LuPone on McDonald- Page 33

[TasteOfHoney]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 9:16pm

gibsons2 said: "TasteOfHoney said: "OkIbram Xolani Kendi called he wants his material back - the anti racist ideology is so 2020 😋"

You don't have to be so open about your racism, you'll find more receptive audience on X, trumpie."

Yep it’s racist to identify the writer whose flawed ideology has influenced the other posters world view - he made bank pushing his psiedo intellectual buzz word filled stupidity and you people now think a sound complaint is racist , I don’t vote and I don’t care but I read and stuff and CRT is reverse racism  with fancy SAT words , it’s a cancerous revenge ideology and 99% of humans  reject it, Sorry your world view has devolved into calling all white peoples racist for any possible reason. I want harmony , you want revenge for past racism - CRT is against everything a genX peacenik Broadway fan stands for 

[BentleyB]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 9:23pm

DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Now that everything is back to normal, can this thread end??"

 

I am staring , in silence, for fifteen seconds. I then turn to the window and sigh, “What a beautiful day.”"
 

[MezzA101]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 9:44pm

Patti LuPone Is Doing Something Unusual. She’s Apologizing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/theater/patti-lupone-apology-audra-mcdonald.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Lk8.PBEQ.XIMjM6q6fH1v&smid=nytcore-android-share

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 9:50pm

DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Now that everything is back to normal, can this thread end??"

Honestly, I hope not. 🍿 

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 10:56pm

SmokeyLady said: "She just did a play on broadway. Has one fiercely popular tv show. Is in the new season of Just Like That. Has two upcoming projects for Ryan Murphy and a very popular concert she takes everywhere. VIVA LUPONE!"

A play that didn’t earn her any acclaim or awards. What a LEGEND! People only want to see Patti sing. She’s learned a lesson about her conduct and that’s all that matters. Broadway is as political as the White House. There was no way she was coming back from this unless she apologized - which is why she did. 
 

 

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 11:00pm

Idiot said: "NOWaWarning said: "We really should get an all-star cast to do a benefit reading of this thread."

But who would play Ensem8675309?"

It’s really funny when the racism turns into bullying. But what else would I expect from a board full of white minded people. I’ll find a Neo nazi to play you. 

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 11:02pm

DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Now that everything is back to normal, can this thread end??"

Back to normal meaning a board of people complacent in racial micro aggressions as long as it doesn’t tarnish the legacy of their Queen? Yes, honey. Carry on. 

[abcd12]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 11:12pm

Ensemble1698878795 said: "DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Now that everything is back to normal, can this thread end??"

Back to normal meaning a board of people complacent in racial micro aggressions as long as it doesn’t tarnish the legacy of their Queen? Yes, honey. Carry on."

You are really sad. 

[Madeline'sTwistedNeck]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 11:15pm

Ensemble1698878795 said: "DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Now that everything is back to normal, can this thread end??"

Back to normal meaning a board of people complacent in racial micro aggressions as long as it doesn’t tarnish the legacy of their Queen? Yes, honey. Carry on."

 

Oh God, you are sad! Like really really sad. I hope you get the help you need. 

 

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 11:53pm

Madeline'sTwistedNeck said: "Ensemble1698878795 said: "DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Now that everything is back to normal, can this thread end??"

Back to normal meaning a board of people complacent in racial micro aggressions as long as it doesn’t tarnish the legacy of their Queen? Yes, honey. Carry on."



Oh God, you are sad! Like really really sad. I hope you get the help you need.

You’re on this message board taking the time to call me sad…. So what does that make you? Righteous? 

 

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 11:56pm

abcd12 said: "Ensemble1698878795 said: "DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Now that everything is back to normal, can this thread end??"

Back to normal meaning a board of people complacent in racial micro aggressions as long as it doesn’t tarnish the legacy of their Queen? Yes, honey. Carry on."

You are really sad."

Folks against the norm in these spaces are called all kinda things. I’m sad bc I don’t align with your white morals? 

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 12:03am

Just ignore Ensemble1698whatever, y'all.

 

Performative activists only do what they do for attention. So don't provide it.

[TasteOfHoney]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 12:09am

Ensemble1698878795 said: "abcd12 said: "Ensemble1698878795 said: "DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "Now that everything is back to normal, can this thread end??"

Back to normal meaning a board of people complacent in racial micro aggressions as long as it doesn’t tarnish the legacy of their Queen? Yes, honey. Carry on."

You are really sad."

Folks against the norm in these spaces are called all kinda things. I’m sad bc I don’t align with your white morals?"

