{"id":2491,"date":"2017-01-09T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T23:30:59","slug":"all-hail-king-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/all-hail-king-bruce\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail King Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one is exempt from discrimination.\u00a0 But <em>bon vivant<\/em> <strong>Bruce Vilanch <\/strong>says that he&#8217;s experienced it from an unlikely source &#8211; the writer of the <em>Broadway <\/em>hit <strong><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 After seeing the show, Vilanch had what he thought was a great idea &#8211; he could play the role of <strong>King George III<\/strong>!\u00a0 In the original cast, the role was played by our very own <strong>Jonathan Groff<\/strong>, but the conceit for the show is color-blind and non-traditional casting, so why not?\u00a0 Vilanch shared this anecdote on <strong>RuPaul<\/strong>&#8216;s holiday podcast.\u00a0 &#8220;I went back and saw <strong>Lin-Manuel <\/strong>and said, &#8216;I want to play the King.\u00a0 One costume, three songs that are all the same and no stairs to climb?\u00a0 I&#8217;m in.&#8217;\u00a0 He said, &#8216;We have a casting concept.&#8217;\u00a0 And of course the casting concept is everybody is hot &#8211; everybody is young and hot!\u00a0 There&#8217;s no old <strong>Ben Franklin <\/strong>wobbling across the stage.&#8221;\u00a0 So I was curious about the real King George.\u00a0 During the American Revolution, he was actually in his 30s.\u00a0 Once he hit his 40s, George started exhibiting signs of the hereditary disorder porphyria.\u00a0 This led to him gaining weight, developing gout and, eventually, going mad.\u00a0 So there is a historical precedent for a somewhat plus-sized King George.\u00a0 And nowhere in my research did I see him referred to as a <em>KILF<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one is exempt from discrimination.\u00a0 But bon vivant Bruce Vilanch says that he&#8217;s experienced it from an unlikely source &#8211; the writer of the Broadway hit Hamilton.\u00a0 After seeing the show, Vilanch had what he thought was a great idea &#8211; he could play the role of King George III!\u00a0 In the original cast,<\/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-2491","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\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}