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 Troublemaking actor Shia LaBeouf went berserk in the audience at the Broadway musical “Cabaret” Thurs­day night and was hauled off in handcuffs to a station house — where he told cops, “I’ll f–k you up,” called an officer a “f-g,” and was muzzled with a face mask for spitting, sources said. 
 
 The “Nymphomaniac” star was slapping people on the behind and in the back of the head while smoking at around 9:30 p.m. in the Studio 54 theater, according to law-enforcement sources. 
 
 When cops approached him, he was “incoherent” and “very agitated,” they said. 
 
 He tried to quickly walk away from officers but fell flat on his face, the sources said. 
 
 Police hauled him out, his hands cuffed behind him, as theatergoers looked on. 
 
 At the Midtown-North station house, he allegedly became belligerent, demanding the cuffs be removed. 
 
 “F–k you. I’ll f–k you up!” the 28-year-old LaBeouf said, according to the sources. 
 
 Cops decided to not take the cuffs off the agitated “Transformers” star, and he allegedly started spitting, prompting officers to put a face mask on him. 
 
 LaBeouf then unloaded on the arresting officer and used a ­homophobic slur. 
 
 “I have millions and millions of dollars and attorneys,” the ­unhinged actor said. “I’m going to ruin your career,” he added, then allegedly called the cop a “f-g.” 
 
 One police source said the actor smelled terrible and lied about ­being in the Army. 
 
 He was charged with criminal trespass, harassment and disorderly conduct, according to the sources. 
 
 “Just saw Shia LaBeouf in handcuffs in tears surrounded by 6 police officers outside of CABARET the musical,” tweeted Benj Pasek. 
 
 The actor has had his share of bizarre incidents in the past. 
 
 In January, he was videotaped head-butting a man during a bar brawl in London, according to ABC. 
 
 In February, he was seen disheveled, with a paper bag over his head, at the Berlin Film Festival. 
 
 He was arrested at a Chicago Walgreens in 2007 for refusing to leave the store. 
 
 After Thursday night’s bust, one “Cabaret” actor reportedly joked about it on social media. 
 
 “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your places call for Act II. Also, to let you know, Shia LaBeouf has just been escorted from the building in handcuffs. Yep, that just happened,” cast member Danny Burstein wrote on Facebook, according to the website Just Jared. ||||| Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) 
 
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 He must have wanted fries with that super-sized meltdown. 
 
 Troublemaking actor Shia LaBeouf chased after a homeless man — demanding he hand over a McDonald’s bag in Times Square — a few hours before he went berserk at the Broadway musical “Cabaret,” new video footage reveals. 
 
 “He really wanted whatever was in that bag. He had so much focus … If there were French fries in the bag, maybe he really wanted to eat them, ” a witness said. 
 
 He added, “He was dodging people and yelling, ‘Yo, come on!’ … He was on a mission. It was so bizarre.” 
 
 LaBeouf’s fry-tening public food grab was just a prelude to a far weirder meltdown to come. 
 
 Within a half-hour, witnesses alleged, the actor was smoking a joint and slapping star Alan Cumming on the bottom from his aisle seat at the Studio 54 theater. 
 
 “When the Kit Kat girls came out, Shia was cat-calling — he was vocal,” a source told The Post. 
 
 “During the first act, Alan walks through the house [audience]” as the show’s kinky, bisexual emcee, the source said. 
 
 “He walked directly past Shia, and Shia slapped Alan on the ass. Alan was in character and was very professional. He knew not to engage, and he carried on walking.” 
 
 “Shia was being lewd, grunting and yelling in a lascivious way, ‘Oh yeaaaaaaaaaaah,’” said another witness. “It was really odd and creepy.” 
 
 Then, as co-star Michelle Williams sang her first-act solo, “I Don’t Care Much,” bottles and furniture began crashing. 
 
 “He fell out of his chair, and sent a few other chairs crashing to the ground during Michelle’s solo,” a witness said. 
 
 “It was bizarre — he was so crazy, it was making us all nervous,” said another witness. 
 
 Noted one source, “Shia was escorted out of the show at intermission because he was disruptive. It was not Alan who had him removed. It was dealt with by house management, and the decision was taken to remove him at intermission because it would have been more disruptive to remove him during the show.” 
 
 The cast was hoping LaBeouf would be escorted out quietly, rather than create a ruckus. 
 
 But “this could be good p.r. for the show,” one theater source cracked. “Everybody’s talking about ‘Cabaret’ today.” 
 
 Once in custody, he shouted “F—k you” at cops and tried to spit at them, sources said. 
 
 “This is f—ing bulls—t,” he railed. “Do you know my life? Do you know who the f— I am? Do you know who I am?” the complaint against him states. 
 
 Officers tossed him in a holding cell at Midtown North, where he spent the night, cops said. 
 
