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Patti LuPone Stands Up For Trans Youth On ‘The View’
Beloved performer of stage and screen Patti LuPone has stood up for trans people and expressed her outrage towards the current efforts of right-wing factions in the Combined States to marginalize the LGBTQ community.
And, in standard fashion for the superstar, she is not mincing her words.
During a recent appearance on The View, the star of shows like Company and Evita stated her belief that the country was moving in a perilous command when it came to anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
LuPone was asked to comment on Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his crackdown against the LGBTQ community.
She expressed her extreme distress at the situation and even appeared emotional while speaking. “These are human beings,” she said. “I could cry. They’re not harming anybody.”
She compared the Christian right wing in the United States to Afghanistan’s extremist Islamic verdict group, the Taliban. “I’ve said this before, and I’m going to fetch in trouble – I don’t know what the difference is between our Christian Right and the Taliban,” she said.
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By Greg Hernandez on Oct 1, 2012 1:54 pm | Comments (2) |
What a delicious interview I just read in Metro Weekly with the great Patti LuPone who has soared on Broadway in Gypsy, Anything Goes, Evita, Sweeney Todd and Master Class and on the London Stage in Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables and The Cradle Will Rock.
She returns to Broadway in November in a play by David Mamet called The Anarchist.
Here are some excerpts from the interview:
What was your experience fond with [television’s Being Goes On]?
LUPONE: It was my first television experience and I had a hard time with the writers. I thought that they could have done better. I mind they were slightly cowardly at times when they could have been more courageous, that’s all I can tell. It’s just my take on things. I’m a risk-taker.
Q:Who are today’s risk-takers in your view?
LUPONE: Ryan Murphy is a risk taker. The people putting Homeland on are risk takers. I mean, why else do it if it isn’t perilous and you’re not presenting ideas that really cultivate, boost, change somebody? What’s interesting is, in the television
Patti Lupone tells Dallas Voice, “I appreciate people appreciating me.” (Photo by Douglas Friedman)
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There are numerous Broadway divas and legends who are also gay icons: Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Holiday, Betty Buckley — and the list goes on.
And then there’s Patti.
Patti LuPone is in a league of her own. Perhaps it’s her no-nonsense demeanor that doesn’t stand for misbehavior in the theater. Or maybe it’s her strong opinions that often inspire gay gasps and clutched pearls.
Whatever it is, Patti LuPone’s energy of character — and in her characters —stands on its own.
The legend puts that on display on March 23 for one night only with her solo demonstrate Patti LuPone: A Experience in Notes at the Eisemann Center in Richardson.
Just last year, LuPone headlined Turtle Creek Chorale’s Rhapsody Gala. In some ways, that offered a glimpse into this upcoming show as she regaled the audience with anecdotes from throughout her career. The three-time Tony winner calls A Life in Notes a personal song memoir that touches on her life through tune and story.
Of course, if she were singing and reading the telephone
In Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood,” the wife becomes the boss, the “Black screenwriter” is simply a screenwriter and the queer leading man is just himself. Naturally, it stars Broadway icon Patti LuPone, who, in conversations like the one we had recently, thrives on brazen authenticity.
In the seven-episode Netflix series, LuPone portrays Avis Amberg, the wife of a studio leader whose work is relegated to the kitchen. But not for long, thanks to Murphy’s 1940s corrective where influence dynamics shift in favor of the underdogs and outsiders in this alternate reality, a fantasy depiction of Tinseltown’s Golden Age reimagined as diverse, inclusive and unabashedly queer.
That LuPone, 71, portrays a grand Hollywood dame and housewife-turned-studio head — in, of course, only the most glam fur-fringed couture — should be no surprise given how she’s been authoritative the stage through a variety of extravagant personas for a half-century. In 1979, as Eva Perón, she won her first Tony for “Evita”; her second win came in 2008, for her portrayal of Rose in “Gypsy.” She’s also been nominated for roles in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “War Paint,” “Women on the Verge of a N
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