You Won’t Believe Why Patti LuPone is Under Cancel Culture Fire
Broadway icon's Tony Awards appearance threatened by fellow Leftists
Patti LuPone lacks a filter.
The Broadway legend says what she wants, no matter the subject. The best example?
She famously yelled at a patron during the pandemic for not wearing a mask mid-performance.
She also has said horrible things about Christians and a certain two-term president. More on that in a moment.
All of the above didn’t derail her professional career (nor should it). Now, after a curious series of comments found in a New Yorker profile, she could get booted from the upcoming Tony Awards gala.
The Broadway diva disinvited on her own turf? Inconceivable!
Not really. LuPone is as hard-Left as most of her peers, leaving her vulnerable to the same Identity Politics rules that dominate her party. The only surprise? It took this long for her to face the music.
Broadway performers and theater professionals are calling on the producers of the Tony Awards to disinvite Patti LuPone from the show after the theater legend made controversial remarks about Audra McDonald and “Hell’s Kitchen” star Kecia Lewis in an interview with the New Yorker.
The letter in question boasts north of 500 signatures, including fellow Tony winners James Monroe Iglehart, J. Harrison Ghee and Maleah Joi Moon.
“No artist, producer, director, or leader — regardless of legacy or celebrity — should be allowed to weaponize their platform to belittle, threaten, or devalue others without consequence,” the letter reads.
The irony couldn’t be more obvious.
LuPone, in the very same New Yorker interview, repeatedly called for The Kennedy Center to be “blown up” due to its connection to the Trump administration. That violent passage got ignored by the Legacy Media and, apparently, the 500+ signees to the open letter in question.
It didn’t escape the attention of Megyn Kelly.
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LuPone previously compared conservative Christians to Islamic terrorists. Does that count as her “belittling, threatening, or devaluing others without consequence?”
Those comments never inspired an open letter of this kind. Nor has anyone on the Right demanded she be banned from the Tony Awards.
Instead, her creative colleagues piled on after she called fellow Broadway star Kecia Lewis a “bitch.” The context? The performer insinuated that LuPone was a bully and a racist. The conflict stemmed from back-to-back theater productions where the sound from one was bleeding into the space of another.
LuPone, starring in one of the two shows in question, asked for her next-door peers to turn the volume down. When they collectively did, LuPone sent the cast and crew flowers as a “Thank You” gesture. That sparked Lewis’ verbal attack on social media.
The open letter also cited LuPone for throwing “shade” at another Broadway star, Audra McDonald. The Broadway star “liked” Lewis’ social media slam against LuPone, drawing the latter’s ire.
Both Lewis and McDonald are black.
Will the Tony Awards disinvite a living legend from the June 8 gala? Will LuPone speak out against the rigid orthodoxy that dominates her party? Or will she go on an Apology Tour, hoping to stave off a cancellation that strikes to the heart of her legacy?
UPDATE: LuPone went the Apology Tour route:
“For as long as I have worked in theatre, I have spoken my mind and never apologized,” LuPone wrote in an Instagram post Saturday. “That is changing today. I am deeply sorry for the words I used during The New Yorker interview, particularly about Kecia Lewis, which were demeaning and disrespectful. I regret my flippant and emotional responses during this interview, which were inappropriate, and I am devastated that my behavior has offended others and has run counter to what we hold dear in this community. I hope to have the chance to speak to Audra and Kecia personally to offer my sincere apologies.”
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Where’s liberal’s defense of free speech? It doesn’t exist when liberals feel slighted even by their own community. No free speech ever when you leave their plantation of common thought.
Completely predictable uber-woke New York theater cult behavior. Patti should apologize for her over-the-top performance in “Beware of Greeks,” the worst episode of “Frasier” ever.
Gosh! Where micro-aggressions rule, no ones safe!