Madonna slammed for controversial behaviour during Broadway musical

A Broad­way star has slammed Madon­na for her behav­iour in the audi­ence while she attend­ed a Hamil­ton per­for­mance a decade ago.

The Hung Up singer, 66, has been crit­i­cised in a new inter­view by actor Antho­ny Ramos, 33, who starred in the orig­i­nal 2015 cast of Hamil­ton.

Antho­ny played the dual role of John Lau­rens and Phillip Hamil­ton in the hit Broad­way musi­cal, cre­at­ed and writ­ten by Oscar nom­i­nee Lin-Manuel Miran­da.

In the play, Phillip, the tit­u­lar char­ac­ter Alexan­der Hamilton’s son, is trag­i­cal­ly killed in a duel. It’s one of the more emo­tion­al moments of the his­tor­i­cal sto­ry.

How­ev­er, one audi­ence mem­ber who was appar­ent­ly unmoved dur­ing the show was the Queen of Pop her­self, with Antho­ny call­ing her out in fresh com­ments.

Speak­ing to Watch What Hap­pens Live, the Broad­way star revealed he was left feel­ing par­tic­u­lar­ly unhap­py by one aspect of the Hung Up hitmaker’s behav­iour.

Antho­ny Ramos had choice words for the Queen of Pop (Pic­ture: John Nacion/Variety/Getty)

He was asked by the show’s host Andy Cohen, ‘Who was the most ter­ri­fy­ing celebri­ty to spot in the audi­ence dur­ing your Hamil­ton days?’ and he didn’t mince words.

‘The most ter­ri­fy­ing was Madon­na with her iPad in her face. She was like this the whole time,’ he replied, as he mim­ic­ked hold­ing a tablet device in his hands.

He con­tin­ued: ‘I was like, “Damn, shorty. If you’re not enjoy­ing [the show] that much, you know the door’s right there. You ain’t got­ta stay here.”‘

Antho­ny (right) starred along­side Lin-Manuel Miran­da in the orig­i­nal Hamil­ton cast on Broad­way (Pic­ture: Nicholas Hunt/Getty)

Madonna’s pub­li­cist refut­ed claims she was tex­ting through the show (Pic­ture: Mar­co Piraccini/Getty)

The tale drew awk­ward laughs from host Andy and a few mem­bers of the live stu­dio audi­ence, with Anthony’s frank response catch­ing a few peo­ple off guard.

In 2015, Lin-Manuel him­self tweet­ed: ‘Tonight was the first time I asked stage man­age­ment NOT to allow a celebri­ty (who was tex­ting all through Act 2) back­stage. No self­ie for you.’

Fans instant­ly began spec­u­lat­ing as to who the celebri­ty could be, which result­ed in Lin-Manuel tak­ing the tweet down, and anoth­er tweet from some­one in the audi­ence only fuelled those fires fur­ther.

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Casey Erin Clark, a stage per­former and singer, said: ‘That time you want to smack Madon­na upside the head for tex­ting dur­ing the best show I’ve ever seen.’

Jonathan Groff, 40, who played King George III, said he was not dis­ap­point­ed at all that Madon­na had alleged­ly been dis­in­vit­ed from any back­stage par­ties.