{"id":3593,"date":"2018-02-05T07:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2018-02-05T07:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:21:01","slug":"patti-returns-to-evita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/02\/05\/patti-returns-to-evita\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti Returns to Evita"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A bit of musical theatre history was made last week at the&nbsp;<em>Grammys<\/em>.&nbsp; Shortly before we went to press,&nbsp;<strong>Patti LuPone&nbsp;<\/strong>participated in a tribute to her nemesis,&nbsp;<strong>Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber<\/strong>.&nbsp; The twosome fell out 25 years ago after LuPone was unceremoniously dumped from the&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>production of&nbsp;<strong><em>Sunset Boulevard<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 despite having a contract.&nbsp; She sued, she won, she never let it go.&nbsp; So, how did this reunion happen?&nbsp; The folks at the&nbsp;<em>Grammys&nbsp;<\/em>came up with the idea and ran it by Sir Andy.&nbsp; His response?&nbsp; \u201cI said that if Patti felt she was prepared to do it, I\u2019d be delighted, and she was, and so there we are.\u201d&nbsp; As Patti said walking into the rehearsal, \u201cThis is a&nbsp;<em>d\u00e9tente<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; Afterwards, Webber said, \u201cThe thing I have to admit I was unprepared for is that Patti\u2019s voice is in incredible shape.&nbsp; I think she\u2019s singing better than when I first knew her.&nbsp; I have to say,&nbsp;<strong><em>Evita&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>is a long time ago now, and none of us are as young as we were, and her voice is like she\u2019s 35.&nbsp; It\u2019s amazing.\u201d&nbsp; Since the&nbsp;<em>Grammys<\/em>, Patti has remained mum on the subject.&nbsp; But I suspect she\u2019ll have plenty to say on the subject during her two shows at The Wallis in Beverly Hills with Seth Rudetsky on February 14<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Tickets are still available at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.TheWallis.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheWallis.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of musical theatre history was made last week at the&nbsp;Grammys.&nbsp; Shortly before we went to press,&nbsp;Patti LuPone&nbsp;participated in a tribute to her nemesis,&nbsp;Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.&nbsp; The twosome fell out 25 years ago after LuPone was unceremoniously dumped from the&nbsp;Broadway&nbsp;production of&nbsp;Sunset Boulevard&nbsp;\u2013 despite having a contract.&nbsp; She sued, she won, she never let<\/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-3593","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\/3593","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=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}