Posted on 06/15/2017 3:55:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The legendary star of musicals 'Evita', 'Sweeney Todd' and 'War Paint' plays to the cheap seats with a loud assessment of the president.
Patti LuPone has been heard and understood.
The Broadway legend has been venerated for her wall-rattling belt and criticized for her often-unintelligible diction. But there was no mistaking what she said on the Tony Awards red carpet Sunday, when didn't hold back about her feelings for President Trump.
The Tony-winning star of "Sweeney Todd" and "Evita," who is currently appearing in "War Paint," was being interviewed by a TV reporter for “Variety.” He asked, "Why should President Trump come see your show?"
"Well, I hope he doesn't, because I won't perform if he does," she said.
"Really," the reporter replied.
"Really," she said, stabbing the air with her chin emphatically.
"Why's that?" the reporter asked.
"Because I hate the motherf***er, how's that?" she said, with two chin stabs.
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Other Tony nominees expressed quieter disapproval. The “Variety” reporter also queried Denée Benton, nominated for "Natasha, Pierre and the Comet of 1812" (an adaptation of "War & Peace") why Trump should see her show. "Because maybe it would give him a little bit of a soul," she replied.
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In a June 7 interviewed with the "Hollywood Reporter," LuPone was a bit more muted in her criticism of Trump: "I would not perform and they know that. I cannot stand him. Melania, I've got a little bit more respect for. And Melania, if you can hear me, divorce his ass!"
Broadway has traditionally been a demilitarized zone, but the Trump presidency has changed that. Last November, when Vice President Mike Pence was spotted in the audience of "Hamilton," the cast delivered a message about diversity directly to him at the end of the show.
Pence later said he wasn't offended. Trump, true to form, tweeted that his vice president had been "harassed" and demanded an apology.
So far, the president has not ventured a response to LuPone.
Fixed it
My cat was sitting on my lap here at the computer. She took one look at that face and ran out of the room!
Kathy Griffin, Jr?
“If I had a nose like Florine, I wouldn’t go around saying Merry Christmas to anybody.” — Miss Daisy Werthan
Haaaahaaahaaaa....yeah!
Another performer I used to like.
Just one more blithering idiot from the Hollywood/Broadway axis of blithering idiots.
As someone once said, possibly Laura Ingraham, “Just shut up and sing.”
Some of us remember and appreciate all that so many gave after 9/11. The demons of the left have been very active since then, trying to make people forget. Some of us will never forget.
Burning with self-righteous hatred.
She has become what she professes to hate.
Haha, nice little snark by the author there.
If her grandfather, Old Man Freitag, could see this... what is it you always say?... he’d jump up out of his grave and snatch her bald-headed!
They loved Donald Trump when he was a typical NYC Liberal.
When Mr. Trump saw what was happening to this Country and decided to try to fix things, he discovered that all those NYC “friends” never were.
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