{"id":2856,"date":"2017-06-12T06:17:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2017-06-12T06:17:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:17:22","slug":"spacey-didnt-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/spacey-didnt-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacey Didn&#8217;t Come Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m coming out&#8230;no, wait&#8230;I&#8217;m going into makeup.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Kevin Spacey <\/strong>sings from <strong><em>Sunset Boulevard<\/em><\/strong> during his <em>Tony Awards <\/em>opening number.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThere were quite a few &#8220;coming out&#8221; jokes.&nbsp; P.S.&nbsp; He didn&#8217;t.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This column went out in the middle of the <em>Tony Awards<\/em>.&nbsp; The sight of <strong>Andrew Rannells<\/strong>&#8216; HD-enhanced basket reminded me how much my readers enjoy the theatre &#8211; and all the charming people in it.&nbsp; With the success of <strong><em>Kinky Boots<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Cyndi Lauper <\/strong>is ready to tackle her next show.&nbsp; And she&#8217;s certainly picked a doozy.&nbsp; <strong><em>Working Girl<\/em><\/strong> told the story of a young girl with big dreams and big hair trying to make it out of the secretarial pool and into corporate America.&nbsp; Since the movie came out in 1988 &#8211; Cyndi&#8217;s heyday &#8211; it sounds like a match made in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>The musicalized version of <strong><em>Pretty Woman<\/em><\/strong> has a development workshop scheduled for this fall.&nbsp; And in a stroke of luck (for them), my dear <strong>Jerry Mitchell <\/strong>will direct and choreograph.&nbsp; They are looking at a late 2018 launch.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes workshops are done for a new show so prospective investors can see if it&#8217;s something they want to put money in.&nbsp; But sometimes revivals of older shows get workshops, too.&nbsp; My interest was piqued when I heard that an industry-only staged reading of the musical <strong><em>I Can Get It For You Wholesale<\/em><\/strong> took place this past week.&nbsp; What do we really know about this show?&nbsp; Other than Miss Marmelstein and that chair?&nbsp; Nothing!&nbsp; I&#8217;m mildly intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m coming out&#8230;no, wait&#8230;I&#8217;m going into makeup.&#8221; \u2013 Kevin Spacey sings from Sunset Boulevard during his Tony Awards opening number.&nbsp; There were quite a few &#8220;coming out&#8221; jokes.&nbsp; P.S.&nbsp; He didn&#8217;t. This column went out in the middle of the Tony Awards.&nbsp; The sight of Andrew Rannells&#8216; HD-enhanced basket reminded me how much my readers<\/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-2856","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\/2856","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=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}