{"id":2019,"date":"2016-06-27T02:07:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2016-06-27T02:07:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:07:39","slug":"broadway-for-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/broadway-for-orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway For Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadway&#8217;s most notable response to the Orlando tragedy was the recording of &#8220;What the World Needs Now Is Love&#8221; &#8211; spearheaded by the indomitable <strong>Seth Rudetsky <\/strong>and his husband, producer <strong>James Wesley<\/strong>.\u00a0 The morning after the shooting, James happened to hear the song and thought it would be a great vehicle.\u00a0 He called Seth, and they made a dream list and immediately got on the phone.\u00a0 Being not only well-connected but also well-liked, the duo got virtually every star on Broadway on board (with some notable exceptions that need not be mentioned).\u00a0 What hasn&#8217;t gotten much press are the people who stepped up behind the scenes to make this happen &#8211; including <strong>Kathie Lee Gifford <\/strong>and attorney to the stars, <strong>Mark Sendroff<\/strong>.\u00a0 Everyone was in the studio 48 hours later and within a week of the tragedy, the song sung by Broadway for Orlando was released and hit number one on the <em>iTunes Top Songs <\/em>chart.\u00a0 Proceeds from the track will benefit the <em>GLBT Community Center of Central Florida<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadway&#8217;s most notable response to the Orlando tragedy was the recording of &#8220;What the World Needs Now Is Love&#8221; &#8211; spearheaded by the indomitable Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley.\u00a0 The morning after the shooting, James happened to hear the song and thought it would be a great vehicle.\u00a0 He called Seth, and<\/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-2019","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\/2019","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=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}