Patti LuPone stops Vegas concert, asks audience member to stop texting!

I love this item from Las Vegas-based journalist Steve Friess who was at Patti LuPone’s one-woman concert Sunday night. The two-time Tony winner  who exploded on stage on Broadway earlier this year when someone in the audience took a photo during Gypsy, stopped mid-performance to scold an audience member who began texting right when she was winding up to sing her showstopper Don’t Cry For Me Argentina.

You do not want to mess with Evita Peron!

Friess writes that LuPone “stopped and asked the man to stop what he was doing. She kept her cool and even told him, “I’m not going to yell at you, I don’t think.” Then she proceeded to kindly berate him — she was sweet but terse — and say she was on “a campaign” because such behavior is distracting and insulting to performers.

“The thing is, the people who text, they don’t seem to understand that we can see you,” she said. “If you really need to do that, why don’t you just leave?”

With that, several audience members stood up and cheered her.

“It’s only the minority of people who do this,” she said. “And the thing is, it’s the light of it. The other people around you have got to be pissed off, too.”

I agree!

Plus, anyone who would even dream of texting when the great LuPone is on stage has no business being in her audience.