The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with Audra McDonald, and sexy but dumb New York Rangers.

McDonald was just nominated for a Tony for playing Rose in Gypsy, a role that LuPone previously won a Tony for. When the latter was also asked about McDonald’s current production of Gypsy, Schulman wrote that LuPone stared at him for 15 seconds in silence, before turning to look out the window and sighing, “What a beautiful day.”

More than 500 Broadway artists have signed an open letter “calling-in” Tony Award winner Patti LuPone following shocking comments she made in an interview with The New Yorker earlier this week. In the interview,