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The Whitney Houston Disease

Filed under: Broadway Babies > Fantasia

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Fantasia, Oprah's gonna be pissed!

Since Fantasia began appearing in the Winfrey-produced Color Purple on Broadway seven months ago, the American Idol winner has missed an unheard of 50 performances. Fifty!!

That is extremely unprofessional and hurting the box office for the show.

On Broadway, when the star of a show - above the title billing - is out, you can either exchange your tickets for another day or get a refund.

Due to her many many many absences, producers have had to give back tens of thousands of dollars.

Sources say Fantasia's out a lot because "she's simply not up to the grueling Broadway schedule."

Girl, then you should have negotiated in your contract that you wouldn't do any matinees!

Broadway shows run eight times a week.

What's even worse is that not only are Fantasia's absences costing the show a lot of money and extremely unprofessional, but she's disappointed thousands of fans.

Many church groups and tourists travel in mass via busses from as far away as Alabama to see the show. To go through all of that and then have Fantasia pull a sick-out? Sucks hardcore!

Get it together, girl. Get. It. Together.

[Image via Celebrity Babylon.]



192 comments to “The Whitney Houston Disease”

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  1. Byotch says – reply to this
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    FIRST BYOTCHES!!!

  2. jen says – reply to this
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    people actually want to see that nasty tranny? she obviously has no respect for anyone. she should be kicked off the production altogether!

  3. joshua j says – reply to this
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    you got to be kidding me this fat monkeys 15 minutes isnt up yet, oy vey!

  4. yeahh says – reply to this
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    laaame.

  5. Bex says – reply to this
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    Wow, I'd be pissed.

  6. PINKY says – reply to this
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    first

  7. CrazyAzz says – reply to this
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    what a fuckin dumbass.
    you'd think the fans would realize after she missed the first 5 shows
    not to waste their damn time or money? what are people retarted???
    they should just fire her ass and not pay her a damn penny!

  8. joao says – reply to this
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    omg!!! 1st!! lool

  9. hi says – reply to this
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    first

  10. Nicole says – reply to this
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    What do you expect? She's a loser. Isn't she a drop out or something?

  11. Tina Phierce says – reply to this
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    She should be happy people are coming to see her, Shoot *o)

  12. King of Mean says – reply to this
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    Maybe she's out because she's still learning how to read.

  13. sunflowerbeams says – reply to this
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    TOP 10

    and WHERE is that picture of her from/when did she post it?

  14. Riny says – reply to this
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    Ewwww Im going to be sick :S:S
    juck DX

  15. King of Mean says – reply to this
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    Maybe they should have this price list at the box office:
    If Fantasia shows, $150 a ticket
    If Fantasia doesn't show, $50 a ticket, and Fantasia gets fined $100 per ticket.

    It should also be noted on each ticket that $5 from each ticket will go to a fund so Fantasia can learn to read.

  16. lily says – reply to this
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    she's sooo ugly!!

  17. x says – reply to this
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    isn't this bitch illiterate? it's not fair to expect someone who just started learning how to read a few years ago to be able to under stand contract legalese.

  18. BLACK WOMAN SO LAZY says – reply to this
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    LAZY BLACK WHORE!

  19. jenn says – reply to this
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    Does this 50 times account for the weeks when broadway was on strike too? If so that is something to take into account, because all of those tickets were refunded too and no show went on

  20. utkgrad101 says – reply to this
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    I have NEVER thought she was all that. I wouldn't travel as far away as AL to see her. DUH! She can't really sing that good either and none of her stuff she has put out has done like really awesome or anything.

  21. lilac says – reply to this
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    that is the most disgusting thing i have seen in several month. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

  22. jenny says – reply to this
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    That's so sad. Poor girl. :(

  23. alice says – reply to this
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    Does anyone expect anything more from this girl? She is trash and she has never claimed to be otherwise.

  24. Andie says – reply to this
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    Yes, Fantasia. GET IT TOGETHER! You DO NOT fuck with Oprah. She will bury you.

  25. rachel says – reply to this
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    that bitch is fucking ugly and untalented. you couldn't pay me to watch that worthless piece of shit.

