Patti LuPone Screams At Audience Member “GET THE FUCK OUT” During Company Performance.

This bitch needs to get a new gimmick. We get it, Patti. You hate cell phones. You've had a dozen of these screaming matches, and it's the only thing that gets you in the news anymore.

At least Zsa Zsa had the smarts to only slap ONE cop!

She is truly cuntastic

I love Patti, but she’s becoming a nasty shrew.

Apparently it was at a talkback, not during the actual performance.

It wasn't mid-performance, it was during a talkback, which I think is totally fair. Going to a LuPone show and wearing your mask pulled down with house lights up? You're asking for it.

100% valid.

Her blood pressure must be thru the roof.

Anti-masker got PATTISLAPPED!

Don't forget what she did over Easter!

Look, she's right. If the theatre requires you to wear a mask, you need to wear a mask properly.

But, Patti LuPone is wrong. To berate someone like that publicly demonstrates highhandedness, rudeness, and an arrogance that is unnecessary.

Was it her place to enforce the mask requirement?

If she wanted to address the theatre patron, she should have asked her politely to wear the mask correctly and then calmly explain why the woman put others at risk. If the woman continued to resist, the management of the theatre should have stepped in.

The way LuPone handled it was childish....like a spoiled brat.

The “here we go again” look from Katrina Lenk is great.

[quote]If she wanted to address the theatre patron, she should have asked her politely to wear the mask correctly and then calmly explain why the woman put others at risk.

Bull-fucking-shit. Anti-maskers don’t respond to politeness. They simply think they are above the rules and they have no problem whatsoever putting other people’s health at risk. I wish more people were like Patti.

Bitch is gonna stroke out one of these days.

[quote]If she wanted to address the theatre patron, she should have asked her politely to wear the mask correctly

She did. People who were there said Patti gestured at the woman a few times about her mask, and then did ask her politely, and the woman was rude back at Patti, leading to what you see. There's a reason that person started filming, this didn't just come out of nowhere.

Another brilliant zinger!

No one notices that Patti herself is NOT WEARING A MASK???

Love that LuPone has no fucks to give anymore.

Love that she uses her diva evil powers for good - at least sometimes.

I love Patti LaBelle. How dare someone disrespect the Queen of Soul.

Was the audience member Sir ALW?

Look at all the anti-maskers criticizing Patti LaPone in this thread.

Nah R22. Some of us just expect people to act civilized and not lose their shit in public.

Is this a tough on crime stance to make sure she gets that next Tony?

[quote]Addison Clover, the Tony-award winning performer can be heard berating a guest who reportedly had an issue with the theatre's mask policy.

[quote]"Put your mask over your nose, that's why you're in the theater," the 73-year-old can be heard saying from the stage in the footage.

[quote]"That is the rule. If you don't want to follow the rule, get the f*** out!" she said to cheers. "Who do you think you are? That you do not respect the people that are sitting around you."

[quote]The patron in question fired back at LuPone and said she pays the performer's salary which prompted her to quip: "Bulls***t. Chris Harper pays my salary."

She was in the right here. Sorry to everyone who wants to say she didn't take the right tone, but at this late date, there's no reason to be polite to people who won't wear masks when they're required to.

If the audience member didn't want to wear a mask, they shouldn't have gone.

Patty isn't wearing a mask, because she was tested when she arrived at the theater (which happens every day for the cast)

Did she get the fuck out?

Patti LuPone, taking a bite out of crime.

R18 is an Insurrectionist Whore.

So, R26? She's still a hypocrite.

The civility police are all closet fascists.

Team Patty.

Can you imagine what it was like for her kid growing up? Being terrified to bring home a bad grade or leaving a mess when Mom was in one of her moods.

The actress hasn’t learned the lines you’d like to hear, she won’t join your clubs, she won’t dance in your halls.

I like how Patty is the Broadway Hallmonitor.

Team Patty.

I don’t wear a mask anymore unless it’s required. Yet…

It IS required in the theater. It’s an agreement before you step in the door. If the performers get sick, the show could close. The performers all know their vaccination status, and they don’t wear masks during the performance; wearing a mask during a talkback would be inconsistent.

Patti is in her mid-seventies more vulnerable to COVID,and still goes to work every day. People are coming to the show largely to see her in it.

Her outburst is understandable. Not professional, but she’s a diva to the core. I kind of loved this.

The bigger crime is the misspelling of Patti’s name by R22. Shame.

Once a cunt, always a cunt. Where’s your mask you dizzy bitch???? Patti’s a miserable old cunt.

We will have strict protocols on the set of my new film Sunset Boulevard: The Musical. I must protect my golden voice at all costs so cannot run around screaming, unlike some people.

Are you incapable of reading, R37? R35 just explained why Patti wasn’t wearing a mask.

Is your English-to-Russian translation app not working today?

Morons are really showing their colors when they ask why performers aren't masked. God you people are fucking stupid.

How does the bitch Patti know that the unmasked person didn’t take a covid test also?

Absurd. She's a bitch. This Covid insanity must end.

It doesn't matter if they did, r41. The theater requires them to wear a mask.

I love it. Fuck the maskless in a theatre. If i was in her pumps I would do the same.

R30 must like blue.

You can really see the trolls in a thread like this.

I'm on her side, I agree with her point of view, but I do find her unhinged freakouts aren't funny. She could accomplish as much with her stature and with calm.

