Glenn Shut is simply the newest actress to get caught in Patti LuPone’s crosshairs.
LuPone, 76, focused Shut, 78, in a scathing interview with The New Yorker revealed on Monday, Might 26.
The pair’s feud dates again to an incident in 1994 when composer Andrew Lloyd Webber selected the “Fatal Attraction” star to interchange LuPone as Norma within the Broadway debut of “Sunset Boulevard.”
LuPone had already been starring within the West Finish manufacturing of the favored musical, however Lloyd Webber forged Shut in a concurrent manufacturing in Los Angeles.
Though the “Agatha All Along” actress was contracted to observe the position to Broadway, she realized through a newspaper column that she was handed over for her new rival.
“I’d felt rejection,” LuPone instructed The New Yorker, “but not that kind of rejection.”
The pair’s squabble solely escalated when, years later, Shut sat subsequent to LuPone throughout a tribute to Broadway star Barbara Prepare dinner on the Kennedy Middle in 2011.
“She said, ‘I had nothing to do with it,’” LuPone claimed Shut instructed her. “I wanted to go, ‘Bulls–t, bitch!’”
The Submit reached out to Shut’s rep for remark.
Nonetheless, the Oscar nominee wasn’t the one star that LuPone took goal at in her blistering interview this week.
Audra McDonald additionally met the “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” singer’s wrath when Lupone insisted that the “Gilded Age” star, 54, is “not a friend.”
Whereas LuPone didn’t present any extra particulars about that feud, each she and McDonald have starred as Rose within the fashionable play “Gypsy.” LuPone received a Tony for the position in 2008, and McDonald, who’s starring within the position presently, not too long ago acquired her eleventh Tony nomination for the character.
McDonald additionally presently has six Tony wins versus LuPone’s three.
“What a beautiful day,” LuPone instructed The New Yorker when requested about her Broadway colleague’s efficiency in “Gypsy.”
Elsewhere in her fiery interview, the “Company” actress and singer focused Kecia Lewis within the wake of a nasty back-and-forth that they had final yr over the musical “Hell’s Kitchen.”
Lewis, 59, mentioned LuPone’s remarks had been “offensive,” “racially microaggressive,” and “rude” after LuPone mentioned the play was “too loud.”
On the time, LuPone and Mia Farrow had been starring in “The Roommate” whereas Lewis was starring in “Hell’s Kitchen” subsequent door.
“Oh, my God,” LuPone mentioned of the incident. “Here’s the problem. She calls herself a veteran? Let’s find out how many Broadway shows Kecia Lewis has done, because she doesn’t know what the f–k she’s talking about.”
“She’s done seven,” the “American Horror Story” star added. “I’ve done thirty-one. Don’t call yourself a vet, bitch.”
LuPone, who is ready to star in Season 3 of “And Just Like That…,” additionally dished about her “terrible” seven-year relationship with Kevin Kline, 77.
“I took an instant dislike to him,” she mentioned of first assembly the “A Fish Called Wanda” star at Juilliard in 1968. “He looked like Pinocchio to me. He had skinny legs and he was tall, and I didn’t really see the handsomeness.”
“It was a painful relationship,” she added. “I was his girlfriend when he wanted me to be his girlfriend. And I, for some reason, stuck it out until I couldn’t stick it out anymore.”
Kline went on to tie the knot with Phoebe Cates in 1989. LuPone married Matthew Johnston in 1988.
