The fallout from the newest drama within the Broadway world continues to unfold. In case you missed it, Patti LuPone, one of many greatest Broadway legends, threw some fairly critical shade in direction of two Broadway legends in their very own proper, Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis, in a brand new profile in the New Yorker, and Black theater followers and Black celebrities alike are merely not having it.
Kecia Lewis on Broadway Play ‘Hell’s Kitchen’
Fellow actress Yvette Nicole Brown took to Instagram with a put up displaying main help in direction of McDonald and Lewis. “Lemme let you know what we NOT gon’ do… permit the slander of those ICONS. I don’t care WHO it’s,” Brown wrote in her put up, clearly referencing LuPone and her feedback.
“Lawd, my coronary heart is damage by this mess and by who tried it,” she continued. “However then once more, have we not discovered what Malcolm X so eloquently tried to show of us about Black ladies being probably the most disrespected and unprotected group of individuals?”
Brown particularly took the time to name each of those actresses “VETS,” clearly referring to LuPone’s jab within the New Yorker.
LuPone particularly shaded Lewis within the New Yorker profile primarily based on a public backwards and forwards the 2 of them received into final 12 months. Lewis publicly known as out LuPone after she complained that “Hell’s Kitchen” (the present Lewis is at the moment in and received a Tony for) was too loud. LuPone ultimately went to the present’s theater homeowners and even received them to alter the present’s sound cues — actions that Lewis declared as “bullying” and an indication of her “privilege.”
Responding to this within the piece, LuPone mentioned, “She calls herself a veteran? Let’s learn how many Broadway reveals Kecia Lewis has executed, as a result of she doesn’t know what the f*ck she’s speaking about. She’s executed seven. I’ve executed 31. Don’t name your self a vet, b*tch!”
Brown’s put up clearly references this, as she rightfully refers back to the actresses as veterans (Lewis has 10 Broadway credit whereas LuPone has 28), and tells them to “preserve shining.” The put up received hundreds of likes, with Oscar and Tony-winning actress Viola Davis taking to the feedback in help.
“Love, love them,” Davis wrote below the put up. “I’ll combat for them as fervently as I combat for anybody I really like.”
Bernice A. King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., particularly supported McDonald in her personal put up, writing, “Thanks to your artistry, dedication to excellence, and constant daring brilliance. You’re one in every of one.”
Natasha Rothwell (“Insecure,” “The White Lotus”), used her social media to defend Audra as nicely, sharing a private connection between her and the six-time Tony Award-winner. Within the put up, Rothwell recollects when she was in faculty and McDonald visited her faculty and cheered on her fellow castmates in her faculty’s manufacturing of “You Can’t Take It With You.”
“A testomony to her coronary heart— she made it a degree to come back backstage to cheer us on and graciously acquired the tidal wave of admiration that adopted moments earlier than taking the stage herself. Audra had my again approach again then, and I’ve her again now. Periodt,” Rothwell wrote.
Adrienne Warren, who received the Tony for enjoying Tina Turner within the “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” and at the moment stars in “The Final 5 Years,” took to social media as nicely to help each Lewis and McDonald as nicely. “I don’t play concerning the ladies who set the blueprint and impressed generations of artists, particularly, black ladies,” she wrote on Instagram, thanking them for being themselves and shining “as solely they will.”
She added, So many people wouldn’t have dared to strive if it weren’t for you. I thanks, Queens.”
Neither McDonald nor Lewis has publicly responded to LuPone’s digs, not that they need to need to. As we reported, the web and Broadway neighborhood at massive actually appear to be on their facet, rallying behind these two queens of the American theater.
Black Hollywood Livid at Patti LuPone Feedback
The fallout from the newest drama within the Broadway world continues to unfold. In case you missed it, Patti LuPone, one of many greatest Broadway legends, threw some fairly critical shade in direction of two Broadway legends in their very own proper, Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis, in a brand new profile in the New Yorker, and Black theater followers and Black celebrities alike are merely not having it.
Kecia Lewis on Broadway Play ‘Hell’s Kitchen’
Fellow actress Yvette Nicole Brown took to Instagram with a put up displaying main help in direction of McDonald and Lewis. “Lemme let you know what we NOT gon’ do… permit the slander of those ICONS. I don’t care WHO it’s,” Brown wrote in her put up, clearly referencing LuPone and her feedback.
“Lawd, my coronary heart is damage by this mess and by who tried it,” she continued. “However then once more, have we not discovered what Malcolm X so eloquently tried to show of us about Black ladies being probably the most disrespected and unprotected group of individuals?”
Brown particularly took the time to name each of those actresses “VETS,” clearly referring to LuPone’s jab within the New Yorker.
LuPone particularly shaded Lewis within the New Yorker profile primarily based on a public backwards and forwards the 2 of them received into final 12 months. Lewis publicly known as out LuPone after she complained that “Hell’s Kitchen” (the present Lewis is at the moment in and received a Tony for) was too loud. LuPone ultimately went to the present’s theater homeowners and even received them to alter the present’s sound cues — actions that Lewis declared as “bullying” and an indication of her “privilege.”
Responding to this within the piece, LuPone mentioned, “She calls herself a veteran? Let’s learn how many Broadway reveals Kecia Lewis has executed, as a result of she doesn’t know what the f*ck she’s speaking about. She’s executed seven. I’ve executed 31. Don’t name your self a vet, b*tch!”
Brown’s put up clearly references this, as she rightfully refers back to the actresses as veterans (Lewis has 10 Broadway credit whereas LuPone has 28), and tells them to “preserve shining.” The put up received hundreds of likes, with Oscar and Tony-winning actress Viola Davis taking to the feedback in help.
“Love, love them,” Davis wrote below the put up. “I’ll combat for them as fervently as I combat for anybody I really like.”
Bernice A. King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., particularly supported McDonald in her personal put up, writing, “Thanks to your artistry, dedication to excellence, and constant daring brilliance. You’re one in every of one.”
Natasha Rothwell (“Insecure,” “The White Lotus”), used her social media to defend Audra as nicely, sharing a private connection between her and the six-time Tony Award-winner. Within the put up, Rothwell recollects when she was in faculty and McDonald visited her faculty and cheered on her fellow castmates in her faculty’s manufacturing of “You Can’t Take It With You.”
“A testomony to her coronary heart— she made it a degree to come back backstage to cheer us on and graciously acquired the tidal wave of admiration that adopted moments earlier than taking the stage herself. Audra had my again approach again then, and I’ve her again now. Periodt,” Rothwell wrote.
Adrienne Warren, who received the Tony for enjoying Tina Turner within the “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” and at the moment stars in “The Final 5 Years,” took to social media as nicely to help each Lewis and McDonald as nicely. “I don’t play concerning the ladies who set the blueprint and impressed generations of artists, particularly, black ladies,” she wrote on Instagram, thanking them for being themselves and shining “as solely they will.”
She added, So many people wouldn’t have dared to strive if it weren’t for you. I thanks, Queens.”
Neither McDonald nor Lewis has publicly responded to LuPone’s digs, not that they need to need to. As we reported, the web and Broadway neighborhood at massive actually appear to be on their facet, rallying behind these two queens of the American theater.