Patti LuPone admits she wanted to call Glenn Close a bitch for replacing her on Broadway

Glenn Close is just the latest actress to get caught in Patti LuPone’s crosshairs.LuPone, 76, targeted Close, 78, in a scathing interview with The New Yorker published on Monday, May 26.The pair’s feud dates back to an incident in 1994 when composer Andrew Lloyd Webber chose the “Fatal Attraction” star to replace LuPone as Norma in the Broadway debut of “Sunset Boulevard.”LuPone had already been starring in the West End production of the popular musical, but Lloyd Webber cast Close in a concurrent production in Los Angeles.Although the “Agatha All Along” actress was contracted to follow the role to Broadway, she learned via a newspaper column that she was passed over for her new rival.“I’d felt rejection,” LuPone told The New Yorker, “but not that kind of rejection.”The pair’s squabble only escalated when, years later, Close sat next to LuPone during a tribute to Broadway star Barbara Cook at the Kennedy Center in 2011.“She said, ‘I had nothing to do with it,’” LuPone claimed Close told her.“I wanted to go, ‘Bulls–t, bitch!’”The Post reached out to Close’s rep for comment.

However, the Oscar nominee wasn’t the only star that LuPone took aim at in her blistering interview this week.Audra McDonald also met the “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” singer’s wrath when Lupone insisted that the “Gilded Age” star, 54, is “not a friend.”While LuPone did not provide any more details about that feud, both she and McDonald have starred as Rose in the popular play “Gypsy.” LuPone won a Tony for the role in 2008, and McDonald, who is starring in the role currently, recently received her 11th Tony nomination for the character.McDonald also currently has six Tony wins versus LuPone’s three.“What a beautiful day,” LuPone told The New Yorker when asked about her Broadway colleague’s performance in “Gypsy.”Elsewhere in her fiery interview, the “Company” actress and singer targeted Kecia Lewis in the wake ...