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Trepidatious Patti LuPone Raves About Broadway’s New ‘Sunset Blvd.’


"This worked brilliantly," she said. "The whole thing. The whole thing. I was energized when I left the theater. I loved it."

“I loved it,” LuPone told Frank DiLella, the anchor and host of New York’s Spectrum News’ On Stage program, in a recorded voice message. LuPone’s departure from London’s Sunset Boulevard(the title was not abbreviated then) was one of the hottest theater stories of the early 1990s, and led to a lawsuit that Lloyd Webber settled for an undisclosed amount. The good vibes were dampened when a seemingly pro-Trump social media post by Scherzinger was met with online backlash from many in the theater community (she later wrote, “Many presumptions are being drawn, which do not reflect who I am, what I stand for, or who I voted for.”)

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