News about Patti LuPone

Patti LuPone REIGNITES feud with 'narcissistic, insecure' Andrew Lloyd Webber - 30 YEARS after he fired her from Sunset Boulevard musical to replace her with Glenn Close

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 4, 2024
Patti LuPone has reignited her feud with Andrew Lloyd Webber, 30 years after he banned her from his musical of Sunset Boulevard. Despite the fact that Patti appeared in the original London run of the show and was slated to reprise her role in New York, she was replaced for Broadway by Glenn Close. Patti argued with Andrew, who regained $1 million, which she used to build what she referred to as the Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool at her country house.

Patti LuPone reveals why she is NOT happy Kim Kardashian is joining American Horror Story

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 24, 2023
With Kim Kardashian appearing in American Horror Story, Patti LuPone has a bone to pick. During an interview with Watch What Happens Live, the Broadway legend, 74, who has appeared on American Horror Story, sheds light on why she isn't thrilled that Kim landed a role on the program. Patti said she was worried that Kim's new role would be different from that of a professional actor when she was asked.

While doing a 'intense' scene with Patti Lupone, Joaquin Phoenix FAINTED on the set of Beau Is Afraid

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 2, 2023
According to Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix fainted during filming of the forthcoming film Beau Is Afraid. The 36-year-old filmmaker, who is working with Phoenix for the first time, recalled the on-set incident during a Q&A panel held at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in New York on Saturday. According to Deadline, the 48-year-old Walk The Line actor was off-camera when he collapsed to the ground while costar Patti LuPone, 73, was shooting a scene.

The View FINALLY allows studio viewers to take off their face masks three years after COVID

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 7, 2023
The audience's demand for masks on ABC's The View has now been lifted, with the hosts acknowledging the change on Monday's show. Since returning to the studio in 2021, the hosts knew the audience was maskless, but on Monday, they discovered it was maskless. During the pandemic, the View was known for promoting COVID safety, but some hosts had been chastised for overhyping the virus's seriousness.

Agatha: The Coven of Chaos by Debra Jo Rupp has joined Marvel's Agatha: A Phenomena

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 4, 2023
Debra Jo Rupp has joined Patti LuPone as part of Marvel's Agatha: Coven of Chaos just weeks after Patti LuPone appeared on the cast. Although no details regarding her character were revealed, it seems that she will reprise her role as Mrs. Hart from Marvel's WandaVision. The show is a spin-off of WandaVision, focusing on Kathryn Hahn's eccentric character Agnes, who was revealed at the end of the series as a strong witch from Marvel Comics named Agatha Harkness.

In the WandaVision spin-off Agatha: Coven Of Chaos, Broadway actor Patti LuPone appears

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 22, 2022
Patti LuPone, a Broadway actress, has been selected to appear in Agatha: Coven Of Chaos, the forthcoming WandaVision spin-off. On the perplexing movie, Kathryn Hahn appears as the title supervillain. Patti, 73, a stage legend with three Tony Awards to her name, has hopped aboard the project, according to insiders.

Patti LuPone opens up about why she left the Actors' Equity Association

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 19, 2022
Patti LuPone expressed surprise on a tweet that she had announced that she was leaving the stage actors union only one day after Patti LuPone announced that she was not on a tweet. "Quite a week on Broadway, seeing my name being bandied about.' I'm on the lookout for my Equity card; no longer a member of the juggling circus. Figuring it out.' In a Deadline interview on Monday, she confirmed that she resigned from AEA in July after finishing her tenure on Company, but she added more in a new interview with People, where she referred to the AEA as the "worst union."

Patti LuPone won't be on stage for 'a very long time' as she gives up her Actors' Equity card

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 17, 2022
When Patti LuPone dropped her Actors' Equity card, she announced that her Broadway days are coming to an end 'for a long time.' After becoming a target of criticism on social media this week, the 73-year-old legendary stage actress revealed on Monday that she was dropping the card. The card – as well as its membership in the Equity labor union that it represents – is required to appear on Broadway and in several theaters around the country, which means LuPone will not be seen on stage or in any theaters for as long as she is out of the union.

The Sweeney Todd Page claims that a musical masterpiece will land on Broadway in 2023

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 6, 2022
According to a Ticketmaster listing, the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd is scheduled to land at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City in 2023. According to the listing, the musical will premiere on Broadway for the first time since 1980 - with Jonathan Tunick's classic 26-player orchestration on an epic scale.' Hamilton director Thomas Kail, 44, leads a cast including Josh Groban, 41, playing the titular role, and Annaleigh Ashford, 37, playing Mrs. Lovett.

Patti LuPone, 73, pays tribute to her Sopranos actor brother Bob LuPone

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 30, 2022
Patti LuPone has paid tribute to her late brother Robert as a 'unparalleled' dancer. After it was revealed that the actress had died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 73, she talked about her older sibling, 73. Patti, a Broadway veteran, told Page Six: "My brother Bobby was a natural dancer." And it all started when he saw me in a dance recital wearing a hula skirt. I was four years old when he was seven.'

On the NYC set of FX's American Horror Story season 11, Isaac Powell and Charlie Carver kissed

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 10, 2022
On Monday, filming of FX's American Horror Story in West Village, Manhattan, began on the 11th season of the series. Isaac Powell and Charlie Carver were seen kissing on the set. In Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's horror anthology book, the 27-year-old Grammy nominee portrays Theo, while the 34-year-old SAG Award nominee plays Adam.