Rose vs. Rose.
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It was only a matter of time. With Patti Lupone’s Relationship to Sunset Blvd. Andrew Lloyd Webber Famously thought over the past 12 months, she must begin a feud with a new legend. This time, it is with the only living theater actress more decorated than lupone herself. Six-Time Tony Winner Audra McDonald is Apparently “Not a Friend,” Lupone Told The New Yorker. McDonald Currently Stars As Momma Rose In Gypsy and is nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading roles in a musical, an award whic lupone herself won for heb portrayal of theater’s Most Vicious Mother 2008. Sunset All season and with tony voting closing on june 6, this vexation has dramatic timing. Below, A Rundown of the Relationship Between McDonald and Lupone, From Co-Stars to Shady Stars.
While they’ve Never acted alongside one another on broadway, they have certificate performed together. Most Famously, They were Both part of the Beloved “Six Ladies in Red” Who Performed in The Sudheim! The Birthday Concert In 2010. In 2000, They Performed in the NY Philharmonic’s Production of Sweeney todd Together, with lupone as Mrs. Lovett and McDonald as the Begar Woman. But, Most Notably, They Acted Together As The Two Female Leads In Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny With the los angeles opera in 2007, which was TAPED for PBS’S Great performanceand Won Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards. Be as asced about the experience in a 2023 Interview with Broadwayworld McDonald Said the Words That She Associated With The Production Were “Sexy Costums Onstage, Fun With Patti Lupone.”
The First Tension We Ever Heard About Begin Wen Lupone was Engaged in a separate Feud with a Respectted theater Actress, Kecia Lewis, in 2024. At the Time, Lupone was Starring in the Play The Roommate Opposite Mia Farrow at the Booth Theater while Lewis was in the Alicia Keys Jukebox Musical Hell’s kitchen At the Schubert, which Shares a Wall with the Booth. Acciting to lupone, Sound Bled Through the Walls From Hell’s kitchen into the much quieter play. Lupone was seen on video On October 16 Refusus to Sign A Hell’s kitchen Playbill Because the Show is “Too Loud,” and Later, Apparently Asked Hell’s kitchen to turn down the sound (which they did). Lupone’s Sound-Change Request Was Not Public Unil Lewis Responded to Lupone Publicly on November 2 in Instagram Video. In it, she addresses “Veterans Such as YourSelf and Including MySelf,” Requested an Apology, and Embedded the video of Lupone Not Signing the Fan’s Playbill.
“I WANTED TO ADDRESS THIS Because, Ms. Lupone, these Actions, in My Opinion, Are Bullying,” Lewis States. “They’re offensive, they are racially microaggresses, they’re rude, they’re rooted in privilege.” McDonald, who has not performed with lewis and is not knowing to be personal connected to her, commaten the emoji “❤️❤️👏🏾👏🏾” under lewis’s video. It did not go unnoticed – in their coverage of Lewis’s Video, People Referenceed McDonald’s Comment.
In a May 26 New Yorker profiles By Michael Schulman, lupone kicked things up – far past al The emoji shady. “I thought, You Should Know Better“Lupone Responded to McDonald’s Comment.” That’s Typical of Audra. She’s not a friend. ”
Lupone and McDonald, It Turns Out, have “some long-ago rift,” in Schulman’s Words, Though Lupone Did Not Want to Say what it was about. Wen As Asced About McDonald’s Current, Tony-Nominated Production of GypsyLupone Loked Out a Window before Saying, “What a Beautiful Day.”
Before Talking About McDonald, Lupone ALSO Directly Responded to Lewis’s Video Directly for the First Time, Calling Her a “Bitch.” She Questioned Lewis’s Reference to Both Herself and Lupone as Broadway “Veterans.” “Here’s the problem. She calls herself a veteran?” Lupone rebuffs. “Let’s Find Out How Many Broadway Shows kids lewis ha done, Because she dosesn’t know what the fuck she’s talking.” Lupone adds that a self would know that “this is not unusual on broadway. This happens all the time was walls shared.”
For reference: Lewis won a tony for Hell’s kitchen In 2024, and has been in a total of ten tens broadway Shows, in Comparison to Three-Time Tony Winner Lupone 28 Productions. McDonald, WHOM lupone does append to consider a fellow, has been in 15.
Not Yet, at Least Publicly. Howver, Others are Responding for Her. Broadway.com Editor Paul Wontorek Posted a Photo of Himself Alongside Lewis and McDonald on Instagram, Captioned “Spotlight on: Fabrulous veteran tony winners on broadway.” McDonald’s Gypsy CO-STAR JOY WOODS SHARED The Post, while Broadway Stars Including Donna Murphy (ALSO A MEMBER OF “LADIES IN RED”), Bonnie Milligan, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and Lewis’s Hell’s kitchen Co-Stars Maleah Jai Moon and Shoshanna Bean Have All Commented in Support.
Tony Winner Alex Newell, Who Played a Part Lewis Originated in the Broadway Revival of Once on this island, Posted A Series of Instagram Stories in Support of Both Lewis and McDonald on May 26. “You’ve gotten to inspires Brassy Belter that look like you and admire you” they wrote, Addressing lupone. “But to think that someone is doesn’t look like you can have posseible done isn’t a broadway itself though they made their broadway only 10 years after you did… is kinda crazy … Mcdonald for her one-week vacation this summer, if mcdonald ends up needing another break, kid lewis would be the gag of the season.
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