{"id":15259,"date":"2020-08-24T01:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T08:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=15259"},"modified":"2020-08-24T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:12:00","slug":"billy-masters-reunions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/08\/24\/billy-masters-reunions\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Masters Reunions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8M1ufBEejI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To maneuver these crazy days, one needs a steady hand.&nbsp; And that\u2019s what we deliver on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 every Tuesday and Thursday at 3PM Eastern \/ Noon Pacific.&nbsp; This week\u2019s guests are author <strong>Christopher Rice <\/strong>on Tuesday and <strong><em>Funny Gay Males <\/em><\/strong>on Thursday.&nbsp; Last week featured two huge episodes.&nbsp; On Tuesday, we paid tribute to <strong><em>Naked Boys Singing!<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 the musical review which started in 1998 as a way to keep West Hollywood\u2019s <em>Celebration Theatre <\/em>afloat.&nbsp; Former artistic director <strong>Bob Schrock <\/strong>joined composers <strong>David Pevsner <\/strong>and <strong>Mark Winkler<\/strong>, choreographer <strong>Travis Payne<\/strong>, publicity guru <strong>Ken Werther<\/strong>, and original stars <strong>Brian Beacock <\/strong>and <strong>Tod Macofsky <\/strong>for a trip down memory lane.&nbsp; Check it out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>YouTube.com\/BillyMastersTV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, we had a first \u2013 <strong>Nikki Blonsky<\/strong>, Tracy in the film adaptation of the musical <strong><em>Hairspray<\/em><\/strong>, alongside the Link of the television version, <strong>Garrett Clayton<\/strong>.&nbsp; And what an amazing show it was.&nbsp; The two of them had never even met before \u2013 but both were fans of the other.&nbsp; We also discussed Nikki\u2019s coming out video, and the <em>YouTube <\/em>channel Garrett started with his <em>fianc\u00e9 <\/em><strong>Blake <\/strong>called <strong><em>A Gay in the Life<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Since the show made its <em>Broadway <\/em>bow 18 years ago last week, we had to do something special.&nbsp; In addition to having stars of the film and TV version, we were joined by <strong>Linda Hart <\/strong>(the original Velma on <em>Broadway<\/em>), <strong>Bruce Vilanch <\/strong>(original Edna for the National Tour and a <em>Broadway <\/em>replacement), <strong>Chester Gregory <\/strong>(replacement Seaweed on <em>Broadway <\/em>and National Tour), <strong>Charlo Crossley <\/strong>(original Motormouth Mable for the National Tour), and the marvelous <strong>Marc Shaiman <\/strong>\u2013 composer and co-lyricist.&nbsp; We even did a scene from the show \u2013 with me again playing Penny (for obvious reasons) as well as Amber\u2026because if someone was gonna play Garrett Clayton\u2019s love interest, it was gonna be me.&nbsp; It was a VERY special episode, which you can watch (along with all our shows) 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\/jnbh4os7bgI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To maneuver these crazy days, one needs a steady hand.&nbsp; And that\u2019s what we deliver on Billy Masters LIVE \u2013 every Tuesday and Thursday at 3PM Eastern \/ Noon Pacific.&nbsp; This week\u2019s guests are author Christopher Rice on Tuesday and Funny Gay Males on Thursday.&nbsp; Last week featured two huge episodes.&nbsp; On Tuesday, we paid<\/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-15259","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\/15259","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=15259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15376,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259\/revisions\/15376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}