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Any seasoned New York City theatergoer knows that if you take your phone out or get a little too chatty during a show, there is a nonzero chance that Patti LuPone is going to yell at you. Usually this happens while she’s onstage — where she famously once snatched the phone right out of someone’s hand — but just because she’s in the audience does not mean disruptive patrons are safe from her wrath. One chatty audience member apparently found this out the hard way this weekend at a performance of Drew Droege’s Messy White Gays.
According to “Page Six,” LuPone was in the same audience as a woman who a source said was
“more primed for a bachelorette party than Off Broadway.” During the show, the woman fired off “an inebriated cavalcade of four-letter words” and at least one “Yes, bitch!” While most of us would probably resign ourselves to just being annoyed or maybe try to flag down an usher, LuPone reportedly took matters into her own hands after the curtain call.
LuPone apparently “cornered” this woman and told her, “Never go to the theater again!” The eyewitness told “Page Six” that the woman “quailed under the diva’s stony gaze and apologized.” As she should!
This is a nice end-of-year redemption moment for LuPone, who found herself in hot water this spring when she went after Broadway veterans Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis in the pages of The New Yorker. LuPone called Lewis a “bitch” and shaded McDonald’s performance in Gypsy, sparking enough of an outcry that she eventually apologized for her “demeaning and disrespectful” remarks. Blessedly, she’s now aiming her lasers at the people who actually deserve them: those who can’t shut up during a play. Thank you for your service, Ms. LuPone.
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