Overview

• LuPone told The New Yorker that McDonald is “not a friend” due to a long-ago falling out she wouldn’t explain.
• When asked about McDonald’s current Gypsy production, she stared in silence for 15 seconds before redirecting the conversation.
• She revisited her Hell’s Kitchen noise complaint from last November, dismissing Kecia Lewis’s Instagram rebuke and McDonald’s supportive emojis as uninformed.
• LuPone noted sound bleeding between theaters is typical, saying she contacted the Shubert Organization and later sent flowers to the Hell’s Kitchen crew.
• Online reactions are split, with some applauding her directness and others branding her remarks toward colleagues as unduly harsh.