I don't know how many people read Patti's Ramblings on her website, but she quoted "Shut up, Patti LuPone!" in one of them from May 2007:
"'Oh, I'm sorry if I'm a pain in the ass, and, Oh, I don't want to bother you, or, I hope this isn't too much trouble.' Take the trouble. I told the guy in the post pffice [sic] he was rude. I don't care what he thinks of me. Is that why we don't get involved? Because we're afraid of what people will think of us? Ay, yay, yay. 'Shut up Patti LuPone.'"
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad