![\"Madonna](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Madonna-Through-the-Years-286.jpg?crop=355px%2C29px%2C1323px%2C748px&resize=400%2C225&quality=55&strip=all\")
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\n Related: <\/span>Madonna Through the Years: Pop Stardom, Motherhood and More<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tSince releasing her debut album in 1983, Madonna has rarely been out of the public eye \u2014 and she\u2019s never stopped delivering floor-filling pop hits. Born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1958, Madonna \u2014 whose full name is Madonna Louise Ciccone \u2014 started dancing as a kid after convincing her dad to let her study [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI was on the treadmill when MTV used to have videos and I saw, I believe it was \u201cBuenos Aires,\u201d and I thought it was a piece of s**t,\u201d she bluntly declared. \u201cMadonna is a \u2018movie-killer!\u2019 She\u2019s dead behind the eyes, she cannot act her way out of a paper bag. She should not be on film or on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lupone soon caveated, \u201cShe\u2019s a wonderful performer for what she does, but she is not an actress!\u201d<\/p>\n
The stage icon had a chance to walk back her criticism of Madonna during a 2024 appearance on Hot Ones<\/em><\/a> alongside Aubrey Plaza<\/strong> but, in typical Lupone fashion, she chose to \u201ceat a death wing\u201d rather than apologize to the \u201cMaterial Girl\u201d singer.<\/p>\nAndrew Lloyd Webber<\/h3>\n\n![\"Patti](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-Patti-Lupones-Shadiest-Comments-About-Madonna-Kim-Kardashian-and-More.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Jeff Spicer\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone has spent the better part of 30 years beefing with Broadway impresario Lloyd Webber, after he cast her as Eva Peron in Evita<\/em> in 1979. The dispute arose when Lloyd Webber subsequently fired Lupone for the leading role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard<\/em> before the show moved from the West End to Broadway, leading to a lengthy legal battle.<\/p>\nLupone said in an interview<\/a> years later that she would never work with Lloyd Webber again, partially because she felt he wrote \u201ccrap music.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cEvita<\/em> was his best score. In its bizarreness, when I first heard it, I swear to god I thought he hated women,\u201d she quipped. \u201cThere are some very romantic moments in his music, and then there is some real trash that he doesn\u2019t even think about parting with. He\u2019s not a very good editor of his own stuff.\u201d<\/p>\nWhen Lloyd Webber closed Phantom of the Opera<\/em> on Broadway in 2023, Lupone told a WWHL<\/em><\/a> viewer that, \u201cPhantom<\/em> is over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n![\"Nicole](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Nicole-Scherzinger-Hasn-t-Spoken-to-Patti-LuPone-or-Glenn-Close-About-Sunset-Boulevard.jpg?crop=0px%2C55px%2C2000px%2C1131px&resize=400%2C225&quality=86&strip=all\")
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\n Related: <\/span>Nicole Scherzinger Didn’t Talk to OG ‘Sunset Blvd’ Stars: ‘Too Nervous’<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tNicole Scherzinger did not go to her Sunset Blvd. predecessors Patti LuPone or Glenn Close before taking on the role of Norma in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. \u201cI think I\u2019d be too nervous to speak to Patti LuPone and Glenn Close. I absolutely love them,\u201d Scherzinger, 46, told Us Weekly exclusively during the Sunset [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been how many years, 90? Who hasn\u2019t seen Phantom<\/em> and why see it again?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\nThe duo finally made peace when Lupone performed as part of a tribute to Lloyd Webber at the 2018 Grammy Awards, but by 2024, they were back to butting heads.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndrew Lloyd Webber is a narcissistic, insecure man,\u201d she told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> at the time.<\/p>\nKim Kardashian<\/h3>\n\n![\"Patti](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2-Patti-Lupones-Shadiest-Comments-About-Madonna-Kim-Kardashian-and-More.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Amy Sussman\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone let rip<\/a> on Kardashian when it was revealed that the reality star landed her biggest acting role to date in American Horror Story<\/em>. Her comments were all the more awkward because Lupone has frequently worked with AHS<\/em> cocreator Ryan Murphy<\/strong> \u2014 including appearing in two seasons of American Horror Story<\/em>.<\/p>\nNonetheless, Lupone took issue when Cohen brought up Kardashian\u2019s casting in American Horror Story: Delicate<\/em> as part of a 2024 WWHL<\/em><\/a> episode.<\/p>\n\u201c[She\u2019s taking] a role away from actors,\u201d Lupone complained. \u201cExcuse me, Kim, what are you doing with your life? Don\u2019t get on the stage!\u201d<\/p>\n
Ouch!<\/p>\n
Donald Trump<\/h3>\n\n![\"Patti](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-Patti-Lupones-Shadiest-Comments-About-Madonna-Kim-Kardashian-and-More.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone has been an outspoken critic of the president during both of his terms, thus she held nothing back when asked by Variety<\/em><\/a> in 2017 if she\u2019d consider performing for Trump.<\/p>\n\u201cWell I hope he doesn\u2019t [come see me], because I won\u2019t perform if he does,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n
Asked to explain her stance, Lupone shot back, \u201cBecause I hate the motherf***er. How\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t bank on Lupone making any White House visits over the next four years\u2026<\/p>\n
Barbra Streisand<\/h3>\n\n![\"Patti](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-Patti-Lupones-Shadiest-Comments-About-Madonna-Kim-Kardashian-and-More.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Genesis Prize Foundation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone shaded Streisand a few times on WWHL<\/em> over the years, including telling Cohen she wasn\u2019t interested in her contemporary\u2019s 2023 memoir My Name Is Barbra<\/em><\/a>. During a 2022 interview<\/a> with Cohen, she criticized Streisand\u2019s casting in the 1969 movie version of the iconic musical Hello, Dolly!<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u201cBarbra Streisand was too young, and [original Broadway star] Carol Channing<\/strong> should have played it [in the movie],\u201d she argued.<\/p>\nAsked if she\u2019d ever consider playing Dolly, Lupone admitted, \u201cPeople have told me I should do Dolly<\/em>, and I didn\u2019t quite understand it.\u201d<\/p>\nDuring another WWHL<\/em><\/a> guest stint, Lupone laughed off a viewer question about Streisand potentially following in her footsteps by playing Mama Rose in a Gypsy<\/em> movie musical.<\/p>\n\u201cI know she\u2019d like to do it and I\u2019m sure there are technologies so she could do it, and I think, 50 years ago, she\u2019d have been a brilliant Madame Rose,\u201d Lupone said. \u201cI think she\u2019s too old. Again, there\u2019s technology to change all of that but I don\u2019t know, whether mentally, she has the capability [and] hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joanna Gleason<\/h3>\n\n![\"Patti](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-Patti-Lupones-Shadiest-Comments-About-Madonna-Kim-Kardashian-and-More-.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Walter McBride\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone was several spicy chicken wings deep into her 2024 Hot Ones<\/em><\/a> episode with Plaza when she admitted she was still salty over the 1988 Tony Awards. Lupone was considered a favorite to take home the Best Actress in a Musical Award that year for her performance as Reno Sweeney in the revival of Anything Goes<\/em>, only for Gleason to win instead for playing The Baker\u2019s Wife in Into the Woods<\/em>.<\/p>\nOn Hot Ones<\/em>, Plaza mentioned that Lupone is a three-time Tony Award winner, before reminding her that she also lost the Tony on five other occasions.<\/p>\n\u201cWhich of the actresses that beat you deserved their win the least?\u201d Plaza asked, with Lupone admitting, \u201cIt would be Joanna Gleason in Into the Woods<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\nLupone then jokingly clarified, \u201cI should have won for Anything F***ing Goes<\/em>! I love you Joanna, but you robbed me!\u201d<\/p>\nGleason was one of very few Lupone targets to respond to the diva, telling The Broadway Show<\/em><\/a> that there were no hard feelings over the slight.<\/p>\n\u201cI love her so much, she can say anything she wants,\u201d Joanna said. \u201cShe went on to win, like, two more [Tonys], right? She did OK. She was very sweet. She also sent me flowers when I won, so she\u2019s a champ. She\u2019s also an inspiration to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Broadway Audiences<\/h3>\n\n![\"Patti](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2207282017-Patti-Lupone-e1744999580538.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Kevin Winter\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone saves her angriest takedowns for the Broadway audience members who don\u2019t respect the live theater environment. In 2009, Lupone stopped<\/a> in the middle of a Gypsy<\/em> performance to call out an attendee who was interfering in her performance.<\/p>\n\u201cStop taking pictures right now,\u201d she ordered, before demanding: \u201cGet \u2018em out! I won\u2019t continue if they\u2019re taking pictures!\u201d<\/p>\n
