Battle Of Broadway Divas: Patti LuPone Says She's 'Not Friends' With Audra McDonald, Disses Her 'Gypsy' Performance - uInterview

'Not A Friend' — Patti LuPone Has A Black Woman Problem [Op-Ed]

Source: Getty Images Full disclosure: I am a musical theater baby. My mother laughingly recalls taking a single-digit me to my first musical — and my inconsolable weeping when the production ended, because I didn’t “want it to be over.” That nascent love of musical theater would follow me through childhood, into a college major, and well into adulthood, so I consider myself a fairly reliable source when it comes to discussing the hits, misses, a…

Battle Of Broadway Divas: Patti LuPone Says She's 'Not Friends' With Audra McDonald, Disses Her 'Gypsy' Performance - uInterview

Broadway diva Patti LuPone stated during an interview that she and fellow theater star Audra McDonald are “not friends,” and she also appeared to slam McDonald’s performance in the recently revived Broadway musical Gypsy. During an interview with The New Yorker, LuPone stated that McDonald was “not a friend” and that the two of them had drifted apart a long time ago. The reporter also mentioned that the singer did not care to elaborate. LuPone w…