CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Billboard Magazine reports:

Audra McDonald has responded to Patti LuPone‘s recent disses. Shortly after LuPone said that her fellow Broadway legend was “not a friend,” citing a past “rift” between them, McDonald told Gayle King for CBS Sunday Morning, “If there’s a rift between us, I don’t know what it is.”

LuPone had asked Shubert Organization head Robert Wankel to step in after sound from the Alicia Keys-created musical kept bleeding over from their neighbors, after which Hell’s Kitchen star Kecia Lewis posted a video on Instagram calling LuPone’s actions “bullying,” “racially microaggressive” and “rooted in privilege.”

When The New Yorker‘s Michael Schulman pointed out that McDonald had shown support for Lewis’ video in the comments, LuPone replied, “Exactly. And I thought, You should know better,” LuPone continued at the time. “That’s typical of Audra. She’s not a friend.”

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