{"id":10100,"date":"2020-07-05T23:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2020-07-05T23:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:02:41","slug":"hairspray-star-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/07\/05\/hairspray-star-comes-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairspray Star Comes Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marc Shaiman <\/strong>is a big supporter of the <strong><em>Black Lives Matter <\/em><\/strong>movement.&nbsp; His musical version of <strong><em>Hairspray<\/em><\/strong> tackled racial tensions in Baltimore, circa 1962.&nbsp; During the climactic \u201cYou Can\u2019t Stop the Beat\u201d, <strong>Motormouth Mabel <\/strong>sings, \u201cAnd tomorrow is a brand new day, and it don\u2019t know white from black\u201d.&nbsp; Shaiman made the following declaration: \u201cBut PLEASE note, in all future productions, the colorblindness that was a goal for many years will be improved, and the lyric will now be \u2018And tomorrow is a brand new day and it sees both white and black!\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <em>Hairspray<\/em>, the star of the film version just came out officially!&nbsp; No, not <strong>John Travolta<\/strong>.&nbsp; And, no, not <strong>Queen Latifah<\/strong>.&nbsp; The Tracy \u2013 <strong>Nikki Blonsky<\/strong>.&nbsp; While this was not news to those of us who know and love her, it was a bold public proclamation from a bold kinda gal.&nbsp; She made the announcement as only she could.&nbsp; She posted a video of herself dancing in the yard along to the music of <strong>Diane Ross<\/strong>\u2019 \u201cI\u2019m Coming Out\u201d.&nbsp; The caption was simple.&nbsp; \u201cHi, it\u2019s Nikki Blonsky from the movie I\u2019m Gay!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, Nikki Blonsky and I excitedly talked about her being on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; Unfortunately, I planned to only feature out LGBT guests for the month of June.&nbsp; So I made a note to circle back to Nikki at the end of June.&nbsp; And then, poof, she came out!&nbsp; We\u2019ll have her on soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Shaiman is a big supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.&nbsp; His musical version of Hairspray tackled racial tensions in Baltimore, circa 1962.&nbsp; During the climactic \u201cYou Can\u2019t Stop the Beat\u201d, Motormouth Mabel sings, \u201cAnd tomorrow is a brand new day, and it don\u2019t know white from black\u201d.&nbsp; Shaiman made the following declaration: \u201cBut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10101,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions\/10101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}