  26. WTf says – reply to this
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    why isnt she fired? i would be if i didnt show up for 50 days at work!
    she is not a diva, she cant pull that crap.. her skanky ass should be thankful to be there at all!!

  27. Kelly S says – reply to this
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    FIRE HER

  28. Ann-Elizabeth says – reply to this
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    Is that picture for real? Where did it come from? She nasty.

  29. antonio says – reply to this
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    whar do u expect from someone who can't pronoune BROADWAY. She says BRAWWAY in the commerecials.

  30. Mama says – reply to this
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    Although my situations have been with Broadway Across America in the Midwest (traveling Broadway shows), and not in NYC, it is terribly disapointing to go to a show expecting to see a particular preformer, only to have their understudy do the show. I've had it happen twice, but not known it was an issue until seated, when a little slice of paper flutters out of the program saying - woops! no star tonight. Theater is a TOUGH job … nonstop and exhausting and newbies need to be prepared by agents/co-workers/directors before signing on.

  31. maryann says – reply to this
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    Here's a solution… fire her ass! I'm sure there is an adequate person who would kill to take Fantasia's spot… that person would probably play the role better!

  32. perezh8r says – reply to this
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    Cash Warren, 28, was a director’s assistant on the Fantastic Four set when he and Alba first met in 2005. He grew up in LA, went to high school with Kate Hudson, played on the same high school basketball team as Barron Davis and graduated from Yale University in 2002.

    i.e. socially and morally more successful than you Perez. And with a beautiful woman to boot.

    Now let's talk about your hair. Tell me what screams non-latino. Pink hair? Yup!

  33. Reverend Ramona says – reply to this
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    They should just make Kim Fields her understudy. I hear she works cheap and I bet those church folks who took the bus from wherever would rather see Tootie play the part anyhow. I know I would.

  34. lickety split says – reply to this
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    just glad i haven't had breakfast yet or else it would be all over my computer right now. this should have been filed under "if you are easily offended"

  35. hey says – reply to this
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    That's what happens when you try to turn someone so ghetto into someone famous. This is probably a perfect example of why she's illiterate.. and didn't she have a kid when she was like 13 or 14 years old?
    Once ghetto, always ghetto.

  36. Kaimosae says – reply to this
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    Wow! And it is such a great opportunity too. She's basically slapping Oprah in the face. Oprah took a chance with her and for her to just so blatantly disrespect someone like that….wow! It shows you that she'd much rather be a whore (w/ that god awful picture) than be a shining positive example for her daughter. Sad.

  37. auntie clara says – reply to this
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    Fact of the matter is that Blacks have no work ethic. They figure, their people worked hard enough when they were slaves…now they get to sit on their rumps and collect..because they expects it. They do not like white people telling them what to do. Just give her back her crack pipe.

  38. Scott R says – reply to this
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    She is a bigger disappointment than Taylor Hicks.

  39. Go AwAY says – reply to this
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    This ghetto ass broad should have never become famous. She is a worthless piece of shit.

  40. JSW says – reply to this
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    OH GOD,THAT NASTY BITCH SOULD BE FIRED,WHO WOULD WANT TO SEE HER ANY WAY.SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE USED TO BE A MAN.

  41. WE tHe PeOpLe says – reply to this
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  42. jen says – reply to this
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    My mothers friend saw the play twice…one with Fantasia and once with her unerstudy and said the understudy was much much better!

  43. Jann says – reply to this
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  44. "The Colored People": Starring 'BIG' FANNYTASIA says – reply to this
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    Why is it that so often a 'nobody' finally gets to the opportunity to reach the pinnacle of success and just fucking blows it. At least Whitney was a superstar before she 'cracked' up and imploded with BB. This baboon-ass big-star-wannabe gets a chance of a lifetime and can't be bothered with showing up to do the contractual work she signed up to do. She needs to go back to North Carolina and sing karaoke to the fucking pigs. FREE YOURSELF honey and take your screaming ass back to the hills and fulfill everyone's Fantasia fantasy.

