{"id":1066,"date":"2015-06-15T00:35:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T07:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2015-06-15T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T07:35:58","slug":"bombshell-hits-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/bombshell-hits-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell Hits Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would think the <em>Tony Awards <\/em>would be the big theatre news from last week.\u00a0 But the awards were trumped on Monday by the one-night-only benefit performance of <strong><em>Bombshell<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; the musical at the heart of the series <strong><em>Smash<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Most of the cast were on hand to reprise their roles &#8211; including the dueling <strong>Marilyn Monroes <\/strong>of <strong>Megan Hilty <\/strong>and <strong>Katherine McPhee<\/strong>, in addition to <strong>Christian Borle<\/strong>, <strong>Will Chase<\/strong>, <strong>Debra Messing<\/strong>, <strong>Brian d&#8217;Arcy James <\/strong>and <strong>Jeremy Jordan<\/strong>.\u00a0 The show sold out in less than an hour and raised over $800K for the <em>Actors Fund<\/em>.\u00a0 The entire evening was rapturously received (you can see some videos on <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BillyMasters.com<\/span><\/strong>).\u00a0 So, where does it go from here?\u00a0 The producers point out that while they have a great score, the book was never fully written.\u00a0 Still, it could have legs.\u00a0 Composer <strong>Marc Shaiman <\/strong>said, &#8220;I would love to do this at the <em>Hollywood<\/em><em> Bowl<\/em>&#8230;Marilyn comes home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would think the Tony Awards would be the big theatre news from last week.\u00a0 But the awards were trumped on Monday by the one-night-only benefit performance of Bombshell &#8211; the musical at the heart of the series Smash.\u00a0 Most of the cast were on hand to reprise their roles &#8211; including the dueling Marilyn<\/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-1066","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\/1066","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=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}