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Patti LuPone Says Audra McDonald Is ‘Not a Friend’ After a Falling Out Years Ago, Stares in Silence When Asked About McDonald’s ‘Gypsy’ Revival

Patti LuPone reveals she is no longer friends with Audra McDonald after a falling out some years ago.

Patti LuPone is not one to mince words, which is why her latest profile in The New Yorker is stirring up buzz among Broadway fans for the revelation that she is no longer friends with fellow stage icon Audra McDonald. The revelation came to be after Schulman brought up a scandal that LuPone found herself in last fall while on Broadway opposite Mia Farrow in “The Roommate.” The play shared a wall with the Alicia Keys musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” loud noises from which could be heard next door. As noted by People magazine, LuPone and McDonald’s history of working together in the past includes the 2007 Los Angeles Opera’s production of “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” and the New York Philharmonic’s 2000 concert version of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” in which LuPone played Mrs. Lovett and McDonald starred as the Beggar Woman.

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