LUPONE STOPS BROADWAY SHOW TO EJECT THEATREGOER
Tony Award winning star PATTI LuPONE abruptly stopped her performance of Broadway musical GYPSY - to eject a picture-taking theatregoer from the show.
Stunned by a patron who wouldn’t stop taking photographs during the second act, the veteran singer/actress demanded the lights be turned on and cameraman escorted out after flashes continued to go off despite previous warnings by production staff.
Lupone stopped singing to unleash: "Stop, stop, stop taking pictures right now. You heard the announcement. Who do you think you are? Get them out. How dare you? Who do you think you are? I won’t continue with them taking pictures.
Get them out." To the music of boisterous applause, she continued before bursting back into song: "Turn the lights back on. They’re right back there. Three times, three times you took a picture. You heard the announcement in the beginning, you heard the announcement at intermission, who do you think you are? This is a theatre.
"I have to say this: We have forgotten our public manners. And we have forgotten that we are in a community, and this is the theatre, and every single one of you, all of you, except for that person has respect for that. And I and the rest of the company appreciate it."
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