{"id":1790,"date":"2016-03-28T02:24:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T09:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2016-03-28T02:24:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T09:24:44","slug":"adam-lambert-turns-down-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/adam-lambert-turns-down-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Lambert Turns Down Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adam Lambert <\/strong>has\u00a0had one of the most erratic career trajectories I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 After languishing for years in musical theatre, he enjoyed a meteoric rise on <strong><em>American Idol<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 He may have come in second, but trumped <strong>Kris Allen <\/strong>in his post-<em>AI <\/em>career.\u00a0 Then, the inevitable lull.\u00a0 He rebounded as the front man for a reconstituted <strong><em>Queen<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 It brought him a huge payday.\u00a0 But without new material of his own, he risked becoming a tribute artist.\u00a0 His most recent solo effort was well-received, but the ensuing tour did poorly &#8211; many dates played to paltry audiences even after tickets were discounted to low double-digits on <em>Goldstar<\/em>.\u00a0 Now he prepares to fill yet another legendary singer&#8217;s shoes &#8211; <strong>Meat Loaf<\/strong>&#8216;s in <strong><em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 But Adam claims this wasn&#8217;t the role <em>FOX<\/em> wanted him to play.\u00a0 &#8220;They actually asked me early on &#8211; this is sometime last year &#8211; to look at the role of Frank-N-Furter.\u00a0 I was really flattered, and I thought, yeah, that could be quite fun.\u00a0 But [with my] schedule, [it was] just not looking likely.\u00a0 And on a side note, I kind of felt like in 2016, to be cis and playing the role of a trans character, it felt inappropriate to me&#8230;I think casting <strong>Laverne <\/strong>[<strong>Cox<\/strong>] was so brilliant.&#8221;\u00a0 Because, eh, transvestite, transsexual&#8230;it&#8217;s all the same, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Lambert has\u00a0had one of the most erratic career trajectories I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 After languishing for years in musical theatre, he enjoyed a meteoric rise on American Idol.\u00a0 He may have come in second, but trumped Kris Allen in his post-AI career.\u00a0 Then, the inevitable lull.\u00a0 He rebounded as the front man for a reconstituted<\/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-1790","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\/1790","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=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}