{"id":3750,"date":"2018-03-26T03:25:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2018-03-26T03:25:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:25:04","slug":"pigs-fly-back-to-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/pigs-fly-back-to-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs Fly Back To NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, we reported about the proposed&nbsp;<em>off-Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>revival of&nbsp;<strong><em>When Pigs Fly<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The revue, written by&nbsp;<strong>Howard Crabtree&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Mark Waldrop&nbsp;<\/strong>with music by&nbsp;<strong>Dick Gallagher<\/strong>, was a sensation and won oodles of awards when it opened in 1996.&nbsp; The original production ran for over two years and spawned companies around the world.&nbsp; So it seemed a slam dunk when this revival was announced \u2013 and even more so when the legendary&nbsp;<strong>Bob Mackie&nbsp;<\/strong>signed on to do the costumes.&nbsp; Then at the last minute, it was cancelled.&nbsp; Allegedly the producers were \u201cundercapitalized\u201d (which means they ran out of money), and the cast and costumes were shelved\u2026until now.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Actors Fund&nbsp;<\/em>is mounting a one-night-only concert on April 9<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<em>Gerald Lynch Theatre&nbsp;<\/em>at&nbsp;<em>John Jay College&nbsp;<\/em>in NYC.&nbsp; The show will feature the new cast AND the costumes!&nbsp; Grab what few tickets are left at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actorsfund.org\/WhenPigsFly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ActorsFund.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, we reported about the proposed&nbsp;off-Broadway&nbsp;revival of&nbsp;When Pigs Fly.&nbsp; The revue, written by&nbsp;Howard Crabtree&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mark Waldrop&nbsp;with music by&nbsp;Dick Gallagher, was a sensation and won oodles of awards when it opened in 1996.&nbsp; The original production ran for over two years and spawned companies around the world.&nbsp; So it seemed a slam dunk when this revival<\/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-3750","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\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}