Patti LuPone vs. Broadway (feat. Alex Bedder)
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
We are joined for this special episode with broadway industry expert Alex Bedder to talk everything Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Kecia Lewis, and BTS from the latest Tonys Awards ceremony.
Find Alex Bedder on Instagram and on their website!
About:
Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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Sources:
- Patti LuPone Called Out for 'Bullying' Remarks by Hell's Kitchen Star Kecia Lewis After Dubbing Broadway Musical 'Too Loud' [People]
- Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway—and Almost Everything Else, [NYer]
- Audra's statement [Instagram]
- Broadway's Open Letter [Open Letter]
- Patti LuPone on Broadway [Instagram]
- Renée Elise Goldsberry Reacts to Patti LuPone Drama with Audra McDonald: 'If It Sells a Ticket, Let the Games Continue' [People]
- Audra McDonald Brings the House Down with Gypsy Performance at 2025 Tony Awards After Patti LuPone Drama [People]
- Oprah Winfrey shades Patti LuPone at Tony Awards 2025 as Broadway star skips awards show [Page Six]
- Cole Escola clarifies Nicole Scherzinger 'four more years' Tonys joke [Pink News]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Patty fucking Lepone. |
| 0:04.4 | P-F-L. |
| 0:05.9 | P-F-L. |
| 0:07.2 | P-F-L. Patty-Fucking Lepone. |
| 0:10.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.3 | Period. |
| 0:12.1 | The big motherfucking dog. |
| 0:13.9 | Come on. |
| 0:15.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.4 | Patty Lepone. |
| 0:17.9 | And not only Patty Lepone seeing anyone in any show, whatever. |
| 0:23.2 | Patty Lepone, I read her autobiography. |
| 0:25.3 | Come on. |
| 0:26.3 | Patty Lepone has a very, very intense history with not only Andrew Lloyd-Weber, but with this show specifically. |
| 0:35.2 | And Patty Lepone, Patty Lepone comes to see you in Sunset Boulevard play this role. |
| 0:46.1 | This is, this is like epic. |
| 0:48.4 | That she originated. |
| 0:49.1 | Music. I'm uh, uh, uh, |
| 1:11.6 | uh, |
| 1:12.6 | and |
| 1:13.6 | uh, I was going to start this podcast by doing a number from the musical Sunset Boulevard, |
| 1:44.4 | but I got stage fright in front of our guest, |
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