The CRT  gibberish white silence, white fragility blah blah blah is over now, get hip to the new cause celebre, which is Zionism blah blah blah 

[BWAY Baby2]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 12:13am

Patti has issued an apology- kudos to her- and now the thread should be officially ended- Patti took note of the reaction to her quotes- and did the right thing. Maybe she will stop being so temperamental in future interviews. I doubt this was actually racism- more like the people who Lupone criticized and dissed happened to be black. That is the way I read it. Lupone is a very opinionated, moody, bitchy person--she would do better to keep away from press. Of course, she is not going to change- but she just might understand that talking so freely about her gripes with fellow actors--and her bitchy summations of her peers performances and personalities--- to the press can have major negative consequences for her career. She is clearly not a kind and sweet person- and is immature and arrogant. Grow up, Patti- there is still time! There always is!!

Updated On: 6/1/25 at 12:13 AM

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 9:23am

BroadwayRox3588 said: Performative activists only do what they do for attention. So don't provide it."

 Pretty much describes every person who posted in this thread.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 9:27am

QueenAlice said: "BroadwayRox3588 said:Performative activists only do what they do for attention. So don't provide it."

Pretty much describes every person who posted in this thread."

It describes pretty much everyone who has opined on this fiasco anywhere, whose name isn't Audra McDonald. Especially on social media.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 11:00am

Publicly, LuPone is all over the place but professionally, based on numerous friends who’ve worked with her on projects - far past, recent past, and present - she’s adorable, generous, accessible, and a full on professional. THESE are things that keep her working and why creatives and producers choose her for projects. Her crazy public antics bring attention to her so there’s that added plus for them, but at work there is zero of this messiness. 

[Kad]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 11:25am

BrodyFosse123 said: "Publicly, LuPone is all over the place but professionally, based on numerous friends who’ve worked with her on projects - far past, recent past, and present - she’s adorable, generous, accessible, and a full on professional. THESE are things that keep her working and whycreatives and producers choose her for projects. Her crazy public antics bring attention to her so there’s that added plus for them, but at work there is zero of this messiness."

Yeah, that's in line with what I've noticed in this whole thing- for all of the outrage, there's been a lack of actual allegations or even anecdotes of her doing anything worse than calling women "bitch" or being demanding or self-centered. As Lauren Bacall once sang, "welcome to the theatre!"   

I think it would be reasonable for one to take issue with the fact that "bitch" seems to be her go-to insult for women who cross her and make an argument that there is internalized misogyny there. But there have been some- including that letter- that lump her in with people with noted records of staggering abuse and harassment of all sorts- physical, sexual, emotional. And there just doesn't seem to be any indication that is the case with LuPone. Being mean sometimes is not the same thing and, imo, simply lessens the weight of terms like "abuse," "violence," "harassment," etc. 

Updated On: 6/1/25 at 11:25 AM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 11:41am

Well nobody can lessen the harm abusers and people who do actual harm to others do, like theater folks it seems.

[Bette's Turban]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 12:15pm

They have been eating their own.  The whole episode puts a light on how artificial and full of themselves the “theater community” is.   All of them.  

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 1:05pm

So many sweeping generalizations made throughout this thread, frequently being used as a way to make one's personal opinion seem like it carries more weight or worse yet, is accepted universal truth.

Updated On: 6/1/25 at 01:05 PM

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 1:44pm

QueenAlice said: "BroadwayRox3588 said:Performative activists only do what they do for attention. So don't provide it."

Pretty much describes every person who posted in this thread."

Precisely. The bigoted minded folks who come on here and combat discussions around race do not comprehend that their active dismissal is as performative as they blame me to be.
 

 

[Ensemble1698878795]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 1:46pm

Bette's Turban said: "They have been eating their own. The whole episode puts a light on how artificial and full of themselves the “theater community” is. All of them. "

They as in Patti? Patti had an opportunity to reply to Kecia months back but didn’t think it necessary. That’s on her. 

[Idiot]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 2:34pm

Dear Ensem,

Your maniacal crusade to label people as racist infuriates me, so I spent some time in introspection.  Investigating why something makes you angry is enlightening. 

We’ve entered a social chapter where words like racist and pedophile are used insincerely and you’re guilty of it.  Your passion may be real, but your goal is not what you’re hoping people will mistake it to be.  It’s vile.

Caring about mistreatment based on race is inarguably a positive thing.  Using the word ‘racist’ to wrest cheap power over others (see: The Crucible) is ethically corrupt – and it’s what you’re doing.  

Patti wasn’t being racist – she crossed the line from salty to tacky and if she didn’t know it she wouldn’t have apologized.  The accusation of sublimated racism made by Ms. Lewis is likely what set her off – and I don’t blame her for that.  I blame people with your self-serving, wickedly casual misuse of that potentially fatal label.  The fatality of it is what turns you on.  You’re like a child with a gun.  I hope there’s nothing micro about the aggression I mean to convey about what you’re spewing here.  It’s poisonous to the very thing you hope to be seen as advocating for.

To evoke that other open letter, WE SEE YOU – but not as the crusader you fancy yourself to be - rather, as a selfish, petulant charlatan doing real harm to important progress.  

Updated On: 6/1/25 at 02:34 PM

[BdwyFan]

Posted: 6/1/25 at 2:35pm

Audra 100% winning Tony next week.  Any doubts removed now.