A Broadway star is slamming Patti Lupone for saying the hit present “Hell’s Kitchen” is “too loud” … saying it is a complete microaggression.
This 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 concerning the present.
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Patti has been filmed publicly saying the present — with a primarily Black forged — 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 house owners 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 touch” ‘trigger peformers needed to change what they have been doing at her behest.
Kecia asks for “The Roommate” group to instantly contact the “Hell’s Kitchen” group … as a substitute of Patti going to theatre house owners quite than the present’s creatives — in any other case, Lewis says it is straight-up bullying.
You’ll be able to 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 reveals as a substitute 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 group about Kecia’s feedback … thus far, no phrase again.
