Patti LuPone, Broadway
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Patti LuPone has apologized for her incendiary remarks about fellow Broadway stars Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis. LuPone issued a lengthy apology on May 31, one day after more than 500 members of the Broadway community signed an open letter reprimanding her.
Hundreds of Broadway performers are speaking out against three-time Tony Awards winner Patti LuPone over what they say is a pattern of "inappropriate and unacceptable public comments."
Yet in the profile, LuPone levels her gaze on a new subject: former friend (and six-time Tony Award winner) Audra McDonald. The pair apparently fell out years ago, and when asked for her opinion on McDonald’s Gypsy revival, LuPone stared “in silence for 15 seconds,” looked out the window, and said: “What a beautiful day.”
Broadway veteran Patti LuPone lashed out at President Donald Trump for his overhaul of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and called for the building to
In a new interview with The New Yorker, LuPone, 76, described a “horrific” attack on the chickens she and her husband, Matthew Johnston, had on their Connecticut property. The couple had a flock of the birds, named Marilyn, Rita, Eartha, Foghorn Leghorn and the Fabulous Miller Sisters, until all but three were killed by raccoons.
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I was his girlfriend when he wanted me to be his girlfriend, but, if there was somebody else, he would break up with me,” she said.