Needless to say, the photographers were promptly shown the door. A 2016 incident involved Lupone literally snatching a phone away from an oblivious Show for Days<\/em> spectator.<\/p>\n\u201cI feel bad for the people who come here to have a theatrical experience and it\u2019s ruined,\u201d she explained to ABC News<\/em><\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n
Andrew Lloyd Webber<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>Jeff Spicer\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone has spent the better part of 30 years beefing with Broadway impresario Lloyd Webber, after he cast her as Eva Peron in Evita<\/em> in 1979. The dispute arose when Lloyd Webber subsequently fired Lupone for the leading role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard<\/em> before the show moved from the West End to Broadway, leading to a lengthy legal battle.<\/p>\nLupone said in an interview<\/a> years later that she would never work with Lloyd Webber again, partially because she felt he wrote \u201ccrap music.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cEvita<\/em> was his best score. In its bizarreness, when I first heard it, I swear to god I thought he hated women,\u201d she quipped. \u201cThere are some very romantic moments in his music, and then there is some real trash that he doesn\u2019t even think about parting with. He\u2019s not a very good editor of his own stuff.\u201d<\/p>\nWhen Lloyd Webber closed Phantom of the Opera<\/em> on Broadway in 2023, Lupone told a WWHL<\/em><\/a> viewer that, \u201cPhantom<\/em> is over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n Related: <\/span>Nicole Scherzinger Didn’t Talk to OG ‘Sunset Blvd’ Stars: ‘Too Nervous’<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tNicole Scherzinger did not go to her Sunset Blvd. predecessors Patti LuPone or Glenn Close before taking on the role of Norma in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. \u201cI think I\u2019d be too nervous to speak to Patti LuPone and Glenn Close. I absolutely love them,\u201d Scherzinger, 46, told Us Weekly exclusively during the Sunset [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been how many years, 90? Who hasn\u2019t seen Phantom<\/em> and why see it again?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\nThe duo finally made peace when Lupone performed as part of a tribute to Lloyd Webber at the 2018 Grammy Awards, but by 2024, they were back to butting heads.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndrew Lloyd Webber is a narcissistic, insecure man,\u201d she told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> at the time.<\/p>\nKim Kardashian<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>Amy Sussman\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone let rip<\/a> on Kardashian when it was revealed that the reality star landed her biggest acting role to date in American Horror Story<\/em>. Her comments were all the more awkward because Lupone has frequently worked with AHS<\/em> cocreator Ryan Murphy<\/strong> \u2014 including appearing in two seasons of American Horror Story<\/em>.<\/p>\nNonetheless, Lupone took issue when Cohen brought up Kardashian\u2019s casting in American Horror Story: Delicate<\/em> as part of a 2024 WWHL<\/em><\/a> episode.<\/p>\n\u201c[She\u2019s taking] a role away from actors,\u201d Lupone complained. \u201cExcuse me, Kim, what are you doing with your life? Don\u2019t get on the stage!\u201d<\/p>\n
Ouch!<\/p>\n
Donald Trump<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone has been an outspoken critic of the president during both of his terms, thus she held nothing back when asked by Variety<\/em><\/a> in 2017 if she\u2019d consider performing for Trump.<\/p>\n\u201cWell I hope he doesn\u2019t [come see me], because I won\u2019t perform if he does,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n
Asked to explain her stance, Lupone shot back, \u201cBecause I hate the motherf***er. How\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t bank on Lupone making any White House visits over the next four years\u2026<\/p>\n
Barbra Streisand<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Genesis Prize Foundation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone shaded Streisand a few times on WWHL<\/em> over the years, including telling Cohen she wasn\u2019t interested in her contemporary\u2019s 2023 memoir My Name Is Barbra<\/em><\/a>. During a 2022 interview<\/a> with Cohen, she criticized Streisand\u2019s casting in the 1969 movie version of the iconic musical Hello, Dolly!<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u201cBarbra Streisand was too young, and [original Broadway star] Carol Channing<\/strong> should have played it [in the movie],\u201d she argued.<\/p>\nAsked if she\u2019d ever consider playing Dolly, Lupone admitted, \u201cPeople have told me I should do Dolly<\/em>, and I didn\u2019t quite understand it.\u201d<\/p>\nDuring another WWHL<\/em><\/a> guest stint, Lupone laughed off a viewer question about Streisand potentially following in her footsteps by playing Mama Rose in a Gypsy<\/em> movie musical.