{"id":2417,"date":"2016-12-12T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2016-12-12T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T11:00:23","slug":"tracy-turnblad-cougar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/tracy-turnblad-cougar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Turnblad &#8211; Cougar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Garrett Clayton <\/strong>sang and danced the role great.\u00a0 But can we please get back to the archetype set by the unsurpassed <strong>Matthew Morrison<\/strong>, <em>Broadway<\/em>&#8216;s original Link?\u00a0 Now, THAT was sex on a stick!\u00a0 And whose bright idea was it to have <strong>Darren Criss <\/strong>take us out of the show at every commercial?\u00a0 Wrong!\u00a0 There were some technical issues.\u00a0 Some were on the fly &#8211; like the giant <em>Ultra Clutch <\/em>can that rolled out with the door open.\u00a0 Chenoweth altered her lines asking what was in there, while trying gallantly to close the door with her foot (the West Coast didn&#8217;t see this since the dress rehearsal footage was dropped in).\u00a0 Many scenes were badly lit, and singers often sang in the dark &#8211; most notably while Tracy&#8217;s walking to school during &#8220;Good Morning Baltimore&#8221;.\u00a0 I know this was live, but there must be some lights on the <em>Universal <\/em>backlot.\u00a0 At least give Tracy a flashlight!\u00a0 Ultimately, none of that mattered.\u00a0 The real star of the show was the show itself.\u00a0 <strong>Marc Shaiman <\/strong>and <strong>Scott Wittman <\/strong>wrote a musical that is as tuneful as it is relevant.\u00a0 It sounded great and proved that, as always, you can&#8217;t stop the beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrett Clayton sang and danced the role great.\u00a0 But can we please get back to the archetype set by the unsurpassed Matthew Morrison, Broadway&#8216;s original Link?\u00a0 Now, THAT was sex on a stick!\u00a0 And whose bright idea was it to have Darren Criss take us out of the show at every commercial?\u00a0 Wrong!\u00a0 There were<\/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-2417","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\/2417","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=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}