make it less so cumbersome.”

With that, she burst into her trademark laugh, but fell silent when co-host Joy Behar mentioned the good reviews of the new production.

“Well, we’ll see,” LuPone said. “There’s no arguing about taste.”