<\/p>\n\u201cI know she\u2019d like to do it and I\u2019m sure there are technologies so she could do it, and I think, 50 years ago, she\u2019d have been a brilliant Madame Rose,\u201d Lupone said. \u201cI think she\u2019s too old. Again, there\u2019s technology to change all of that but I don\u2019t know, whether mentally, she has the capability [and] hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joanna Gleason<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>Walter McBride\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone was several spicy chicken wings deep into her 2024 Hot Ones<\/em><\/a> episode with Plaza when she admitted she was still salty over the 1988 Tony Awards. Lupone was considered a favorite to take home the Best Actress in a Musical Award that year for her performance as Reno Sweeney in the revival of Anything Goes<\/em>, only for Gleason to win instead for playing The Baker\u2019s Wife in Into the Woods<\/em>.<\/p>\nOn Hot Ones<\/em>, Plaza mentioned that Lupone is a three-time Tony Award winner, before reminding her that she also lost the Tony on five other occasions.<\/p>\n\u201cWhich of the actresses that beat you deserved their win the least?\u201d Plaza asked, with Lupone admitting, \u201cIt would be Joanna Gleason in Into the Woods<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\nLupone then jokingly clarified, \u201cI should have won for Anything F***ing Goes<\/em>! I love you Joanna, but you robbed me!\u201d<\/p>\nGleason was one of very few Lupone targets to respond to the diva, telling The Broadway Show<\/em><\/a> that there were no hard feelings over the slight.<\/p>\n\u201cI love her so much, she can say anything she wants,\u201d Joanna said. \u201cShe went on to win, like, two more [Tonys], right? She did OK. She was very sweet. She also sent me flowers when I won, so she\u2019s a champ. She\u2019s also an inspiration to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Broadway Audiences<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>Kevin Winter\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLupone saves her angriest takedowns for the Broadway audience members who don\u2019t respect the live theater environment. In 2009, Lupone stopped<\/a> in the middle of a Gypsy<\/em> performance to call out an attendee who was interfering in her performance.<\/p>\n\u201cStop taking pictures right now,\u201d she ordered, before demanding: \u201cGet \u2018em out! I won\u2019t continue if they\u2019re taking pictures!\u201d<\/p>\n
Needless to say, the photographers were promptly shown the door. A 2016 incident involved Lupone literally snatching a phone away from an oblivious Show for Days<\/em> spectator.<\/p>\n\u201cI feel bad for the people who come here to have a theatrical experience and it\u2019s ruined,\u201d she explained to ABC News<\/em><\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n
<\/div>Lupone has spent the better part of 30 years beefing with Broadway impresario Lloyd Webber, after he cast her as Eva Peron in Evita<\/em> in 1979. The dispute arose when Lloyd Webber subsequently fired Lupone for the leading role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard<\/em> before the show moved from the West End to Broadway, leading to a lengthy legal battle.<\/p>\n Lupone said in an interview<\/a> years later that she would never work with Lloyd Webber again, partially because she felt he wrote \u201ccrap music.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEvita<\/em> was his best score. In its bizarreness, when I first heard it, I swear to god I thought he hated women,\u201d she quipped. \u201cThere are some very romantic moments in his music, and then there is some real trash that he doesn\u2019t even think about parting with. He\u2019s not a very good editor of his own stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n When Lloyd Webber closed Phantom of the Opera<\/em> on Broadway in 2023, Lupone told a WWHL<\/em><\/a> viewer that, \u201cPhantom<\/em> is over.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\tNicole Scherzinger did not go to her Sunset Blvd. predecessors Patti LuPone or Glenn Close before taking on the role of Norma in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. \u201cI think I\u2019d be too nervous to speak to Patti LuPone and Glenn Close. I absolutely love them,\u201d Scherzinger, 46, told Us Weekly exclusively during the Sunset [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been how many years, 90? Who hasn\u2019t seen Phantom<\/em> and why see it again?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n The duo finally made peace when Lupone performed as part of a tribute to Lloyd Webber at the 2018 Grammy Awards, but by 2024, they were back to butting heads.<\/p>\n \u201cAndrew Lloyd Webber is a narcissistic, insecure man,\u201d she told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n Lupone let rip<\/a> on Kardashian when it was revealed that the reality star landed her biggest acting role to date in American Horror Story<\/em>. Her comments were all the more awkward because Lupone has frequently worked with AHS<\/em> cocreator Ryan Murphy<\/strong> \u2014 including appearing in two seasons of American Horror Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, Lupone took issue when Cohen brought up Kardashian\u2019s casting in American Horror Story: Delicate<\/em> as part of a 2024 WWHL<\/em><\/a> episode.