I recall watching LuPone in “Life Goes On” in my childhood—surely something memorable to people of a certain age. Actor Chris Burke (Corky) lived for a time in the Valley. Happy to see he’s still with us.
Broadway was woke long before the Great Awokening (by the way, nice riff on the Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield led Great Awakening in colonial America). At the completion of two musicals I attended prior to 2018, collections were extracted from the audience after the show to assist victims of a disease. Can you guess which disease? Heart disease, America’s greatest killer? Nope. Cancer, the most dreaded of all diseases? Wrong again. Clue: what demographic is vastly over-represented among male Broadway performers? Right, HIV!
Second example: in late 2016 or early 2017, newly elected Mike Pence attended Hamilton! with his family. The all-POC cast thought it necessary to chastise him before the audience.
I’ve attended only two musicals since the Awokening, Frozen, with two granddaughters, and Ester, put on at the Sight and Sound Theatre in Branson, MO. Both were relatively Woke free, other than casting black performers playing traditionally European or Persian roles.
I don't have a pig in this race but 40 years and 10 musicals sounds pretty veteran.
I can sympathize about the noise. You can stop high frequency sound from traveling next door but it would take a reconstruction in a brutalist style to prevent anything below 100 hz from escaping next door.
That means your only option it to turn down dat bass and dat bass is a big part of the difference between going to the theater and listing to it on your phone. So while you're trying feel the emotion of your Chekov play you hear thumpa-thumpa-thumpa
So you ruin one paying customer's experience or the other.
Given Lupone’s other comments in this article about anyone who deigns to object to her political ideology, my response is “couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.” May the face eating leopard consume her face.
A real Sophie’s choice for the gays. Steve’s right that in the art/culture world cancel culture is chugging along. I think the “cancel culture is dead” takes are premature. Will be interesting to see how this play out. My money is on LuPone issuing some luke warm apology. I hope I’m wrong.
lol. Literally the same time I posted this. https://www.instagram.com/p/DKVJvNgPnEW/ clearly the gays have thrown their lot in with the blacks. Of all the things I hate seeing destroyed by the mediocrity of equity and racial takeovers broadway near the bottom of the list.
Hilarious if also a bit tragic. Speaking of drama queens … Has anyone isolated a gene variant that’d account for the diva type, and/or maybe the theater kid type? More funding is needed.
LuPone must be un-personed until re-educated! But that’s not cancel culture, bigots!!
The rancid narcissism behind this open letter is exhausting enough in and of itself, but the deliberate divisiveness is what matters. There’s a class of blacks addicted to producing this stuff and a class of whites addicted to quaffing it down.
They’re all *abnormal*, but alas also often quite visible. Well-platformed.
I grew up in the North but have lived in the South for some years now in an area that’s about 25-30% black. This comes with many of the problems you’d expect, but there’s an ordinariness of social interaction between whites and blacks here that is sometimes heartening to me after I’ve let some crazy crap I’ve read (in either direction) get to me too much. And so it was today, after reading that tiresome open letter.
I suppose that I could paraphrase Sailer himself here: above critique because below agency.
I recall watching LuPone in “Life Goes On” in my childhood—surely something memorable to people of a certain age. Actor Chris Burke (Corky) lived for a time in the Valley. Happy to see he’s still with us.
"500 drama queens" LOL
Broadway was woke long before the Great Awokening (by the way, nice riff on the Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield led Great Awakening in colonial America). At the completion of two musicals I attended prior to 2018, collections were extracted from the audience after the show to assist victims of a disease. Can you guess which disease? Heart disease, America’s greatest killer? Nope. Cancer, the most dreaded of all diseases? Wrong again. Clue: what demographic is vastly over-represented among male Broadway performers? Right, HIV!
Second example: in late 2016 or early 2017, newly elected Mike Pence attended Hamilton! with his family. The all-POC cast thought it necessary to chastise him before the audience.
I’ve attended only two musicals since the Awokening, Frozen, with two granddaughters, and Ester, put on at the Sight and Sound Theatre in Branson, MO. Both were relatively Woke free, other than casting black performers playing traditionally European or Persian roles.
I like how LuPone's snipe evokes stolen valor.
I don't have a pig in this race but 40 years and 10 musicals sounds pretty veteran.
I can sympathize about the noise. You can stop high frequency sound from traveling next door but it would take a reconstruction in a brutalist style to prevent anything below 100 hz from escaping next door.
That means your only option it to turn down dat bass and dat bass is a big part of the difference between going to the theater and listing to it on your phone. So while you're trying feel the emotion of your Chekov play you hear thumpa-thumpa-thumpa
So you ruin one paying customer's experience or the other.
500 divas and a NYT reporter can’t be wrong about whose experiences must be protected, and whose are meh.
All customers are equal, but some are more etc.
No, there is one party ruining the other party's experience: the one making too much noise is entirely at fault. This cannot be hard to understand.
That's Entertainment!
Given Lupone’s other comments in this article about anyone who deigns to object to her political ideology, my response is “couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.” May the face eating leopard consume her face.
A real Sophie’s choice for the gays. Steve’s right that in the art/culture world cancel culture is chugging along. I think the “cancel culture is dead” takes are premature. Will be interesting to see how this play out. My money is on LuPone issuing some luke warm apology. I hope I’m wrong.
lol. Literally the same time I posted this. https://www.instagram.com/p/DKVJvNgPnEW/ clearly the gays have thrown their lot in with the blacks. Of all the things I hate seeing destroyed by the mediocrity of equity and racial takeovers broadway near the bottom of the list.
Again with the “violence”. At this point you can replace it with “poopy” in these kinds of statements to attain the same rhetorical force.
Your language is poopy, your conduct is poopy, if there is a perception of poopiness, poopiness has occurred.
I’m gonna wait to see what Hattie McDaniel says
Hilarious if also a bit tragic. Speaking of drama queens … Has anyone isolated a gene variant that’d account for the diva type, and/or maybe the theater kid type? More funding is needed.
LuPone must be un-personed until re-educated! But that’s not cancel culture, bigots!!
The rancid narcissism behind this open letter is exhausting enough in and of itself, but the deliberate divisiveness is what matters. There’s a class of blacks addicted to producing this stuff and a class of whites addicted to quaffing it down.
They’re all *abnormal*, but alas also often quite visible. Well-platformed.
I grew up in the North but have lived in the South for some years now in an area that’s about 25-30% black. This comes with many of the problems you’d expect, but there’s an ordinariness of social interaction between whites and blacks here that is sometimes heartening to me after I’ve let some crazy crap I’ve read (in either direction) get to me too much. And so it was today, after reading that tiresome open letter.
Patti played a defense attorney in an early Waterston Law and Order. It must have been required for NYC actors, to have the Wolf at their door.