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ninety_nine
01/20/09

In reply to Patti LuPone's Fabulous Mid-Show Freak Out
My 'best' Broadway horror story: the Roundabout revival of "Streetcar" at Studio 54 a couple years ago (mediocre, BTW, even after I realized Frank Sobotka was Mitch). Someone in my row, apparently wanting to relieve her high school drama glory, recited Blanche's closing line along with her.
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mathnet
01/20/09

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I am so glad somebody sneaked in a recording device!
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MisterHippity
01/20/09

@mathnet: Well, the clip Richard posted doesn't include the end of the recording:
- That man has a recording device! I won't stand for pictures, and I won't stand for bootleg recordings either! Stop him! beat him! Kill him!
- No, get away from me! Please ...
- C'mon, let's get him!!
- Leave me a alone! You're hurting me! AAAAAUGGGH!!!!

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MisterHippity
01/20/09

In reply to Patti LuPone's Fabulous Mid-Show Freak Out
It must have been hard for security to find that person after they crawled under their seat, curled into a fetal position and whispered, "Please, God, let me be anyone else in the universe right now!"
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MisterHippity
01/20/09

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"The man over there is taking pictures! Seize him! Kill him! I won't continue singing until he's dead! Ah yes ... good. Tear him limb from limb. I like that. Nice work. Now take his trunk and dismembered limbs and carry them out of the theater! And clean up that blood! Thanks for doing that. You're a really a great audience!"
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dailyplanet
01/20/09

@MisterHippity:

Sure the asshole should have been stopped from taking pictures...BUT the diva was trying to raise a lynch mob. What really got me was the crude brass in her tone as she kept ranting to the picture taker......

"WHO do you think you are?! WHO do you think you are?! WHO do you think you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, Patti I know who you are, but I won't go there.
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La Cieca
01/20/09

@dailyplanet: What really got me was the crude brass in her tone

Brass! In a performer celebrated for her portrayal of Rose in Gypsy. Imagine!

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Pope John Peeps II
01/20/09

In reply to Patti LuPone's Fabulous Mid-Show Freak Out
I'm going to relay a comment from the Daily Musto site, because it's niiiice:

Some dude got LuPwned.

Posted by: CMG at January 20, 2009 4:32 PM

CMG, wherever you are, I salute you sir.
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SixThirty
01/20/09

In reply to Patti LuPone's Fabulous Mid-Show Freak Out
Where was she the night I went to see Hairspray (judge not) and the yokels behind me - who were very excited to see that the "Girl from Dancing with the Stars" had gotten a part on Broadway - spent the entire first act talking back and forth at top volume across the row? The THIRD row. I'm fairly certain the actors could hear them better than each other.
Frankly, I would have liked to see Harvey Fierstein read them in a similar manner.
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pureblarney
01/21/09

@SixThirty: You have a right to let the House Manager know, in cases like that. That's hugely disrespectful to the cast and the whole crew, not to mention the audience.
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TroisFilles
01/20/09

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Proclamation, from now on, anyone who chastises a moron for inappopriate camera or cell phone use shall be referred to as having been soundly "Luponed." Someone, make it so. Please.
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La Cieca
01/20/09

@TroisFilles: Some unusually witty YouTube commenter has already coined the term "LuPwned."
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MisterHippity
01/20/09

@La Cieca: You've discovered a witty YouTube commenter? Amazing! You must feel like that guy who recently spotted an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker after everyone thought they didn't exist.

Better take pictures. Otherwise, nobody will believe you.
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Dickens_Ghost
01/20/09

In reply to Patti LuPone's Fabulous Mid-Show Freak Out
May I speak for all 12 straight men in Manhattan who love Broadway, go Patti.
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La Cieca
01/20/09

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Oh, Richard, La Cieca is just delighted that you posted this, you adorable little show queen you!

As I've pointed out several times already today to the gaggles who have sent me this clip, the amazing thing here is that when Patti is really angry, she sounds exactly like when she's acting "anger." There's no filter or stylizing in her Rose performance, just pure raw rage, which is why it works so incredibly well. She actually lives it up there.

an idea of what actually went on before and after the interruption, (from another, photographer-free night):

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Bitter Poor
01/20/09

@La Cieca: The problem isn't that her Mama Rose portrayal isn't great...it's that every character she plays is Mama Rose.
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dolemite1975
01/20/09

@La Cieca: Dude! She is fuckin' fierce!
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unclevanya
01/20/09

@dolemite1975: She takes on every role like it was opera-big. Mama Rose is opera-big. Mrs. Lovett is opera-big. Evita (although not in the same league) is opera-big. It's what she was born to do.

I saw her in Noises Off and it was a trainwreck. The play and the role weren't big enough for her. (Well that, and her Italian purr did not mix well with a Cockney accent)

Damn I wish I'd seen her Gypsy. They couldn't have let it run just a few weeks more?
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FormerEnglishMajor
01/20/09

In reply to Patti LuPone's Fabulous Mid-Show Freak Out
Good for her. I wish I could stop a show or movie and throw out the guy with his cellphone ringing or the girl texting right behind me with one hand while opening 7,500 candy wrappers the size of a NY Times Sunday print run with the other.
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Kid Twist
01/20/09

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Some people ...
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
01/20/09

@Kid Twist: But some people ain't me?
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TedSez
01/20/09

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Corky's mom has been mad ever since Becca said she was going to marry Jesse.
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CodePink
01/20/09

@TedSez: "You're not different, Corky, you're just special."
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angelheadedhipster
01/20/09

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It's also dangerous. Imagine what she would have done if he had caused her break an ankle? I bet stocks would be involved.
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Private Hangnail
01/20/09

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Broadway, it would seem, also does not go for flash photography.
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Private Hangnail
01/20/09

@Private Hangnail:

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