{"id":1264,"date":"2015-08-24T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2015-08-24T04:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:28:09","slug":"hedwig-starring-taye-biggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/08\/24\/hedwig-starring-taye-biggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedwig starring Taye Biggs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taye Diggs <\/strong>has the distinction of not only being the first <strong><em>Hedwig <\/em><\/strong>of color on <em>Broadway<\/em>, but also the <em>Hedwig <\/em>to close the show on September 13th.\u00a0 Producer <strong>David Binder <\/strong>was philosophical about the news: &#8220;When we announced our limited 16-week <em>Broadway <\/em>engagement of <em>Hedwig<\/em>, never in my wildest dreams did I think it would run for a year and a half.&#8221;\u00a0 Ticket sales for Diggs have not been particularly encouraging, and reviews for his performance have been decidedly mixed.\u00a0 NJ.com gave the Newark native a glowing review, titling their piece, &#8220;Why Taye Diggs might be the best <em>Hedwig <\/em>yet.&#8221;\u00a0 However, the <em>New York Post<\/em> called their review, &#8220;Taye Diggs is a drag in <em>Hedwig &amp; the Angry Inch <\/em>&#8211; and not the good kind.&#8221;\u00a0 What I find most interesting is his appearance.\u00a0 I remember how <strong>Neil Patrick Harris <\/strong>actually took weight off his lithe frame to convincingly play the role.\u00a0 Most of the other <em>Hedwigs <\/em>did the same.\u00a0 From the photos of Diggs in his scanties, he looks rather, well, large.\u00a0 Then again, what do I know?\u00a0 The <em>Post<\/em>\u00a0calls him &#8220;buff&#8221;, but I&#8217;d call him enormous&#8230;and not the good kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taye Diggs has the distinction of not only being the first Hedwig of color on Broadway, but also the Hedwig to close the show on September 13th.\u00a0 Producer David Binder was philosophical about the news: &#8220;When we announced our limited 16-week Broadway engagement of Hedwig, never in my wildest dreams did I think it would<\/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-1264","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\/1264","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=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}