{"id":100604,"date":"2022-10-18T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/broadway-actress-patti-lupone-says-shes-stepping-away-from-the-stage\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:10:03","slug":"broadway-actress-patti-lupone-says-shes-stepping-away-from-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/broadway-actress-patti-lupone-says-shes-stepping-away-from-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway actress Patti LuPone says she&#8217;s stepping away from the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-jmLDag wpds-c-jmLDag-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-jmLDag-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-jmLDag-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-jmLDag-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-jmLDag-futxca-cv wpds-c-jmLDag-iknmtxO-css\"><button aria-label=\"Comment\" class=\"PJLV PJLV-iPnDcc-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-kKAfCG wpds-c-efqEZa focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Actress and singer Patti LuPone said on Monday that she had given up her membership in the Actors&#8217; Equity union, signaling a step away from her celebrated, decades-long Broadway career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cQuite a week on Broadway, seeing my name being bandied about,\u201d LuPone, a three-time Tony Award winner, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PattiLuPone\/status\/1582021847771533312\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>.  \u201cGave up my Equity card;  no longer part of that circus.  Figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The tweet followed a week of high drama in the Broadway world that began when Lillias White, a \u201cHadestown\u201d cast member, called out an audience member on Wednesday over her use of a captioning device, which White mistook for a cellphone.  White drew intense criticism for the mistake, and the incident prompted comparisons to LuPone&#8217;s history of confronting audience members about their cellphone use during live shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Yet in a statement shared with The Washington Post, LuPone, 73, said she had dropped her union membership following her most recent production this summer \u2014 long before last week&#8217;s \u201cHadestown\u201d incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cWhen the run of &#8216;Company&#8217; ended this past July, I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be onstage for a very long time,\u201d the performer said.  \u201cAnd at that point I made the decision to resign from Equity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">LuPone also perform the performers for Broadway, telling People that she \u201cdidn&#8217;t want to give them any more money,\u201d adding that the Actors&#8217; Equity Association doesn&#8217;t \u201csupport actors at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">She told People that the union accepted her resignation, and she would have to be approved to rejoin.  The Actors&#8217; Equity Association, which represents tens of thousands of actors and stage managers, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">This is not the first time LuPone has talked about leaving Broadway.  In 2015, after making headlines for snatching an audience member&#8217;s cellphone out of their hands during a performance of \u201cShows for Days,\u201d LuPone told The Post: \u201cI am so defeated by this issue that I seriously question whether I want to work on stage anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">LuPone had accused that audience member of texting during her performance, and was praised for her actions.  Similarly, a crowd applauded her for stopping mid-song during a 2009 \u201cGypsy\u201d performance to yell at someone who was taking pictures during the show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The use of electronic devices during theater productions has been an increasingly common complaint among performers.  But last week, White, who is Black, received a far different response when accusing an audience member of using a phone during her show.  And while the circumstances of White&#8217;s engagement with the audience members were different from LuPone&#8217;s 2015 and 2009 confrontations, observers said the contrast in treatment represented <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ijamesharkness\/status\/1580963224177979397\" target=\"_blank\">a double standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">While LuPone was applauded for her actions, White faced a wave of backlash \u2014 some of it so vicious that the audience member whom White called out pleaded with people on social media to \u201cstop harassing\u201d the actress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cHadestown\u201d apologized to the theatergoer, but condemned the online response to White, saying in a statement to the New York Times that the reactions on social media had \u201cdevolved into racist, ageist and other abhorrently discriminatory language.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">LuPone did not directly comment on the controversy, aside from referencing her name being mentioned over the past week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The actress has been nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning her first in 1980 for her work in \u201cEvita.\u201d  She won her third Tony this year for her work in \u201cCompany.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"b bt bc-offblack dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this story Comment Actress and singer Patti LuPone said on Monday that she had given up her membership in the Actors&#8217; Equity union, signaling a step away from her celebrated, decades-long Broadway career. \u201cQuite a week on Broadway, seeing my name being bandied about,\u201d LuPone, a three-time Tony Award winner, tweeted. \u201cGave up &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/broadway-actress-patti-lupone-says-shes-stepping-away-from-the-stage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broadway actress Patti LuPone says she&#8217;s stepping away from the stage<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":99943,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/patti-lupone-says-shes-given-up-equity-card-signaling-stage-retirement-deadline\/","url_meta":{"origin":100604,"position":0},"title":"Patti LuPone Says She&#8217;s Given Up Equity Card, Signaling Stage Retirement \u2013 \u200b\u200bDeadline","date":"October 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE, with LuPone statement Triple Tony winner and stage icon Patti LuPone says she's given up her Actors' Equity card, a move that could signal an end \u2013 or at least a long break \u2013 to her noted Broadway stage career. \u201cQuite a week on Broadway, seeing my name being\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":100137,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/patti-lupone-says-she-has-resigned-from-actors-equity-the-hollywood-reporter\/","url_meta":{"origin":100604,"position":1},"title":"Patti LuPone Says She Has Resigned From Actors&#8217; Equity \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter","date":"October 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Patti LuPone says she has resigned from Actors' Equity. 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