{"id":1053,"date":"2015-06-08T04:28:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T11:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2015-06-08T04:28:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T11:28:04","slug":"brandy-wants-the-wiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/brandy-wants-the-wiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandy Wants The Wiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With her current stint in Broadway&#8217;s <strong><em>Chicago<\/em><\/strong> being hailed a hit, <strong>Brandy <\/strong>is looking forward.\u00a0 &#8220;There is a dream to be Dorothy in <strong><em>The Wiz<\/em><\/strong>, and let me tell you, I will give that everything I have.\u00a0 That role &#8211; I just feel like it&#8217;s meant for me to do it, and I don&#8217;t say that in an arrogant way.\u00a0 I say it in a humble way.\u00a0 I just want to feel what it&#8217;s like to be Dorothy.\u00a0 I need to feel that.\u00a0 I need to feel what that&#8217;s like.\u00a0 I worked with <strong>Diana Ross <\/strong>[who played Dorothy in the 1978 film version of <em>The Wiz<\/em>] when I was 15.\u00a0 She played my mother in a movie [<strong><em>Double Platinum<\/em><\/strong>], and <strong>Whitney Houston <\/strong>was my fairy godmother [in <strong><em>Cinderella<\/em><\/strong>], and she sang &#8220;Home&#8221; as one of her first songs to be recognized.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been close to these women &#8211; Diana Ross and Whitney Houston.\u00a0 Diana Ross was Dorothy, and Whitney Houston sang a song Dorothy sang in <em>The Wiz<\/em>, and I just feel like I&#8217;m next in line for that, and that&#8217;s what I want to do.&#8221;\u00a0 Not a very convincing argument.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve met Diana Ross and <strong>Mary Wilson<\/strong>, so I suppose I&#8217;m next in line to be one of <strong><em>The Supremes<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 That&#8217;ll happen when Brandy appears in <em>The Wiz<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her current stint in Broadway&#8217;s Chicago being hailed a hit, Brandy is looking forward.\u00a0 &#8220;There is a dream to be Dorothy in The Wiz, and let me tell you, I will give that everything I have.\u00a0 That role &#8211; I just feel like it&#8217;s meant for me to do it, and I don&#8217;t say<\/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-1053","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\/1053","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=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}