 Later, the star began singing a strange, apparently made-up hip-hop song, rapping, “I want to go out. I want to go out,” police sources said. 
 
 He also paced around and yelled at officers who fingerprinted him, police sources said. 
 
 “He accused the arresting officer of being abusive toward him … I guess, in his sick mind, he thought it was the officers’ fault for arresting him for being an a–hole,” a police source said. 
 
 LaBeouf was arraigned — still in his ripped blue T-shirt — Friday morning at Midtown Community Court before Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Felicia Mennin, with a public defender at his side. 
 
 Prosecutors asked for $2,500 bail, but the judge ordered him released on his own recognizance. 
 
 LaBeouf had begun loading up on strawberry margaritas — at least four of them — between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m., while watching the World Cup at the bar at Iguana on West 54th Street, according to manager Carlos Mancia. 
 
 He signed a few autographs, posed for pictures, and was “really, really nice,” the manager noted. “There was a lady with a stroller and he opened the door and held it for her — he was very respectful.” 
 
 By 5, he had taken up position down the street, outside the Three Monkeys bar. 
 
 “He was outside on the sidewalk chatting it up,” said a bartender there. “He was actually quite funny. He was telling people to cheer up. He was taking pictures and videos with people.” 
 
 By 6:20, LaBeouf had apparently worked up an appetite. 
 
 One witness, who works in the publishing industry, was walking home from work with his girlfriend at 6:23 p.m. when they spotted the “Transformers” actor at Broadway and 49th Street, dodging pedestrians to catch up with the homeless man. 
 
 “At first I thought the bum had stolen something from [LaBeouf]. But the bum was responding in almost a joking manner.” 
 
 His girlfriend added, “It was like they were playing tag!” 
 
 The cat-and-mouse game broke out just three hours before the star was hauled away in handcuffs for smoking inside Studio 54 Theater and slapping actors’ butts — including Cumming — backstage and in the audience, police sources said. 
 
 A security guard at the theater told cops LaBeouf stood up in the middle of the performance and began hollering at actors onstage — prompting stunned theater-goers to turn around and stare, according to a criminal complaint. 
 
 The actor was charged with criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and harassment. 
 
 He declined to comment afterward. 
 
 On Friday morning, Cumming joked about the ordeal, tweeting, “@Cabaret_Musical Stage Manager last night at intermission : This is your places call and Shia Leboeuf has left the building in handcuffs.” 
 
 Earlier Thursday, LaBeouf posed with a fan on Instagram. 
 
 Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts ||||| Photo 
 
 The actor Shia LaBeouf was removed from the Studio 54 theater in Midtown on Thursday and arrested after disrupting a performance of the musical “Cabaret.” 
 
 Mr. LaBeouf, the former star of the “Transformers” movie franchise, was smoking and yelling during the performance, the police said. Officers escorted him out of the show during intermission. 
 
 Mr. LaBeouf, 28, was charged with one count of criminal trespassing and two counts of disorderly conduct, according to the police. He remained in police custody Thursday night. 
 
 A spokesman for the producer of “Cabaret,” the Roundabout Theater Company, said the actor was disruptive during the first act of the two-act musical. 
 
 Benj Pasek, who was nominated for a 2014 Tony Award for his work on the score of “A Christmas Story,” wrote on Twitter that he saw Mr. LaBeouf handcuffed and in tears as six officers surrounded him outside the theater. 
 
 A lawyer for Mr. LaBeouf did not immediately return an email seeking comment on Thursday night. 
 
 The outburst on Thursday followed a string of erratic behavior attributed to the actor. 
 
 Mr. LaBeouf, whose films include “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” was set to make his Broadway debut in spring 2013 opposite Alec Baldwin in “Orphans,” but withdrew before the show’s opening because of creative differences with the show’s producers. 
 
 In January, he wrote on Twitter that he was retiring from public life after he was accused of plagiarizing a comic in his screenplay, “HowardCantour.com.” The film, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival before it was released in December, contained uncredited passages from “Justin M. Damiano” by Daniel Clowes. 
 
 Mr. LaBeouf apologized on Twitter, saying that he got lost in the creative process and failed to credit the writer.
– More weirdness from Shia LaBeouf: The Transformers star was handcuffed by police and hauled out of the Broadway show Cabaret at Studio 54 last night, ABC reports. Sources tell the New York Post that the actor was smoking in the theater, yelling during the performance, and slapping random people on the back of the head. Witnesses saw him in tears outside the theater, but he was allegedly belligerent at the precinct, spitting and swearing at police officers, sources say. He has been charged with one count of criminal trespassing and two counts of disorderly conduct, reports the New York Times. The increasingly erratic 28-year-old head-butted somebody in a brawl at a London bar earlier this year—and appeared at a press conference with a paper bag over his head the next month. (Click for more on Shia's night—he reportedly really freaked out at the police station.)