The idiot trolls in this thread are amusing from a distance. I'm glad I don't have to deal with them in person.

Anyone seeing a show in a theatre in NYC right now is required to wear a mask. There are emails about this requirement that arrive before the show, constant reminders before the show and during intermission at the actual show, and the ushers are monitoring everything diligently once everyone arrives. So this audience member not wearing a mask and telling Patti she pays her salary is just being a purposeful cunt. And no, of course Patti is not wearing a mask. The performers don't. That's the whole point, and they have to get tested constantly to keep everyone safe. So when Patti loses her temper, it's more than justified. ENOUGH.

Broadway wants to keep its doors open. Masks are the way to do that. It's all rather simple, but clearly we are living, sadly, in a world of simpletons.

Good for her. If people can't behave correctly, they should be called out and thrown out, regardless of the situation. I can't fucking stand people who aren't able, or don't think they have to, follow the rules. Call a cunt a cunt, and that audience member was a cunt to the bone.

Yes, you should wear a mask in an indoor theater, for your own health and safety, and for the respect of the performers and workers.

That said, Patti is a straight up CUNT. I would totally do it just to troll her and see her explode. Then give her a taste of her own bitter bitch medicine before I get thrown out. Or maybe I would just start subtly playing Madonna's version of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from my phone just to see her blood boil while she freaks out wondering where it's coming from.

What is a talkback? I’m recording it is the speaker that the producer’s voice comes out of. What is a talkback?

We should start a thread "Let's be all the ways you can make Patti LuPone lose her shit live on stage."

I'm playing Glenn Close's With one Look on my iPhone, loud enough she can hear it.

Good for Patti. That anti masker should have been arrested for attempted murder.

R41, she couldn't know that, there's no way to know that, which makes your entire question, like you yourself, fucking stupid beyond belief.

This is a great thread to learn which people to block.

Like many others, I find her churlish tone beyond the pale. Even though she has a good point, it got lost in her delivery. Isn't this acting 101?

R54 is too dumb to get R41's point. Why are we not surprised? Broadway diva worshippers are the worst. Even worse than soap fans.

R57 = Eva Braun

WELL SOME PEOPLE AIN'T ME!

Well, R12, LuPone's reaction is no better than the woman's refusal to wear the mask properly. A better option for LuPone would have been for her and the assembled cast members to stop speaking or performing until the management took care of the issue by giving the woman the option to adjust the mask or leave the theatre.

It was the theatre's management who should have handled this, not LuPone.

She berated the woman in public, subjected her to public ridicule, and perhaps worse. The woman can turn around and sue the theatre for harassment.

Putty LaPoone

fuck LuPone.

Patti butchers " Meadowlark." A beautiful, simple song is turned into a manic demonstration of vocal and self-indulgent masturbation.

[QUOTE] The woman can turn around and sue the theatre for harassment.

No, she actually cannot. Did you just decide to pull this out of your prolapsed asshole?

How " Meadowlark" should be sung. Just goes to show that Patti knows about uncontrolled histrionics.

"Pay your salary" - ugh. First, tickets in that situation aren't paying salaries. Second, even if they were, that's not why you buy them. It's a bargained for exchange - you pay money for a ticket in exchange for being able to watch the performance; you're paying for the privilege of watching. That's it. You're not paying to tell the performers what they should and shouldn't be doing; how the theater should be handling Covid, etc.

R60, in the state of New York harassment is legally defined as:

[quote] Any physical injury or course of conduct intended to annoy another person

[quote] Any following of a person in a public place is likely to cause harassment

[quote] Any actions were taken by a person to alarm another person without serving a legitimate purpose

She met none of these legal definitions with her philippic, no matter how distasteful you found it.

You don’t know anything about the law and shouldn’t comment regarding topics which you don’t understand.

OK, but is Callaway any good at going banshee on the audience? Because if she reigns, at some point, she's gonna have to.

Oooooh, battle of the old dolls! Thank you, Patti LuPone!

R60 is an idiot and has no clue what IT is talking about.

[quote]She berated the woman in public

When you act like an ass in public, you take the risk of people calling you out.

She's right.

The idiocy of the MAGA bullies, lunatics and criminals need to be called out and removed.

Why are my posts disappearing from every thread. Is DL doing that to non paying members now? I'm not on any banned list or anything, so why? Of course this too will be gone before anyone has a chance to see and maybe let me know

I’d like to propose a toast…

Here’s to the former star of Life Goes On who cunts.

Help! 911! I've been harassed by Patti LuPone!

I can see you, R73.

The New York Times should do a weekly column: Have you been harassed by Patti LuPone? We can help.

She's a nasty woman but she does well with the loser gossip bloggers who think they are above everything, when they are just miserable fat fucks who can't get out of their own way.

R73 maybe you put yourself on ignore.

Help! 911! I've been harassed by Patti LaBelle!

Help! 911! I've been harassed by the ghost of Ida Lupino!

[quote] or course of conduct intended to annoy another person

[quote] Any actions were taken by a person to alarm another person without serving a legitimate purpose

R57, any lawyer could make an argument that LuPone was doing just that.

I'm a very nasty women and I HAVEN'T got all day.

