{"id":1613,"date":"2016-01-18T02:46:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2016-01-18T02:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:46:41","slug":"hairsprays-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/hairsprays-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairspray&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NBC <\/em>has announced their next live musical will be <strong><em>Hairspray<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Kinda soon for a new version of that great show, but anything to get the taste of <strong>Travolta <\/strong>out of my mouth, so to speak.\u00a0 I hear that there is already a Link on board &#8211; <strong>Nick Jonas <\/strong>is all guaranteed to reprise the role he played at the <em>Hollywood Bowl <\/em>in 2011.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a no-brainer that <strong>Harvey Fierstein <\/strong>should get the chance to immortalize his inimitable Edna for posterity &#8211; to say nothing of posterior!\u00a0 Plus, he&#8217;s already got an in with the producers &#8211; he revamped the book for <strong><em>The Wiz: LIVE<\/em><\/strong>!\u00a0 While we&#8217;d all love to see the original Tracy from the musical play the role, <strong>Marissa Jaret Winokur <\/strong>has made it clear via <em>Facebook <\/em>that won&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 &#8220;Thank you all for your delusional support that I could play a 16-year-old!\u00a0 We are all VERY excited for &#8216;Hairspray&#8217; on NBC, but &#8216;Mamma I&#8217;m an OLD girl now&#8230;welcome to my 40s!'&#8221;\u00a0 That said, she make a formidable Miss Baltimore Crabs or Mrs. Pingleton&#8230;or the gym teacher!\u00a0 Lastly, I think it&#8217;s obvious that Motormouth Mabel should be played by <strong><em>Black-ish<\/em><\/strong> breakout star, <strong>Jenifer Lewis<\/strong>.\u00a0 After all, the part was written for her, she did the original demos and workshop, and eventually starred in the <em>Broadway <\/em>production.\u00a0 DUH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC has announced their next live musical will be Hairspray.\u00a0 Kinda soon for a new version of that great show, but anything to get the taste of Travolta out of my mouth, so to speak.\u00a0 I hear that there is already a Link on board &#8211; Nick Jonas is all guaranteed to reprise the role<\/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-1613","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\/1613","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=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}