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Broadway star Patti LuPone is offering additional details on her decision to leave the Actors’ Equity union after completing her run in Company<\/em> last summer.<\/p>\n

“They accepted my resignation and told me that if I ever wanted to rejoin, I’d have to be approved,” the triple Tony winner tells People magazine in an exclusive interview today. “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.’ ”<\/p>\n

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Patti LuPone Gives Up Actors' Equity Card, Won't Be On Stage "For A Very Long Time": "No Longer Part Of That Circus" – Update<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

LuPone announced via Twitter yesterday that she’d given up her Actors’ Equity card, writing, “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.” The tweet was an apparent reference to last week’s controversy over Hadestown<\/em> star Lillias White reprimanding an audience member from the stage, which drew social media comparison’s to LuPone’s history of similar incidents. <\/p>\n

In a statement yesterday, LuPone said, “When the run of Company<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Equity has not commented on LuPone’s resignation from the union.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

As People points out, Broadway productions can grant guest contracts, but nearly always require Equity membership. <\/p>\n

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