R82, since there is audio evidence of her speaking more calmly, and motioning for the woman to mask properly, it would be successfully argued that Patti’s INTENT was not to annoy. Whether the woman was annoyed is immaterial. The “intended” language in the statute is key in the eyes of the law.

Again, the “legitimate purpose” language is key to the statute. Patti had a obviously observable legitimate purpose, i.e. enforcing the rules not only of the theater but the City of New York.

Again, you don’t understand the law and aren’t qualified to argue the nuisances of same.

But your honor, she's a cunt!

BonniePrinceCharlie is about to call the NYPD and file a report against Patti.

[quote]The woman can turn around and sue the theatre for harassment.

Where did you get your law degree? From the back of a cereal box?

I love the civility trolls on this thread. They're all over the abortion threads too.

"Mass death and people stripped of rights is one thing, but to be RUDE!!!"

All the stories of her bitching people out makes me wonder why she’s been banished from Hollywood for over 30 years.

Slap her, Wilona!

Assertive communication is more effective than aggressive communication. There were so many ways that this could have been handled and Queen Patti chose the one that gave her the dopamine rush and made a room full of people uncomfortable. Do you think people left talking about "Company" or instead talking about how Patti made a scene during the Q&A?

"Hey before I answer this question, I just want to remind everybody in the audience that we're still asking you all to wear masks. I know it can be a real bitch (like me!) but we're trying to keep this show running and we need your help to do that. We get tested every 30 minutes up here so that's why we're not in masks. Thanks so much." If people don't comply, then take it up a notch or address the person directly or ask security to offer the person a mask.

People are more likely to comply when they feel you're on the same side, but Patti's goal was to release tension by belittling someone, because Patti's gonna Patti.

Patti talks about her recent covid infection, here.

Why are you so utterly devoted to some anonymous, anti-masker/probably anti-vaxxer, R90?

[quote] Queen Patti chose the one that gave her the dopamine rush and made a room full of people uncomfortable.

They didn't sound uncomfortable when they gave her a rousing ovation before the words had completely left her mouth.

Did you even watch the video? Where are you getting the idea that she "made a room full of people uncomfortable?" Sounds a lot more like that theater was uncomfortable having an anti-masker in the audience.

[quote] Patti had a obviously observable legitimate purpose, i.e. enforcing the rules not only of the theater but the City of New York.

Thank you, R84, for that explanation,

But is Patti LuPone the one charged in enforcing the rules of the theatre or the City of New York?

I move for a mistrial! I'm very scattered.

Better yet: Have you been harrassed by Patti LuPone? We can help. We've been arguing the law about this kind of atrocity for years.

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Woodward and Charlie... the Cellino and Barnes of the thee-ah-tuh!

There are probably hundreds of witnesses to what happened before the video started. Any one of them would testify that the patron was asked calmly to wear their mask before the video started.

It's 2022 and I still can't believe the number of people who just automatically assume that a viral video captured all of the relevant action. As someone upthread said, people start recording AFTER the conflict escalates. We're all living in a Covid world now so argumentative covid deniers are not something we're not well aware of already. We've all seen this type. We know how they are. This woman wasn't some hapless tourist uninformed about local ordinances. She knew what the rules were when she bought her ticket, and she was definitely reminded of them repeatedly, through verbal commands and signage.

Stop defending her, and stop imagining all sorts of "what really happened...." scenarios. Another dime-a-dozen maskhole made a public thing all about them. This is nothing new and it needs to be called out everywhere.

I would never be so harsh!

WWPD?

R93, since New York state does in fact have a citizens arrest statute, anyone is legally able to enforce the laws of the state. The law does not require her to enforce laws, but neither does it require law enforcement officers to do so.

[quote] New York, through Criminal Procedure Law 140.30 and Penal Law 35.30, permits any person to detain (arrest) another for an offense committed in your presence, and for a felony that the suspect actually committed, even though out of your presence

I must admit that this the mask mandate is not a law but rather a public health rule mandated by the Department of Health, however the same citizen enforcement clause in the statute still apply.

If you saw someone endangering public health by blatant disregard for health and safety codes you are legally able to take the same actions as prescribed in the statute.

[quote]I still can't believe the number of people who just automatically assume that a viral video captured all of the relevant action.

Datalounge is full of knee-jerk contrarians who are only able to express themselves in vituperative disagreement. You could say "Fire burns" and some genius would shriek "No it doesn't you festering gash!"

CitiZENS ArREST!

R101, I got into an argument once with a guy who insisted that you should put your finger into boiling water in a pan to measure that it was deep enough before adding rice. He didn't just double down, he tripled down, all this blah-blah-blah about thermodynamics and how it's totally safe to put your hand into boiling water if it's just for a second. And he wasn't even one of our trolls, as far as I could tell.

[quote]since New York state does in fact have a citizens arrest statute, anyone is legally able to enforce the laws of the state. The law does not require her to enforce laws, but neither does it require law enforcement officers to do so.

Thank you, Tony...R99.

And that is why these escalate into screaming matches. LuPone should have had the management handle it. It was not her responsibility.

I can imagine just how much the theatre owners and those paying LuPone's salary love it, when she pulls stunts like this.

Oh, Patti!

What Patti needs is a good push.

This guy is brilliant

I’m confused, was she in the middle of singing Meadowlark when she let the explicatives fly?

Brilliant?

R104, as I said in my first post, you may find the manner in which she acted distasteful, but she was acting fully within her rights as a New Yorker to behave as she did.

