Patti LuPone is coming back to Broadway — with Mia Farrow — even after she ditched the actors union

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Shucked”), will begin previews at the Booth Theatre on 45th Street in late August and then open in mid-September. Produced by Chris Harper (“Company”), “The Roommate” has signed a lease in Shubert Alley for 16 weeks.While it will certainly be a thrill to see the 79-year-old star of “Rosemary’s Baby” back on the boards for the first time in a decade (her last go-round was in “Love Letters”), what’s really piqued my interest is Patti’s Card.In July 2022, LuPone, 74, very publicly left Actors’ Equity, the professional actors union that a performer typically is a member of to work on Broadway and at many other top-tier theaters around the country. “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 wrote on Twitter, now known as X. So, exactly how will she now be a marquee star of a major play on the Great White Way?

One source said the production will make a “right to work” argument on behalf of LuPone.It won’t be easy. You’ll think it strange!Because, unlike in other states such as Kentucky, New York does not have any “right to work” laws.

There are no legal protections here from an employer’s union requirement for a job. Usually you join up — or do concerts at the Ice Palace on Fire Island and at Carnegie Hall.However, another source said the actress will get away with it.“You don’t need to be an Equity member to be in a play,” they said. “They can’t force her.