Why Did Patti LuPone Quit Broadway? The Truth Behind Singer's Resignation Revealed

Yesterday, Patti LuPone surprised everyone with her shocking tweet announcing her resignation from the Actor's Equity on Broadway.

At the time, LuPone has not given any further explanation as to how did she arrive at the career-altering decision.

Now, the Broadway icon is finally speaking up on the truth about why she quit Broadway all of a sudden.

Why Did Patti LuPone Quit Broadway?

It was a very eventful year for Broadway fans.

For October, everyone was hit with the huge news that famed Broadway legend Patti LuPone is quitting once and for all.

In a tweet she shared yesterday, LuPone signified her resignation to the Actor's Equity and left outlets to decode her rather vague statements, like she intended to do so.

"Quite a week on Broadway, seeing my name being bandied about. Gave up my Equity card; no longer part of that circus. Figure it out," LuPone said on Twitter.

At the time, the real reason for the quitting seemed to be up in the air, but Playbill notes that LuPone had referenced the heightened chatter surrounding the recent "Hadestown" debacle.

In a "Hadestown" performance last week, an audience member using a captioning device to aid her hearing loss was reprimanded by Tony-winning actress Lillias White twice during a performance.

For context, withdrawing one's "Equity card" or "Equity membership" from the Actor's Equity, which permits performers to perform on Broadway and at many professional theatres across the United States.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE Magazine, LuPone opened up on her predicament.

"They accepted my resignation and told me that if I ever wanted to rejoin, I'd have to be approved. And it's the perfect reason I withdrew from Equity. Fifty years to this year ... I've been a card-carrying member of Equity, and they don't know who I am basically. They just said, 'Fine, but if you want to rejoin, we're going to have to approve you," LuPone revealed.

For those who need a refresher, Patti LuPone was a three-time Tony Award-winning actress and singer. Two of her Tonys are for "Best Actress in a Musical," the highest performance award given to a female artist on the Tonys. She got those from playing the lead on "Evita" and "Gypsy."

Earlier this year, LuPone bagged her third Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the gender-flipped revival of "Company."

What prompted LuPone from resigning is that her name was repeatedly brought up in the past week because of White's incident on "Hadestown." Apparently, LuPone was not happy, to say the least, with the flak she still receives from infamously reprimanding audience members in more extreme scenarios before.

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