I will allow, though give you the side-eye, for your use of “theatre” since the venue spells it that way however it is a signal that you are foreign to the laws and customs of New York.

As to what the producers and owners of the “theatre” believe, this is great social media buzz surrounding the show and one expects that as in much of show business, any press is good press.

What a rube R110

Team Patti, always. The only people that are bashing here on this thread are the no goodniks who have always hated her.

Good for you, Patti, you loudmouthed Sicilian Long Islander.

R111, are you saying I’m a rube or that BPC is? I’m confused.

Off topic: a relative died and I discovered a bunch of matchbooks. Can any New Yorker tell me about The Little Hippodrome on 227 East 56th St.? Thanks.

r107 I feel sorry for his neighbours

Lupone is 100% right in this case.

And how is “I pay your salary!” a gotcha? The audience member is present under the condition she remains masked. What a brat.

“I pay your salary” is a very MAGA/Karen response.

R110...Born and bred New Yorker here. Just prefer certain spellings of words.

By your logic, we should have all been going around and berating anyone not wearing a mask, no matter the venue. My excuse to the law, when things start to escalate due to fracases over this..."As a citizen, I am legally able to enforce the laws of the state." See how far that gets me.

What's the crime the woman committed? None. The state has lifted the mask mandates in New York. Broadways theatre owners have kept the mandate in place until the end of this month. Those are House Rules. And the House has the right to escort the woman out. Not Patti LuPone.

I do not care whether LuPone asked her civilly or not at the beginning or whether the woman refused, LuPone could have handled it better than she did.

And R110...may I call you Tony? Thank you for maintaining such civility in our exchanges and not resorting to such a New York attitude as thinking others are beneath them who might not be familiar with the laws, customs, and etiquette of New York and its show business. You truly are a lesson in humility.

I love her to death but god help you if you get on her bad side.

Please sweet baby Jesus let a remix video appear before the day is over

I cannot believe this has been not posted yet

I prefer my Broadway stars to be more understated - think of Bebe Neuwirth, Dana Ivey, Alice Ripley, etc.

Talented doesn't have to mean cunty.

I prefer mine to be divine bitches: Patti LuPone, Elaine Stritch, Lauren Bacall, Ethel Merman, et al.

She sounded polite first but when it doesn’t work…

She really truly is the cuntiest cunt who ever cunted!

Yes, R124, that audience member certainly was and still is.

Why would any sensible person spend money to see/hear an old bag whose Past Due date has long passed. She should be in her apartment reading her Medicare Hand Book about high blood pressure.

She’s getting over the top ridiculous. Most people are done with masks. She has said herself theater is a dying art, so she should be happy people are even showing up to see her.

I honestly always thought she was overhyped.

Why, when she is yelling at an audience member, is her enunciation perfect, yet, when she is singing, she is unintelligible?

Theater is still a thing?

I I’m 100 percent team Patti and the theatre-going, maskless bitch should have worn a mask and was a cunt for not doing so when she was asked to do so several times, but with that said, didn’t need to start screeching like sharpie, telling this woman to GTFO.

You never, EVER know what you’re dealing with when it comes to these Ani-mask nutjobs, and being that Patti is a New Yorker, she ought ya know.

These freaks have killed people for being asked to put on a mask.

Going off on one of these freaks could literally put your life at risk even more so than a bout of CoViD for the vaxxed and boosted.

This is no MARY! shit, either. It’s the truth.

Was the audience member Bill Smitrovich?

Sorry for the typos @ r131, but you all get my drift, surely.

r60 you really think her reaction was just as bad as someone refusing to wear a mask properly? You're equating coarse language with putting actual lives at risk. Masks have been proven to reduce acquisition and transmission of the virus. It's a settled issue at this point. I suppose you also believe giving someone the finger is just as bad as driving while wasted. Shallow idiot.

R87 Isn't a cereal box where Patti found her SAG card?

Patti should be wearing a mask. Damn pretentious cunt.

Just like Alec Baldwin, one of these days Patti is going to rage out on the wrong person and get either a fist or bullet to the face in return.

Except Alec didn’t get the bullet, r137. He shot the bullet.

But yes. I get what you mean.

[quote] I prefer my Broadway stars to be more understated - think of Bebe Neuwirth, Dana Ivey, Alice Ripley, etc. Talented doesn't have to mean cunty.

Doll, if you don't equate two of the three of those names with "cunty" then you've never encountered them. Bebe and Dana (es-PECIALLY Dana) are two of the biggest cunts that ever left a slime trail across the great white way.

I wish there was a Patti at every grocery store, every bar or restaurant, every superstore, every gym.... when COVID was exploding all over us. How many times will you be confronted by a Patti before you understand you cannot bring attention to yourself by not wearing a mask. I was tempted so many times.....

You forgot about public transportation, R140.

...and so many other public places, R141.

They should just have Patti record all the subway announcements.

With that face, I guess I can understand why she's always so hateful and angry.

I applaud LuPone for shaming this woman. The woman knew the conditions of attending the theatre. If she didn’t want to mask, she didn’t need to attend. And I’m sure she was equally rude to fellow audiences members who dared ask her to cover her face. So she needed to know how she was disadvantaging everyone who are trying to enjoy a night of theatre during a pandemic.

