A Broadway star is slamming Patti Lupone for saying the hit present “Hell’s Kitchen” is “too loud” … saying it is a whole microaggression.
Here is the deal … Kecia Lewis — who performs Miss Liza Jane within the Alicia Keys-inspired jukebox musical and received her first Tony Award for it again in June — took to Instagram Saturday and directed an open letter to Lupone about her feedback relating to the present.
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Patti has been filmed publicly saying the present — with a primarily Black solid — is much too loud for her liking … a phrase Kecia says is “racially microaggressive.”
KL speaks on to Patti within the vid — noting the message comes from herself and never from anybody else concerned with “Hell’s Kitchen” — saying Patti reached out to the theatre’s homeowners concerning the sound cues ‘trigger she discovered them too loud and requested them to show it down.
Value noting … Patti’s play “The Roomate” performs within the theater subsequent door to ‘HK’ — with the 2 sharing a wall. So, their theater appears to have the ability to clearly hear the opposite present.
Kecia lays out what a microaggression is within the clip — and, explains that calling a Black present loud in a means that dismisses it classfies as one.
Lewis says feedback like these can reinforce dangerous stereotypes — and, even sending flowers thanking the present for altering it is manufacturing when it did change the cues is “out of contact” ‘trigger peformers needed to change what they have been doing at her behest.
Kecia asks for “The Roommate” workforce to immediately contact the “Hell’s Kitchen” group … as an alternative of Patti going to theatre homeowners reasonably than the present’s creatives — in any other case, Lewis says it is straight-up bullying.
You may hearken to the entire six-minute open letter your self … however, in the end, Kecia says she’d like Patti to apologize — and work to make use of her platform to construct up various exhibits as an alternative of tearing them down.
“Hell’s Kitchen” debuted on Broadway again in April … garnering 13 Tony nominations and profitable two through the ceremony again in June.
We have reached out to Patti’s workforce about Kecia’s feedback … up to now, no phrase again.
