Patti LuPone is the reigning queen of the ladies who punch. When she’s not scolding audiences for disruptive behavior, the 71-year-old Broadway legend is serving shade to other stars in her orbit.
Whether sizing up composer and oft-nemesis Andrew Lloyd Webber as “a jerk” and “a sad sack” last fall, suggesting Uma Thurman’s 2017 Broadway debut helped “lower the standard” for theater or declaring Madonna a “movie killer” who “cannot act her way out of a paper bag,” she’s always ready to spill some tea.
The diva of dish doesn’t hold back — and we’ll drink to that. In her latest pokes at her peers, the irrepressible LuPone humorously savaged Meryl Streep, Audra McDonald and Christine Baranski for their booze-swilling, bathrobe-wearing rendition