Did the woman get escorted out?

Omg shut up Bonnie Prince Charlie. NO ONE cares what you think, and Patti is about to win her third Tony and there’s not a fucking thing you can do about it. Defending a fucking antimasker in NY. You are so full of shit. Just shut the fuck up you stupid fucking Trumpie. And go back to being anonymous. Every time you open your fucking mouth you spew moronic shit.

Yes, R146.

Ugh, she’s so vulgar and obnoxious. Prides herself on it, gets approval for it. So overrated as a performer. Elaine Paige was by far the superior Evita.

Wow R134, I'm a "shallow idiot." And R147, I spew "moronic shit." Go back and read my posts. At no time do I defend the theatre-goer for not wearing a mask properly.

I just don't think agree with the way LuPone berated the woman.

When people go low, I always try to go high.

What a cunt. I can't imagine the chore it must be to live or work with her on a daily basis.

R150, with all due respect, suggesting that Patti be sued for harassment certainly SEEMS as if you’re advocating for the audience member.

Patti = Foul-mouthed woman who believes her own publicity.

It doesn’t matter if you go low or go high. These people are garbage.

I went to several shows this weekend, including Company. Some idiot from Texas came to Company 45 minutes late, wore his mask at half mast, and argued with the usher about masking. His next show was Funny Girl, so I figured his punishment fit the crime.

At the last show, some guy next to me also had his mask under his nose. I suggested he raise it, like everyone else in the theater. He huffed about how it fogged up his glasses, so I suggested an N95 and told him that I didn’t make the rules that he agreed to when he bought his ticket. His wife glared at me with the rage of a 70 year old woman.

Do not make it comfortable for them. They are the assholes.

Yet you’re ok with the way the anti-masker berated Patti and disrespected the health and welfare of the audience during a pandemic?

I am indifferent about masks but also not an asshole- I wear them if asked/ required. This makes me love Patti LuPone.

[quote] At the last show, some guy next to me also had his mask under his nose. I suggested he raise it, like everyone else in the theater.

So you're one of THOSE people. You're as insufferable as the anti-maskers.

R158, you are on it THOSE people who buy a ticket that says you will agree to wear a mask that covers your mouth and nose. And then refuse to do so. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Frankly I'm surprised. I've been seeing quite a bit of theatre since September and it seems to me that audiences have been generally quite obedient about masks. Perhaps not consistently.

This scene must have been equally embarrassing as Kate Hepburn's 40 years ago.

R152...Tony...I do not think anyone should be bullied. And it escalated to that.

Would Patti LuPone have wanted this to happen to the audience member, as she left the theatre?

I think just got her Tony Award sewn up now.

I adore- ADORE Patti, and I agree with her 100%. But, I do think she loses control sometimes. I promise you, she regrets it now that the video is out there.

All that said, I love the woman.

One of these days somebodys gonna sue her old ass for public humiliation.

That BonniePrinceCharlie poster is deranged. Possibly one of the last surviving patients of Dr. Walter J. Freeman, or a mean case of dementia.

No lobotomy yet, R164. LOL!!

When it happens, I'll change my moniker to "Rosemary Kennedy."

The back and forth has been fun today.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring here on The DataLounge? Perhaps I'll be given a chance to defend Faye Dunaway on a thread.

[quote] I agree with her point of view, but I do find her unhinged freakouts aren't funny.

They're not funny.

They're HILARIOUS.

R161, you’re conflating one well-known person, while physically separate on a different floor, yelling at someone else to a single person being hit and shoved by multiple complete strangers, while surrounded by a hostile crowd of hundreds in a massive arena?

You’ve lost your damn mind and are just grasping at trollish, incomprehensible straws now.

r107 - he IS funny, but he has much better Patti clips. This Glenn Close one gave me a chuckle.

it's the law...

I thought she was allowed to kill with just one look?

[quote]"Imagine having the unmitigated gall to tell arguably the most beloved musical theater actress of all time that you pay her salary," added Twitter user @MajorPhilebrity.

Wait, Angela Lansbury was there too?

Good fundraiser for next year

BC/EFPL

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Patti LuPone

[quote]When people go low, I always try to go high.

You miss out on all the good dick that way.

Things that would be funny:

1. The unmasked woman stands up and screams back, "Elaine Paige was the better Evita!" (my long-held opinion)

2. The woman turns out to be a major, major benefactor of the theater.

3. Patti gets caught maskless in public in coming days. Then again, who would care?

R170 - if there was a platinum class W&W category, that post would be admitted. Concise, anchored - the definition of deftly clever.

All those slamming Patt for being maskless, you have to realize the covid virus stops right when it gets to the stage. It's like a magical wall.

Apparently being shown up as an idiot several times already wasn't enough for R176

R167...I'm not being trollish, nor have I lost my mind. And I certainly agree that the Black woman at that rally was in physical danger and the woman in the theatre may not have been.

But LuPone's attitude turned bullying, when she needn't have done so. And I stand by my initial statement that the woman should have worn her mask properly, but it was not LuPone's place to tell her to "Get the fuck out."

Team Patti.

It’s akin to the maskless loons on a plane and everyone chanting and screaming for their removal.

Bonnie Prince Charlie: still a trolling moron.

Bonnie, you’re becoming tiresome and repetitive. As do most people who have given themselves handles on an anonymous discussion board.

