Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
#1Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 12:48amProps to Sutton. Apparently at Violet this week, tsome people in the audience were yelling over a cell phone and she stopped, looked at them, and said "We'll wait" and then just looked away and waited until they shut up.
#2Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 12:50am
That's not pulling a "Lupone".
If she started screaming at them and foaming at the mouth, that would be a "LuPone".
#2Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 12:51am
CORRECTION: pulls a *mild and incredibly watered down in comparison* Patti Lupone :)
Updated On: 7/12/14 at 12:51 AM
#4Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 1:04am
I want to know why every a-hole who leaves their cell phone on always has the same stupid default iPhone ringtone "marimba." It shouldn't surprise me I guess, since they aren't smart enough to figure out how to silence or turn it off. Changing settings is VERY hard.
Good for Sutton. I wish ushers would take care of things so the performers could do their job.
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#5Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 1:10amNot to thread jack but is Violet planning an extension?
#6Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 3:03am
I feel deeply conflicted that every time a performer chastises an audience member for using a mobile device, I hope someone else is using theirs to record the exchange.
Updated On: 7/12/14 at 03:03 AM
#7Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 7:28amYeah, that wasn't a LuPone. Really, good for her. She was pretty classy about it. What, rude people!
#8Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 7:39am
"Not to thread jack but is Violet planning an extension?"
No. "The Real Thing" doesn't come in until October, but I don't think there is a high enough demand for tickets to extend.
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#10Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 10:59amOh, I thought Sutton was a part of creating a new musical, but when her character comes on, sings one song and dies, she does everything she can to stay out of doing any chorus work, all the while being as demanding as she can possibly be and then acting unprofessionally during the run by missing entrances.
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#11Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 11:51amBased on some other reports, it sounds like it was a fellow audience member who was noticeably taking the cell-phone user to task. It was noticeable enough to get Foster's attention, and she stopped the show to ask if something was wrong. When the audience member said that the woman was refusing to turn her phone off, that's when Foster said, "Okay, we'll wait." Definitely not a LuPone-level freakout.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#12Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 12:03pmThe above is the accurate account, based on multiple reports. This bears no resemblance to the infamous meltdown during "Rose's Turn." Odd to hear the circumstances compared.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#13Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 12:28pmI o-preciate Sutton's response.
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Auggie27
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#14Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 1:02pmThe last word ^.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
ajh
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#15Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 1:14pmSounds like she was a heck of a lot nicer about it than Patti. Both responses are equally valid!
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#16Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 2:55pm
"I wish ushers would take care of things so the performers could do their job."
There's not much the ushers can do until the phone goes off, and then it's too late.
#17Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 3:37pm
" I wish ushers would take care of things so the performers could do their job."
and how did the ushers not "take care of things?"
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
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#18Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 3:57pm
"There's not much the ushers can do until the phone goes off, and then it's too late."
As soon as the ushers heard the commotion, they should have intervened, not a performer. That's their job and I noticed when I was at Violet, they don't really do anything or even try to find cell phones ringing.
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#19Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 4:19pmReally? When I was at Violet, the ushers were all into yelling at people who may have been taking pictures of the theater. Granted, that was before the show started.
"I've got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators and their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes
While you stare at your books."
#20Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 5:04pm
http://youtu.be/WruzPfJ9Rys
Because it's just worth listening to again.
"And each and every one of you has respect, except for that one person!" (and the guy with the audio recorder who put this on YouTube)
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#21Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 5:15pm
"CORRECTION: pulls a *mild and incredibly watered down in comparison* Patti Lupone :) "
Like all of Sutton's performances...
VIETgrlTerifa
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#22Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/12/14 at 8:53pmExcept Sutton enunciates.
"I've got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators and their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes
While you stare at your books."
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#23Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/13/14 at 1:33am
"Like all of Sutton's performances..."
whoa, shots have been fired.
I love them both.
walt1896
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#24Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone
Posted: 7/13/14 at 10:12pm
" "CORRECTION: pulls a *mild and incredibly watered down in comparison* Patti Lupone :) "
Like all of Sutton's performances... "
Yes I am sure Lupone would have made a much better Violet (She just IS that confused Southern girl!) and...
Eponine (Lupone would have made us hear the lyrics of "On My Own" as never before!)
Millie (Lupone would have tapped and sang her way into our hearts as Sutton and Ruby Keeler never could!)
Jo (Lupone was BORN to play her!)
Janet (Lupone has always been the ideal Ziegfeld girl!)
Inga (Roll in the Hay with Fräulein Lupone!)
Fiona... (Lupone simply has it all over Sutton as a comedienne!)
Reno (How dare Sutton play Lupone's role!!!!)
*Thus, my contribution to this post following this board's rules that state that any post that even mentions Sutton must also include a healthy dose of comments on her mediocre talents.