<\/p>\n \u201c[She\u2019s taking] a role away from actors,\u201d Lupone complained. \u201cExcuse me, Kim, what are you doing with your life? Don\u2019t get on the stage!\u201d<\/p>\n Ouch!<\/p>\n Lupone has been an outspoken critic of the president during both of his terms, thus she held nothing back when asked by Variety<\/em><\/a> in 2017 if she\u2019d consider performing for Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cWell I hope he doesn\u2019t [come see me], because I won\u2019t perform if he does,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n Asked to explain her stance, Lupone shot back, \u201cBecause I hate the motherf***er. How\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n Don\u2019t bank on Lupone making any White House visits over the next four years\u2026<\/p>\n Lupone shaded Streisand a few times on WWHL<\/em> over the years, including telling Cohen she wasn\u2019t interested in her contemporary\u2019s 2023 memoir My Name Is Barbra<\/em><\/a>. During a 2022 interview<\/a> with Cohen, she criticized Streisand\u2019s casting in the 1969 movie version of the iconic musical Hello, Dolly!<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cBarbra Streisand was too young, and [original Broadway star] Carol Channing<\/strong> should have played it [in the movie],\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n Asked if she\u2019d ever consider playing Dolly, Lupone admitted, \u201cPeople have told me I should do Dolly<\/em>, and I didn\u2019t quite understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n During another WWHL<\/em><\/a> guest stint, Lupone laughed off a viewer question about Streisand potentially following in her footsteps by playing Mama Rose in a Gypsy<\/em> movie musical.<\/p>\n \u201cI know she\u2019d like to do it and I\u2019m sure there are technologies so she could do it, and I think, 50 years ago, she\u2019d have been a brilliant Madame Rose,\u201d Lupone said. \u201cI think she\u2019s too old. Again, there\u2019s technology to change all of that but I don\u2019t know, whether mentally, she has the capability [and] hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n Lupone was several spicy chicken wings deep into her 2024 Hot Ones<\/em><\/a> episode with Plaza when she admitted she was still salty over the 1988 Tony Awards. Lupone was considered a favorite to take home the Best Actress in a Musical Award that year for her performance as Reno Sweeney in the revival of Anything Goes<\/em>, only for Gleason to win instead for playing The Baker\u2019s Wife in Into the Woods<\/em>.<\/p>\n On Hot Ones<\/em>, Plaza mentioned that Lupone is a three-time Tony Award winner, before reminding her that she also lost the Tony on five other occasions.<\/p>\n \u201cWhich of the actresses that beat you deserved their win the least?\u201d Plaza asked, with Lupone admitting, \u201cIt would be Joanna Gleason in Into the Woods<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Lupone then jokingly clarified, \u201cI should have won for Anything F***ing Goes<\/em>! I love you Joanna, but you robbed me!\u201d<\/p>\n Gleason was one of very few Lupone targets to respond to the diva, telling The Broadway Show<\/em><\/a> that there were no hard feelings over the slight.<\/p>\n \u201cI love her so much, she can say anything she wants,\u201d Joanna said. \u201cShe went on to win, like, two more [Tonys], right? She did OK. She was very sweet. She also sent me flowers when I won, so she\u2019s a champ. She\u2019s also an inspiration to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Lupone saves her angriest takedowns for the Broadway audience members who don\u2019t respect the live theater environment. In 2009, Lupone stopped<\/a> in the middle of a Gypsy<\/em> performance to call out an attendee who was interfering in her performance.<\/p>\n \u201cStop taking pictures right now,\u201d she ordered, before demanding: \u201cGet \u2018em out! I won\u2019t continue if they\u2019re taking pictures!\u201d<\/p>\n Needless to say, the photographers were promptly shown the door. A 2016 incident involved Lupone literally snatching a phone away from an oblivious Show for Days<\/em> spectator.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel bad for the people who come here to have a theatrical experience and it\u2019s ruined,\u201d she explained to ABC News<\/em><\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t\t
\n Related: <\/span>Nicole Scherzinger Didn’t Talk to OG ‘Sunset Blvd’ Stars: ‘Too Nervous’<\/span><\/a>
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<\/div>Donald Trump<\/h3>\n
<\/div>Barbra Streisand<\/h3>\n
<\/div>Joanna Gleason<\/h3>\n
<\/div>Broadway Audiences<\/h3>\n
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