Her talent has always been a given but it always seems to be outdistanced by her raunchy attitude and rudeness.

when has she slapped someone?

Who are all the stupid fucks on this thread saying the woman could sue Lupone for "harassment" and "public humiliation"? The woman agreed to abide by the house rules, which include being fully masked, when she purchased the ticket and entered the building. She's the antagonist in this situation and is putting the entire show at risk of closing. Only a bully, narcissistic, MAGAt trash pull stunts like this. The trolls on this thread must really identify with this to defend it.

cunts will be cunts

The lip of a proscenium arch creates social distancing.

"DO UR JOB CUNT!! PERFORM GURLIE!!!

[quote] Her talent has always been a given but it always seems to be outdistanced by her raunchy attitude and rudeness.

She is the epitome of NYC.

Patti is such a Karen.

No, the antimasker is the Karen.

The mandate requiring masks in Broadway shows ends in two weeks.

R188 Long Island, more like.

I know she is tremendously talented - but her ego is just too much for me - I mean, who the fuck are you - just shut up already. what a twat.

Is she really tremendously talented?

Actress Deidre Hall has penned an OpEd to counter Patti LuPone

Why I Won't Wear A Face Mask When Broadway Re-Opens By Deidre Hall

I was on the NYC subway today. I'd say 40% of riders unmasked, black, white, young and old. Assholes!

Kind of gross, imo. It's very little to ask of NYers for awhile with so many children, seniors and those with comorbidities using public transit.

R194 supernaturally talented. We can debate her manners, but you can't deny her singular talent. It may be that you need to see her live to fully get it, but this video gives a pretty good idea. Best I've EVER seen.

She acts like she grew up in a trailer park.

[quote]Theater is still a thing?

FOLLIES!

Was this to destract the audience from her terrible acting?

Or your terrible spelling.

Think about it, Broadway is struggling still, and this shrew berates a paying customer. However you feel about masks, you have to wonder what the theater owners thought about that.

You mean the theater owners who set the rules that the cunt in the audience was breaking?

R203 They were doing what they had to do in the context of New York City. Don’t pretend anyone likes this shit. Besides, apparently in two weeks the mandate goes away and it will be fine. Pretty arbitrary if you ask me.

I am in LA and I recently went to a play for the first time in a long time. A friends kid was in the show. I didn’t particularly enjoy the play, and was jammed into a stuffy theater, a well-known one mind you, wearing the mask. If they were that serious about it they could have left spaces in between the seats but no. It was suffocating and of course I followed the rules. However if I pulled it down under my nose for a minute just to get some air and Patti fucking LuPone went off on me in such a vicious foulmouthed way, I’d be enraged. What would I have done? Probably walked out, giving the up yours gesture as I left.

Oh and I would add, I assume everyone was required to show proof of vaccination before they went in? That’s what I had to do in LA, same in New York?

Really tired of pompous Patti's act.

This late in life one doesn’t fuck with one’s brand, only enhance it.

How long will Patti stay with Company after she wins her third Tony on June 12th?

She's the epitome of a Karen. Sick of her!

I'm assuming there'll be a Sondheim tribute on the Tony Awards, with his widower sitting in the audience.

[quote] I am in LA and I recently went to a play for the first time in a long time. A friends kid was in the show. I didn’t particularly enjoy the play, and was jammed into a stuffy theater, a well-known one mind you, wearing the mask. If they were that serious about it they could have left spaces in between the seats but no. It was suffocating and of course I followed the rules. However if I pulled it down under my nose for a minute just to get some air and Patti fucking LuPone went off on me in such a vicious foulmouthed way, I’d be enraged. What would I have done? Probably walked out, giving the up yours gesture as I left.

Sweetie, pulling down your mask "just to get some air" isn't going to change things either way, so get down off the cross. You can breathe just as well wearing a mask as you can without. I've spent upwards of 14 hours non-stop wearing a mask when I travel without once lowering it or removing it and there's no issue. And spare me the "I have asthma" bullshit. It doesn't matter and no you don't.

LuPone is reversing the trend of audience members attacking people on stage by attacking audience members

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The most surprising thing is that they are still masking in NY

I'm attending an indoor theatrical event tomorrow evening in the Boston area and no proof of vaccination is required and masks are optional.

R215 And...?

And . . . you're ignorant.

So? Boston is full of racists and white cunts.

R211 So go ahead and strap on six masks at a time, all ding dong day, every day. Knock yourself out, toots. Nobody is stopping you, because nobody gives a shit. But maybe Patti will see your post and think what a good person you are!

Awww, R219's freedumbs have been questioned!

R220. Ow! What a comeback. What does that even mean? I mask indoors in crowded situations, am triple vaxxed, follow the rules out of courtesy. I just wouldn’t want some miserable old cow screaming curses at me for the nose thing, not when I paid to be sitting far enough down in front for her to see. She could have offered a polite reprimand/request and that would have sufficed.

[quote]And spare me the "I have asthma" bullshit. It doesn't matter and no you don't.

As a mild asthmatic, you're wrong. Masking makes breathing unpleasant. Still, I'd rather that than the alternative. But your arrogant dismissal is not true and reflects badly on you.

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STOP POSTING THAT, R223.

The vaccination and mask mandate is on the agreement when you purchase the tickets. If you don't like it or don't want to adhere by the rules, then fine, just stay the fuck home.

