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Over 500 Broadway Artists Sign Open Letter Asking Patti LuPone for ‘Respect’
“Let us be clear: This is about more than one person. It is about a culture.”
The signatories, including familiar names like Wendell Pierce and Lewis’s Hell’s Kitchen co-star Maleah Joi Moon, aver that LuPone’s language against these fellow Broadway stars “is not only degrading and misogynistic — it is a blatant act of racialized disrespect. In case you’ve been living under a Paris Opera House, what you need to know is that LuPone has been receiving criticism from the theater community after she called Lewis a “bitch” and said that McDonald was “not a friend” in The New Yorker. A persistent failure to hold people accountable for violent, disrespectful, or harmful behavior — especially when they are powerful or well-known.” The letter then asks the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League to take immediate action by not welcoming LuPone at the Tony Awards on June 8.
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