Patti LuPone is instructing theater etiquette once more.
The famously foul-tempered Broadway diva, 73, was caught on digital camera hollering at a maskless theatergoer on Monday evening, following a efficiency of her hit musical “Firm.”
The explosive second was recorded by one other viewers member and posted to Twitter, the place it shortly went viral, racking up greater than 200,000 views as of Wednesday morning earlier than spawning a sequence of reposts. (Warning: The video incorporates profanity.)
“Put your masks over your nostril, that’s why you’re within the theater,” LuPone might be heard lecturing the bare-faced patron at first of the 30-second clip.
The 2-time Tony winner — who battled COVID-19 again in February — subsequently blasted: “That's the rule. Should you don’t need to observe the rule, get the f–okay out!”
The viewers was heard erupting with cheers, as LuPone continued: “Who do you assume you might be? That you don't respect the folks which are sitting round you!”
Nevertheless, the maskless lady within the viewers wasn’t taking LuPone’s dressing-down frivolously, yelling again: “I pay your wage!”
“Bulls–t! Chris Harper pays my wage!” the Broadway icon raged in response, referencing the identify of “Firm’s” producer.
Reps for LuPone declined The Put up’s request for remark.
In the meantime, it’s not the primary time LuPone has let her mood get the higher of her whereas onstage, starting with the notorious tongue-lashing she gave a photo-snapping patron in 2009 at a efficiency of Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed “Gypsy.”
Again in 2015, LuPone walked as much as a texting theatergoer partway via a efficiency of the play “Exhibits for Days” and snatched the cellphone out of their fingers.
The stage legend subsequently instructed Playbill: “We work exhausting on stage to create a world that's being completely destroyed by a couple of impolite, self-absorbed and thoughtless viewers members who're managed by their telephones.”
LuPone has developed a repute as a Broadway diva over the many years, even threatening to stop the 2002 comedy “Noises Off” after reportedly throwing a “harrowing hissy-fit.”
Again in 1994, the performer was famously fired by Andrew Lloyd Webber from his manufacturing of “Sundown Boulevard.”
LuPone subsequently sued Lloyd Webber for $1 million, and used the funds to construct a swimming pool at her Connecticut property.
The sassy star named it “The Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool.”
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