[quote]not when I paid to be sitting far enough down in front for her to see

It was a talkback you dumb fuck

R226 What difference does that make? And why was Patti herself not wearing a mask? Please explain, in detail.

[quote] Ow! What a comeback. What does that even mean? I mask indoors in crowded situations, am triple vaxxed, follow the rules out of courtesy. I just wouldn’t want some miserable old cow screaming curses at me for the nose thing, not when I paid to be sitting far enough down in front for her to see. She could have offered a polite reprimand/request and that would have sufficed.

You're either a complete moron or you're being willfully stubborn to try and win your point. (Here's a tip- you're losing.) It's been stated on here (and in the recording) several times that Lupone DID ask her politely more than once. So stop trying to turn the story to your favor and shut the fuck up already. You lost.

[quote] What difference does that make? And why was Patti herself not wearing a mask? Please explain, in detail.

This has also been explained, troll.

R227 You really are dumb aren't you? Because everyone who's attending the talkback moves down to the front. And there's every possibility the Karen wasn't even there for the performance and only showed up for the talkback.

And, once again dumb fuck, Broadway actors are tested when they get to the theatre.

R228 uh…what exactly did I lose now?

Judging by your posts, a majority of brain cells.

Bit over the top IMO

227 or not social distancing as she shrieked

Does Karen Lu Pone not eat in NYC restaurants?

Patti is my diva since 1988. She can do no wrong. I agree with what she said, and she was in the right.

That said, I have to admit, this wasn't exactly her finest hour. She clearly lost control, and needs to work on reigning that in.

I forgive her, because she's given me so much joy over the years. And again, the thing she said was right, if not the way she said it.

Wait, she can do no wrong? But you forgive her, for what? Doing no wrong? Your post raises existential issues r236. Clarify. CLARIFY!

R236, get off the computer and go take your meds.

R237 you know what I mean. I hate to admit it, but the WAY she expressed herself- she could have, and should have, done much better. And I feel conflicted about being critical, since I am a fan.

Is Patti LuPone ever NOT on the verge of flipping out on someone?

R190 they're both Karens. Fixed it for you.

did anyone else on the panel notice or comment or just Karen?

Unlike the leaked video from Take Me Out, I don't think this is going to increase ticket sales for COMPANY

I've hated that ugly cunt since the first time I saw her on "Life Goes On".

Her mouth is bigger than Jesse Williams' dick!

I'm not an anti-masker, I just can't stand her superiority, my shit don't stink, attitude.

R243, Ticket sales for Company are anemic.

When Patti wins her third Tony next month, she'll pay a tearful tribute to Sondheim in her acceptance speech, who once told her to her face that she wasn't a star.

If Elaine Stritch was still around she would have bashed miss "I pay your salary" on the head with a three liter bottle of 100 proof vodka. Patti was using the kid gloves here.

Patti is an unhappy miserable OLD cunt.

Lol. Patti wins again and you miserable old Trumpie cunts can’t stand it. Suffer.

r251: One cannot post this clip too often!

This is over the top, even for Patti.

One sentence would have been enough. A long rant is just unhinged

Tiresome bitch.

Although it’s a running gag on here that celebs are posting anonymously, I can totally imagine ol’ potty-mouthed Patti on this thread, at her laptop in sweats and reading glasses, furiously typing, upvoting, downvoting, calling people “doll” and “sweetie,” proclaiming “Patti wins again!”

I am so tired of being told that I have to tip-toe around the anti-maskers, that we won't convince anyone if we are not polite and courteous to them. Why should we? It doesn't work. These people literally do not care that, because of their deliberate actions, they could actually kill people. And that is a characteristic of a sociopath. Start fining them, and/or kicking them out of the venues where they are not following the mask rules. Fuck them.

R251 How did she win, and did you ever consider charging Trump rent for all the time he spends living in your head?

Hooray for R251! And YIPEEE! for La LuPone who VERY likely has a third Tony in the bizz-ag in June. Cant wait to watch the Tonys on CBS. Wouldn't miss seeing Patti rewarded once again.

As for R250, allow me to help you slink off to the sidelines, I'll pay your fare, give three cheers!

R256 sounds like so many drivers in NYC. Get Patti on street patrol. And that includes cyclists who pay no attention to traffic lights, lanes, signs or crosswalks!

Trumpie is a catch all phrase for all you fascists. I’m sure you’d love it if Trump actually mattered. He doesn’t.

Lupone is a hypocrite, she was not wearing a mask.

This is the elites vs the rest of us. She goes out to dinner, unmasked, she rides in her limo, unmasked. The masks are worn by the driver and the waiter, not the elites.

I do hope she gets her comeuppance someday.

Where's the SCIENCE that wearing these masks actually work against spreading a virus? I'm still waiting for the proof.

[quote] I’m sure you’d love it if Trump actually mattered. He doesn’t.

My EXACT thoughts.

Masks for the plebs, not the celebs.

R263 no proof exists.

[quote]I'm still waiting for the proof.

That's because you're ignorant, and in your world 'doing research' means watching a YouTube video from someone you know agrees with your point of view.

How much evidence?

Ah yes, that well respected journal, The Epoch Times.

Embarrassed for you.

Patti LuPone is so damn ugly she should wear her mask all the time

R261 the masks protect the elite

We’re embarrassed for you, you anti science Trumpie nutcase.

LuPone has a pumpkin head, repulsive lips and a short squat body

Hey, those repulsive lips are responsible for one of the best theater games : Guess what lyric Patti was trying to sing.

Actually, the woman was not necessarily an anti-masker, She was in fact wearing a mask but it wasn't covering her nose. Not sure if she was sitting that way the entire time or not.

Why don’t you go ask for her hand in marriage then, R275? She sounds like exactly your type.

R276 How now frau cow?🤣😍😂😊😁☺️😛😉 or why not Gov. Newsom who sat maskless in a fancy SF restaurant surrounded by other maskless elites before vaccines existed?

'We're embarrassed foy you' R272 is that you and your lonely dick?

R265 Patti is a hippocrite

Patti should star in a revival of "The Shrike" Joseph Kramm's play about the vengeful wife of a successful theatrical director. BTW a shrike is a songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling it prey of small birds, lizards and insects. Sounds tailor made for LuPone.

I adore Patti. But this is so spot on.

No-one will ever do it like Fat Bob Kelly.

R281 What a difficult song to sing. The whole Evita score, in fact. You do need a real ball buster to carry that show.

R280, June Allyson, of all people, played the wife in the movie.

At least someone who can enunciate.

How did her husband ever put up with her?

“Faster! Faster! What right do you have to go so slow? I’m not paid by you.”

R284 Never saw the film but in what sounds like a shrew that could have been played by Joan Crawford, Anne Bancroft or Ruth Roman, a couple of reviews thought that Allyson was effective at being passive aggressive rather than outwardly shrewish.

Patti should have been wearing a mask.

Everything that comes out of her mouth starts on a 10. And we wouldn't want it any other way.

You can always retire, Patti, and spare the audiences from your cuntitude.

[quote]This Covid insanity must end.

This was posted by our long-time anti-trans troll "Clayton," which just once again supports my point that the anti-trans trolls are all-purpose rightwing trolls who post on ALL threads, not just the trans ones. He's not even remotely the only anti-transer who's also a COVID denier.

remember when the nazis convinced everybpdy to hate those filthy parasitic jews? yeah! history may not repeat but it often rhymes.

oh yeah and everybody (even if you're gay) with a dissenting/differing opinion is automatically a donald trump supporter and/or an anti-tranny turrrollll. yeah okay. 😂😆😱🤡😁🤪

It is easier to dismiss someone as a Trump supporter than to come up with an intelligent argument, R293.

R263, There is none. It was all illuminati global worship symbolic of the takeover. I'm serious about this. It's similar to some devil worship type shit.

Wow, some QAnon freaks have really taken over certain threads on this site. I really wish they would require a credit card to be able to post, to weed out the alt-right nut cases.

R293 You're saying you're not a Trump supporter? I don't believe that for a SECOND. Loser.

Anyone who doesn't worship goddess Patti and vigorously defend everything she does ( because she is totally above reproach) is a Trump-supporting MAGA eating scum that doesn't belong on this forum..... no, doesn't deserve to live. There's only ONE way of thinking here and that's whatever Patti wants!!!

I think a lot of y’all are just kissing up to her now that summer’s coming and it’s going to be a hot one. Y’all want to be invited to the ALW memorial pool!

She was never talented.

R297 Fuck off, lowlife.

Patti’s snatch stinks! Pee-you!

Isn't there a good chance Patti posted R297?

Lol, Patti can do no wrong. Box office for Company jumps over 100k in the weeks after her tirade against Trumpies. Suck it, fascists. You’ll never be able to get rid of Patti. NEVAH!

Define NEVAH?

If it were in Texas, the patron would have shot Patti... or if they were both riding in the NY subway.

I miss living in a society where we didn't have to scream at the idiots all the time

By " idiots" are you referring to the non-masker or Patti? Or both?

Shut up, Kellyanne.^^^

Is Patti LuPone descended from a harpy clan?

Pray for the Company cast if Patti does not win the Tony.

In the PBS Company documentary when she’s at the makeup mirror she looks strikingly like Laurie Metcalf. They should play sisters in something.

I love Patti. She's a real Broadway broad. She reminds me of my mother who was another vulgar Sicilian fishwife but who could also be very funny.

But I also love that ATC troll story of "Splatsi Lupone" (someone here amended that to the better "Splatti")

You mean Splatsy Trombone.

So she did it for the publicity. Box office $ was so so. Uptight cunt.

R314 That's an idiotic, and untrue statement.

Is Patti Danza related to Tony Danza? I love hims

In a picture in La LuPone's dressing room in the NY Times, you could see taped to her mirror the note that Stephen Sondheim wrote to her shortly before he died.

I've seen her with Seth Rudetsky a few times, and in the Q&A, Seth asked about working with Sondheim. Patti said "I don't think he likes me." He was tough with Patti. But, so was he tough with Elaine, and Bernadette, and Mandy, I'm sure.

It must have meant the WORLD to her that he took the time to write this. Quite a classy gesture on his part.

Patti, who I very much respect and find amusing in her excess, was no doubt the kind of talent that often needed and benefited from some tough.

R317, Wouldn't you think Stephen Sondheim would know how to spell enhancing?

R319 I’m sure he was dictating it to his secretary, blame the cute Twink himbo chorus boy he hired, not Stephen.