Islander_fan said: "My co worker was in the mezzanine during a performance of War Paint, he left for the bathroom, came back and noticed that his door was slightly propped open. So he closed it. Few min later, a woman came back to go to her seat. Turns out, that she left for the bathroom while he was gone, doorstop fell down when she opened the door and the door was open till my friend returned. He closed it, thought nothing of it and went about his shift.
The next day, I was with him upstairs and the house manager was walking around doing his usual pre show greetings to all the ushers. He told my friend friend about LuPone wanting whoever the usher was that had the door open to be fired and demanded to know who it was. House manager said that of course he didn’t tell her who it was and that he’d never throw any of his ushers under the bus for any reason. We just rolled our eyes and laughed and chalked it up to this being a “Patti being Patti” moment and when on with our day."
Lea Michele did worse and she’s working in musical theatre. This doesn’t seem that bad in comparison, tho Patti shouldn’t treat staff or audience like that.