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Patti LuPone Reveals Brutal Feud With Fellow Broadway Legend

The star addressed her years-long clash with another Broadway legend.

Broadway icon Patti LuPone spoke out about her falling out with fellow performer Audra McDonald, telling The New Yorker this week that McDonald is “not a friend.” The awkward comment came up when LuPone, 76, was telling The New Yorker‘s Michael Shulman about the “bulls--- that went down” while starring in a two-woman play “The Roommate” with Mia Farrow last fall. The show shared a wall with a neighboring musical, Alicia Keys’ “Hell’s Kitchen,” and it would get noisy. When LuPone called to complain, she was surprised that one of the musical’s actresses, Kecia Lewis, posted a video on Instagram slamming LuPone’s actions as “bullying” and “racially microaggressive.” Then, the Tony-decorated McDonald, 54, gave the video supportive emojis. “And I thought, You should know better,” said LuPone. “That’s typical of Audra. She’s not a friend.” When Shulman asked about McDonald’s current production of “Gypsy”, a show which garnered LuPone a Tony Award in 2008, the star simply stared at him in silence. Then she turned to the window and sighed: “What a beautiful day.” LuPone and McDonald have starred in a number of shows together including the New York Philharmonic’s concert version of “Sweeney Todd” in 2000 and the L.A. Opera production of “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” in 2007.