{"id":14518,"date":"2020-08-17T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=14518"},"modified":"2020-08-17T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:40:00","slug":"huge-billy-masters-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/huge-billy-masters-news\/","title":{"rendered":"HUGE Billy Masters News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hz32f2nw_w4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m calling this <em>Reunion Week <\/em>on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>, but that\u2019s kind of a misnomer.&nbsp; I don\u2019t believe these particular groupings have ever been assembled before.&nbsp; On Tuesday, August 18<sup>th<\/sup>, we pay tribute to the long-running musical review <strong><em>Naked Boys Singing<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 including members of the original creative team and cast.&nbsp; And on Thursday\u2026well, even I can\u2019t believe it.&nbsp; Our special <strong><em>Hairspray<\/em><\/strong> show will include the Tracy from the movie musical, <strong>Nikki Blonsky<\/strong>, and the Link from TV, <strong>Garrett Clayton<\/strong>.&nbsp; We\u2019ll also have some special guests connected with the show.&nbsp; Stay tuned for a BIG surprise or two.&nbsp; Yes, summer sizzles on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Billy Masters TV<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>YouTube<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our shows last week kicked off with the dynamic <strong>Lena Hall<\/strong>, who you\u2019ll remember from <strong><em>Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I knew she was wildly talented, but I didn\u2019t know she was hysterically funny and smart as a whip.&nbsp; Speaking of smart, talented and funny, <strong>Fran Drescher <\/strong>returned to the show on Thursday to talk about her documentary on <em>REELZ<\/em>, her rescue dog, and even introduce us to the workmen at her home \u2013 much to the delight of her worldwide fans who were commenting like crazy.&nbsp; Then, <em>Broadway <\/em>leading man <strong>Max von Essen <\/strong>discussed his livestream concert (which you can see on <a href=\"https:\/\/events.broadwayworld.com\/event\/max-von-essen-8-13-7-pm-et-premiere-event-on-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BroadwayWorld.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>).&nbsp; The icing on the cake was the appearance of Max\u2019s <strong><em>Falsettos<\/em><\/strong> co-star, <strong>Nick Adams<\/strong>.&nbsp; It was a lovefest all around, as you can see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZAg94eO-54Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m calling this Reunion Week on Billy Masters LIVE, but that\u2019s kind of a misnomer.&nbsp; I don\u2019t believe these particular groupings have ever been assembled before.&nbsp; On Tuesday, August 18th, we pay tribute to the long-running musical review Naked Boys Singing \u2013 including members of the original creative team and cast.&nbsp; And on Thursday\u2026well, even<\/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-14518","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\/14518","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=14518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14519,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14518\/revisions\/14519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}