| re: Did the Sunset Blvd debacle actually make Lupone a Bway superstar? |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 12:34 pm EST 02/16/21 |
| In reply to: re: Did the Sunset Blvd debacle actually make Lupone a Bway superstar? - Michael_Portantiere 10:15 am EST 02/15/21 |
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LuPone's payout was reported to be north of $1 Million. I think she even said something like "$1 Million wouldn't cover it." And, yes, that's a lot of money. But for ALW? He probably dug $1 million out of his sofa cushions to pass on to LuPone. I'm not sure why she was so proud of having scored that sum off someone so incredibly wealthy that he wouldn't even notice the loss. If anyone could afford to buy her out without a second thought, it's ALW.
I imagine that LuPone's payout was probably pretty standard for someone of her stature in a role like that. If her Broadway contract was for 1 year, that's probably what she'd have made anyway over the course of that year. And I don't think that the amount that LuPone would have received is any indication of the evil deeds done to her...it would probably was in the contract from the beginning and something that was negotiated by her agent before any of it ever became an issue. So...a decision was made by ALW and that triggered the clause in LuPone's contract and she got whatever sum had been negotiated. None of it had anything to do with the specifics of how the particular situation went down. |
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