{"id":3595,"date":"2018-02-05T07:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2018-02-05T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:23:38","slug":"the-go-gos-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/02\/05\/the-go-gos-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Go-Go&#8217;s Are Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I typically would drop everything and jump on a plane to see a reunion of&nbsp;<strong><em>The Go-Go\u2019s<\/em><\/strong>, I had pressing business in California and couldn\u2019t get away.&nbsp; And so, while I may have been absent when the girls took to the stage of the&nbsp;<em>Bowery Ballroom&nbsp;<\/em>in New York City, ousted bassist&nbsp;<strong>Kathy Valentine&nbsp;<\/strong>was back where she belonged \u2013 onstage between&nbsp;<strong>Belinda Carlisle&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Jane Wiedlin<\/strong>.&nbsp; The classic lineup reunited for the official launch of the&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>-bound musical,&nbsp;<strong><em>Head Over Heels<\/em><\/strong>, which is using the music of&nbsp;<em>The Go-Go\u2019s<\/em>.&nbsp; They rocked out to seven of their biggest hits (well, six of theirs, one of Belinda\u2019s) and the capacity crowd ate it up.&nbsp; The glitterati on hand included&nbsp;<strong>Sandra Bernhard<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Debbie Harry<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Andy Cohen<\/strong>.&nbsp; And then it was over\u2026or was it?&nbsp; Two nights later, they did a five-song set on the beach adjacent to the swanky&nbsp;<em>Mandarin Oriental&nbsp;<\/em>in Miami as part of the&nbsp;<em>Broadway Across America&nbsp;<\/em>conference &#8211; where producers promote their shows to theater owners around the country.&nbsp; Kinda premature for a show that\u2019s not even hitting&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>until June, but it makes me happy.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can see footage from the NY show on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I typically would drop everything and jump on a plane to see a reunion of&nbsp;The Go-Go\u2019s, I had pressing business in California and couldn\u2019t get away.&nbsp; And so, while I may have been absent when the girls took to the stage of the&nbsp;Bowery Ballroom&nbsp;in New York City, ousted bassist&nbsp;Kathy Valentine&nbsp;was back where she belonged<\/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-3595","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\/3595","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=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}