Brian Wililam's Show: Patti LuPone's "Gypsy" Outburst

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 3/21/12 at 10:28pm

It's showing now on his show "Rock Center With Brian Williams" on NBC. from Roman

[binau]

Posted: 3/21/12 at 10:30pm

An audio clip or is there a video bootleg?

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 3/21/12 at 10:47pm

They showed a bootleg video clip, and then segued into the infamous video of her flip out.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 12:44am

There's VIDEO of it? I've only heard audio!! Someone link me now!

[BroadwayFan12]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 1:42am

"Every single one of you except for that person has respect, and I and the rest of the company oppreciate it."

I find it hilariously ironic that the only reason we know every word of her outburst is because it was bootlegged.



Updated On: 3/22/12 at 01:42 AM

[Skip2]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 2:33am

I was there.

She was giving an amazing performance but then came "the rant" right in the middle of "Rose's Turn" and the spell was broken.

[Huss417]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 7:52am

What was the reason for them showing this?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 9:41am

It was a segment on mobile phones ringing in theaters, though they noted Patti's rant was directed at a photo-taker. Stacey Keach, Alan Gilbert and Ken Davenport were among those interviewed.

Surprisingly, they concluded it's mostly a problem with older patrons who don't know how to or don't bother to shut off their ringers. So they said the problem will solve itself in a few decades. But they said nothing about the light from the screens of teens reading their text messages.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 10:40am

"the problem will solve itself in a few decades."

Yeah when they all die. Then we will have the vibrating tatoos to worry about.


Can think of an iteresting possibility

Updated On: 3/22/12 at 10:40 AM

[Huss417]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 12:40pm

Thanks for the info Broadway Local. I thought there is a way for a theatre or any other place to sort of block the signal to begin with? Or am I showing my age as one that won't be here in a few more decades to even worry about it?:)

[jdtp12]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 1:12pm

Here is the link to the video:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/46816268#46816268

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 1:32pm

is that audio the source of the YOU'VE BEEN LUPONED parody? is there a link for that still active?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 1:36pm

Relax, dolls. There is no footage of that now legendary outburst.

That particluar section starts off with a flash of a bootleg video of LuPone performing "Rose's Turn" but when the actual clip of the famous audio actually plays, they just show a slideshow of press photos of LuPone in the "Rose's Turn" number.

Again... there is NO actual bootleg video of LuPone's rant at that particular performance. Its still just audio-only.

[JoanBennett]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 4:26pm

Not long ago, I saw a musical that had a short run. In the second act, the 20 something next to me started texting wildly. I whispered, "Put that away!" She said, "Why? Nothing's happening in this stupid show!" I was about to pull a LuPone when I realized... "she's right."

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 4:40pm

They couldn't have just used an actual press clip? I laughed out loud when I recognized that it was an actual bootleg clip they were using.

[ActingIsLovee]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 5:11pm

it's hardly only teens who are texting. When I saw A Little Night Music the woman two seats down from me, probably in her early 40s, would not stop texting the entire show. It was extremely distracting.
What I also don't understand is why you would pay for an extremely pricey orchestra seat and then sit there and text for 2 and a half hours?

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 6:00pm

"I text, therefore I am"....some peeps need validation from others constantly that their choices and emotions are valid.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 3/22/12 at 7:11pm

At the risk of showing my age, I once saw a very pissed off Katharine Hepburn stop a matinee of The West Side Waltz because a flash pic was taken of her. She demanded that the guy be escorted out of the theater and said that she would gladly pay for his ticket. Hepburn was more relaxed in demeanor than Lupone but then again when she broke character she was playing a woman much more laid back than Mama Rose; and she certainly didn't interrupt herself in the middle of Rose's Turn. The audience was completely supportive of Hepburn.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/23/12 at 10:50am

Oddly, the only people I've ever seen pulling out and using their phones during a show have all been female. And thus, we have a wonderful new stereotype.

[showinoff]

Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:47pm

I wonder if the bootlegger was paid for his footage.