{"id":351547,"date":"2025-12-16T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351547\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:16:07","slug":"never-go-to-the-theater-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351547\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Never go to the theater again!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re told Patti Lupone was irriated by a fellow audience member at a performance of \u201cMessy White Gays\u201d over the weekend.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Patti Lupone is famous for dressing down audience members at her shows. <\/p>\n<p>But apparently she\u2019ll take matters into her own hands when she\u2019s there to watch the show as well<\/p>\n<p>Page Six has learned that the Broadway legend \u201ccornered\u201d an unruly patron at show that wasn\u2019t even hers and gave them the Full Lupone.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told that she \u201ccornered\u201d the offending theatergoer after the show. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Spies say that \u201cGypsy\u201d star was at the Duke on 42nd Street this weekend catching Drew Droege\u2019s buzz-making \u201cMessy White Gays,\u201d and we\u2019re told a woman in the audience \u201cseemed more primed for a bachelorette party than off-Broadway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the offending attendee peppered more than half the one-act show\u2019s runtime with \u201can inebriated cavalcade of four-letter words\u201d and a cackled \u201cYes b*tch!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the show, we\u2019re told La LuPone \u201ccornered\u201d the unsuspecting loudmouth, telling her: \u201cNever go to the theater again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spies say that Lupone told the woman to \u201cnever go to the theater again!\u201d WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Our spies tell us the lady \u201cquailed under the diva\u2019s stony gaze and apologized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lupone\u2019s summary justice is legend.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 the three-time Tony-winner stopped mid-song in \u201cGypsy\u201d to yell at someone snapping pictures with a cell phone, and she\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2015\/07\/09\/patti-lupone-snatches-phone-from-texting-audience-member\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snatched phones out of the hands of audience members<\/a> on many an occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Lupone has a longrunning vendetta against cell phones. Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s even said that the advent of iPhones has led her to consider leaving the stage altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt isn\u2019t changing, it\u2019s only getting worse,\u201d she said in a statement after one of her phone-confiscating moments. \u201cAnd it takes, it\u2019s stressful. It\u2019s incredibly stressful. So, I will think twice before I sign another Broadway contract. I really will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show has been a big hit not just with gay icons like Lupone but with actual gays.<\/p>\n<p>Cheyenne Jackson,\u00a0Jeff Hiller,\u00a0Michael Urie,\u00a0Bowen Yang,\u00a0Matt Rogers,\u00a0Chris Colfer,\u00a0Todrick Hall,\u00a0Bryan Safi and even tech billionaire\u00a0Peter Thiel (who is mentioned in the show) have made it to the Duke to catch it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A rep for Lupone didn\u2019t get back to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re told Patti Lupone was irriated by a fellow audience member at a performance of \u201cMessy White Gays\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,174987,132816,12362],"class_list":{"0":"post-351547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-off-broadway","11":"tag-patti-lupone","12":"tag-theater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}