Patti LuPone‘s decades-long feud with Andrew Lloyd Webber is still going strong.
After learning that Webber criticized her diction in “Evita” in his 2018 memoir, LuPone — who originated the role of Eva Perón on Broadway in 1979 — shot back during a new interview with New York Times magazine, “How could he talk about ‘Evita’? The whole thing is sung. He’s a jerk. He’s a sad sack. He is the definition of sad sack.”
When asked if she liked any of Webber’s music, LuPone, 70, said, “I thought ‘Evita’ was the best thing he and Tim Rice did. But the rest of it is schmaltz.”
LuPone and Webber’s ongoing beef stems back to the early ’90s when he fired her from “Sunset Boulevard” and hired Glenn Close, who won a Tony for the role in 1995.
In 2017, LuPone called Webber a “desperate human being” and accused him of creating a “toxic environment” during an interview with NY1’s “On Stage,” which was immediately taken offline after Webber’s lawyers called her rant “false and libelous.”
However, In 2018, it had seemed the pair had finally buried the hatchet when they met up to rehearse for the Grammys, where LuPone was set to sing “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina.”
At rehearsals, LuPone said, “Hello, Andrew. This is détente, ladies and gentlemen” and then they hugged.
Let the drama continue.