Broadway star Patti LuPone is offering additional details on her decision to leave the Actors’ Equity union after completing her run in 'Company' last summer
member from the stage, which drew social media comparison’s to LuPone’s history of similar incidents.ended this past July, I knew I wouldn’t be on stage for a very long time. And at that point I made the decision to resign from Equity.” A spokesperson for LuPone said the actor would have no further comment on the matter.
But today LuPone told People magazine that Equity doesn’t “support actors at all,” and added, “They’re just not good. And I just didn’t want to give them any more money.”“I just thought, ‘This is ridiculous.’ And I don’t know when I’m going to be back on stage,” she said in the interview. “But then the best kept secret is that you can perform without being a member of Equity. Nobody knows that, so I don’t use their services. So, I’m not a member of Equity anymore.
“I don’t think I will be doing eight shows a week ever again,” she said. “Not that I can’t, because that’s what I’m built for. I don’t want to.” As People points out, Broadway productions can grant guest contracts, but nearly always require Equity membership.
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