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500 Broadway Performers Sign Open Letter Urging Tony Awards to Disinvite Patti LuPone for ‘Degrading and Misogynistic’ Comments


500 Broadway performers have signed an open letter urging the Tonys to bar Patti LuPone, after she made controversial comments about Audra McDonald.

The open letter has received more than 500 signatures, including those of Tony winners James Monroe Iglehart, J. Harrison Ghee and Maleah Joi Moon, as well as stage and screen veterans like Ephraim Sykes, Wendell Pierce, and Jaquel Spivey. “No artist, producer, director, or leader — regardless of legacy or celebrity — should be allowed to weaponize their platform to belittle, threaten, or devalue others without consequence,” the letter reads. In the same interview she dismissed McDonald as “not a friend” and shaded her performance in “Gypsy” (LuPone won a Tony appearing in an earlier revival of the musical.)

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