Patti LuPone and Andrew Lloyd Webber | 66

Diss and Tell

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.2 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Patti LuPone has always been known as one of the highest-key divas on Broadway - pausing shows mid-performance to call out audience members for being on their phones, and beefing with Madonna and Trump alike. But of all the feuds she’s participated in, nothing tops her decades-long rivalry with former collaborator and musical legend Andrew Lloyd Webber. Known as one of theater’s biggest feuds of all time, this spat will take us through iconic show recasts, a million dollar lawsuit, and even the construction of “The Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool”, a literal pool Patti commissioned in her backyard just to spite the composer. Let’s take a deeper look at these two Broadway stars and see just went down in one of drama’s biggest dramas.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Diss and Tell early and ad-free right now.
0:05.4	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.6	Sydney, have you ever been in a situation where you have been recast?
0:20.1	You got hired and then they were like, guess what?
0:23.1	We found someone better.
0:24.7	I want to say yes.
0:26.5	I've definitely had instances where they're like, we actually decided that we need to cut
0:31.7	everything that your character says for the most part.
0:34.8	Sorry.
0:36.8	So you got severely downcast.
0:39.9	Yeah.
0:40.5	Yeah, it hurts.
0:41.7	I wouldn't know.
0:42.6	No.
0:43.1	Because it's never happened to me, but I don't put myself in a position to be disappointed.
0:48.3	Oh, okay.
0:49.4	Thank you for that wisdom.
0:52.4	It's not a great outlook on life.
0:54.7	But, I mean, if you are the opposite, if you have such lofty goals, you're in for disaster
1:00.1	if stuff goes wrong, which is kind of what happens in this episode.
1:04.6	Ooh, the life of an actor.
1:07.0	The life of anybody in Hollywood or on Broadway.
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