  45. Arthur says – reply to this
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    I saw the Color Purple this past summer it was actually Fantasia's first show back and wouldn't you know that she called out sick for the second act. It was embarrassing because I had friends in town and they stayed an extra night just to watch Fantasia .

  46. JoshEastVillage says – reply to this
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    Perez,

    I realize you're a blogger and can do whatever you want… but it makes me nervous when you lift ENTIRE sentences from an article and don't use quotes, passing it off as your own, and incorporating someone else's writing into your own entry…slippery slope, my friend.

  47. EILEEN FJORD says – reply to this
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    Is ANYBODY surprised at her unprofessional behavior? I saw Lauren Bacall on Broadway a couple of years ago, went to NY just to see her, and of course she did she show. She's a legend. Fantasia's a flash in the pan. She's really the bottom of the barrel. No wonder Ape-rah likes her–she looks a lot like Obama in the face but the body type's all different since he's man-o-rexic and Fanny never misses a meal. Oh, plus she's a girl, I forgot that part.

  48. nadine says – reply to this
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    Who is this retard taking a picture of her own a s s ?

  49. Larry Fine says – reply to this
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    this is the honest truth, I saw her outside after a CP performance about two months ago. She was "too busy" trying to sweet talk some other white girl that was acting like she was drugged out or drunk, to talk to the fans or sign autographs. Honestly it looked smelled really fishy to me. Was it a lovers spat? She is a really weird person. Her short lived fame is almost, almost, almost……..up.

  50. NB says – reply to this
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    I heard a few months ago before all of this that she was with child. I wonder if this is the reason. She better get it together it, she broke the mold and she better get back on track before she folds and hits bottom…

  51. Hal R Hosfeld says – reply to this
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    The fat negro hootchie-mamas should all be sent back to Africa with their relatives so we ACTUAL humans don't have to look at their ape-like faces and ugly niglets anymore.

  52. cool whip says – reply to this
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    Yep, she pulled that shit the night I went to the show. F-ing Bitch! She lost a fan that day.

  53. TorontoPerezFan says – reply to this
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    Why does fame always go to their heads?
    She has a child to support.

  54. morgen says – reply to this
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    Why the big surprise? Look at how little she works to begin with!! Why would anyone think she could pull off Broadway? She's undisciplined, uneducated and a total mess. Oprah, get your head together and stop thinking just because she's a young black woman she could play the part. While you're at it, why don't you call Whitney, Mirah or Toni Braxton and see if they've pulled it together as well!!!

  55. jflkjsfk says – reply to this
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    Please! What did ANYONE expect from this ghetto trash no talent loser?

  56. elle says – reply to this
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    Fantasia being in the show recoupped the $11 million and more for the year. Lachanze missed as many days as she. she is human and is not made of a dayum machine. people get sick.

    To all the trailor park trash making comments, at least she has done something with her life instead of sittin at home all day making racist remarks toward other people.

    What a bunch of degenerate cows and Perez being the head cow you ugly fuck!

  57. shocked and appalled says – reply to this
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    these comments are beyond offensive. seriously you would never say these things out loud or ever own up to them so please don't make these remarks here!

  58. GeorgiaGirl says – reply to this
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    Whoeve thought this piece of gutter trash would be worth a sh!t should be fired. You can take the ho from the hood but you can't take the hood from the ho.

  59. whatever says – reply to this
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    They're just mad because Fantasia got some of the THE BEST reviews ever. They don't like that she's being called a Broadway legend.

    That girl has been working non-stop since winning AI so I hardly think she's lazy. Get over it. She'll be around for a long time.

  60. Britney Felches Donkeys says – reply to this
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    She looks like a baboon during mating season: pink ass up and hoping for a baby!

  61. FANNY-PACK says – reply to this
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    SORRY GUYS…FANNY (PACK) IS GHETTO AND UNPROFESSIONAL

  62. Rebel in GA says – reply to this
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    The only fans of this bootlipped, nappy-headed monkey are other Alabama Porch-Monkeys. Who cares if she disappoints them?

