Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
#1Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 6:30am
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#2Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:04pm
Patti certainly got the last word in... I love it!
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#2Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 3:03pm
This is why I simply ADORE Patti.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#3Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 4:34pm
The woman is lucky Patti did not give her a knuckle sandwich.
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#4Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 4:36pm
HAHAHA. That is literal perfection. She can do no wrong.
#5Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 4:45pm
Birthday or not...people STOP being rude and show some respect when at any show!
Good for you Patti, you tell 'em!
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#6Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 4:45pm
Along a similar vein, Lin-Manuel Miranda sent a series of tweets chronicling something that happened at the Hispanic Federation Gala the other night, where a youth orchestra from CA was playing:
A story in 5 tweets.
1) This amazing Youth Orchestra traveled over 2000 miles to perform at this gala. This is them. http://www.youthorchestrasalinas.org/elsistema
2) you know how Galas can be. Open bar, politicians networking, dinner. Long story short, people are talking over the orchestra. Awful. BUT-
3) Your hero & mine Rita Moreno WALKS ONSTAGE, stops the orchestra, silences the crowd. "YOU KNOW WHO I AM," she says. Cheers.
4) Rita Moreno elegantly and passionately reminds the audience that the kids in this orchestra, our future, are the reason we are here.
5) The orchestra proceeds to play to rapt silence and a standing ovation.
Rita Moreno: your hero & mine.
End of story.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
#7Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 4:47pm
I'm taking Patti with me everytime I attend the theatre.
#8Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 5:52pm
At one of her first 54 Below shows someone at a side table was using their phone to either take a photo or video of Patti. When Patti noticed them she pointed at them and said no rather quietly. I doubt most of the audience noticed, it was so subtle.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 5:54pm
Normally, she is as subtle as a sledgehammer.
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philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#10Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 6:08pm
I once saw a middle-aged woman do this to Linda Eder at Feinstein's maybe 3-4 years ago, with a big table seated right in front of her mic (remember how small this place was) -- birthday tiara, bottle service, etc. It's pretty hard to rile up Linda but she looked visibly annoyed, sang happy birthday to get the woman to shut up as well. At least they weren't in the back fawning over Larry King or anything. What's up with this behavior in such small venues?!
#11Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 7:07pm
I was there Monday night, and will attest that the article is 100% accurate. Having said that, Patti was more gracious to the idiot woman than she might have been. Since when does the fact that it's your birthday excuse extremely discourteous behavior? I came to see (and hear) Patti, not some woman making a fool of her self and disturbing everyone around her.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
#12Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 7:21pm
Is LuPone mellowing, or is she tired of people asking her about the Gypsy incident?
#13Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 7:36pm
I agree, Raised etc.
And I'm not surprised that LuPone handled it deftly. She's always been the consummate professional.
Pootie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/14
#14Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 7:46pm
I hope this isn't a cue to other rude birthday people that you just have to continually make noise and maybe the star of a show will bless you with a birthday song...
#BoycottTrumplikePattiMurin
#15Patti LuPone Graciously Shuts Down Rowdy Audience Member
Posted: 4/10/15 at 10:22pm
"Since when does the fact that it's your birthday excuse extremely discourteous behavior? I came to see (and hear) Patti, not some woman making a fool of her self and disturbing everyone around her."
I was wondering the same thing! I've been doing my birthday wrong this whole time.
Also it's kind of unfortunate that Patti gave this woman the attention she was obviously craving. I'm glad she told her to shut up, and asked her if she was menopausal, but she still gave her exactly the individual attention this woman thought she deserved.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
