Tuesday, January 13, 2009

OMG Patti, Oh No You Didn't!

Stop everything. Patti LuPone's admonishing rant toward the photographer at the Pentultimate Gypsy was all a big misunderstanding!

From Jan at Broadway & Me:

I got back to the city to find almost everyone, including my fellow bloggers Steve on Broadway and Sarah B at Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment, buzzing about how Patti LuPone literally stopped the show during the penultimate performance of Gypsy on Saturday night to yell at someone in the audience who started taking pictures of her as she sang “Rose’s Turn.” My pit musician-husband K who played in the Gypsy orchestra immediately started lamenting the fact that our vacation had kept him away from being there for the historic moment.

Now I hear from an insider who was there that the whole incident was a simple misunderstanding. It seems that Patti had a photographer following her around backstage for several days doing a magazine article about her and the poor fella went around front to document some of her iconic moments in the show. And says my source, “That was the person she had thrown out! She forgot he was there!”

OH, PATTI!

4 comments:

Roxie said...

Oh Patti...

Hula Hank said...

LOL! That is just too funny!

Patti Ann said...

sometimes genius also means crazy.

Anonymous said...

Regardless of whether or not he was following her around backstage onstage photography is not permitted. He obviously did not ask permission to photograph during the show and in all technicality that is illegal.