Betty Buckley, a Tony and Grammy award winner best known for her work on the Broadway stage, recently took to Twitter to rip Randy Jackson a new one regarding his recent anti-Broadway criticisms on American Idol.

Betty’s entire epic went on and on, so Yahoo! pulled them all together in one spot here for you. Some of Betty’s remarks were geared towards Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe:

“OK, I just have to say this: I am sick & tired of Randy Jackson bashing what they think is Bway singing! It’s soo ludicrous! I have yet to see or hear anyone sound remotely like they are a theatre singer on Idol!! And, further, theatrical singing encompasses every kind of sound, voice & style. He doesn’t know what he’s talkin’ about!! And by these constant disses he is tellin’ Amer. kids that Bway is some kind of inferior art form. Next to jazz, Broadway is the only indigenous Amer. art form & with respect, ‘Dog’, your opinion is whack & uninformed!”

Betty goes on:

“I mean, I respect Randy Jackson & everyone certainly has their own likes & dislikes, but THIS constant diss of ‘Bway’ sounding, to his ear, singers is just so ignorant & stupid that I literally cannot comprehend the producers allowing such mendacity in his remarks! Beyond idiotic!!! And when Steven Tyler remarked, ‘They learn that’, I thought I was gonna scream!! All human voices have vibrato in one form or another! This constant STUPID reference is beneath contempt & I gotta say, too, that all big ‘rock/pop’ shows these days are frickin’ THEATRE! SOOO, Nigel Lithgow & company, in a world that includes an increase in the popularity of musical in general in theatre, film & television America Idol needs to WAKE UP to the truth, voices are voices, singing is singing in all forms, styles & genres. These categories have nothing to do with anything. The Record business in general is in big trouble & why for frickin’ sake would you the creators of ‘Idol’ risk losing & demeaning any well intended audience. You respond to a singer because you hear their soul or you do not! ENOUGH!! I’VE HAD IT!!”

Finally Betty wrapped things up with:

“Oh, & one more thing: Broadway is a place, not a style. At one time, in early days of classic Bway, Rodgers, Hamerstein, Hart, Lerner & Loew, Gershwin, Tin Pan Alley & company one could say there was a style, a consistency in construct. But not any more. All kinds of composers and singers and styles on Broadway. And that’s been true since the 60′s. I would venture to say that the ‘Dog’ & powers that be don’t get much. Write them, people, & tell them how absolute off frickin’ base this is! x”

Lythgoe eventually replied to Betty’s Twitter rant with the following:

“I don’t believe I have ever dissed Broadway either in IDOL or SYTYCD. As far as I am concerned it is a Mecca for talent.”

Do you think Randy Jackson should have been called out for his remarks? Or is Betty off her rocker?