  63. cornholer says – reply to this
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    Ruben Studdard, Taylor Hicks and this fat trannie are the embarrassments to AI. Her albums have been disappointments and Oprah decided to cast her in The Color Purple even after seeing her "act" in that Lifetime movie based on her life? Is Oprah losing her mind? I loved The Color Purple movie and play but wouldn't pay money to see this rude talentless spider monkey in it.

  64. 2ofakind says – reply to this
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    Re: elle – What a wonderfully perspicuous post. HMMMM! The show broke even and even made some money. Another cast member is as damned lazy as she is so that makes it ok to screw the public. And you, sitting there on your fat lazy ass at the keyboard, criticizes somebody else for doing the same. You are a truly deluded, excuse-making, sorry ass. Guess you 'identify' with the trials and tribulations of poor Fantasia 'Burrito'? Whine, bitch, complain and blame everybody else for your own faults. Birds of a feather, blathering bitch.

  65. joanna says – reply to this
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    You people are so racist yet you spend all day pretending you're Not around people in the real world. Such is the power of being in cyberland, anonymity make even the weak feel powerful. Sick and hateful comments. Perez breeds that type of behavior. He knows how you jerks are gonna respond. You make me even sadder to be an american.

  66. HASBEEN says – reply to this
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    EHMM EXCUSE ME BUT WHO SERIOUSLY GIVES A FUCK? THIS IS JUST SOME NAPPY-HEADED WHORE WITH LOW IQ. SHE HAS NO FUCKIN TALENT OF ANY KIND - ONLY THING SHE CAN PROBABLY HANDLE IS MAN COCKS. FUCKIN STUPID WOMAN. FUCKIN HASBEEN I FUCKIN DESPISE HER. AND OPRAH FUCKIN IDIOT TOO - THAT BITCH HAS SOME FLAT FACE. KINDA REMIND ME OF THAT ONE DOG SPECIES, BULLDOG OR SOMETHING YOU KNOW THE ONES WITH THEM FLAT FACES - THATS OPRAH RIGHT THERE. FUCKIN STUPID OPRAH HASBEEN I FUCKIN HATE THESE PEOPLE

  67. Sam says – reply to this
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    Just because you can put a baboon in clothing does not make it a person. TNB!

  68. Susan says – reply to this
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    I saw Fantasia in The Color Purple in September '07 and she was amazing! Her acting and singing were breathtaking. (This is besides the point but I'm Asian, in my mid-20s, and a life-long New Yorker.)

    Her performance alone made it one of the best Broadway plays I had ever seen, and I had seen a lot of shows. I recently saw The Little Mermaid and Young Frankenstein on Broadway (both must sees) and Fantasia was by far the most talented actress/actor around.

  69. Danielle says – reply to this
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    she looks like shrek

  70. Mooka says – reply to this
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    THERE IS NO REASON TO USE PROFANITY AND IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN FANTASIA ON BROADWAY LIKE I HAVE YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY ANYTHING. EVERYONE WAS TOUCHED BY HER PERFORMANCE MOST WERE CRYING AT THE END. SO STOP HATING ON HER BECAUSE I DOUBT ANY OF YOU COULD EVEN SAY YOUR NAME ON THE BROADWAY STAGE!

  71. Myriam C Webster says – reply to this
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    SHE LOOKS LIKE THAT CHEESY BIGFOOT FOOTAGE FROM THE '70S WHERE HE'S LOLLYGAGGING THROUGH THE FOREST AND LOOKS BACK. MAYBE THAT SHOULD BE HER NEXT ROLE. NEVER KNOW, SHE'D PROBABLY WIN THE OSCAR, LIKE JENNIFER HUDSON RIVER BARGE (yes, her name was shortened for show biz)! OH, AND A BIG OLE SHOUT OUT TO justjak!

  72. Pootytang says – reply to this
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    Re: auntie clara – Wow, are you that stupid? She works for Oprah! Unless Oprah turned white, you don't know what the hell you're talking about, do you?

  73. Pootytang says – reply to this
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    She's preggers!! The show is almost over anyway!!

  74. C E L I N E (the fashion house, not the singer) says – reply to this
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