{"id":3816,"date":"2018-04-16T03:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2018-04-16T03:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:15:57","slug":"pigs-finally-fly-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/04\/16\/pigs-finally-fly-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs Finally Fly in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I skipped the&nbsp;<em>Point Foundation&nbsp;<\/em>gala to attend the&nbsp;<em>Actors Fund&nbsp;<\/em>benefit performance of&nbsp;<strong><em>When Pigs Fly<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; As you may recall, this revue was slated to return to the&nbsp;<em>off-Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>stage last fall, but then the money fell through days before the first preview!&nbsp; So this benefit not only raised money for&nbsp;<em>Actors Fund<\/em>, it gave the cast a chance to perform the show in front of a live audience \u2013 which was incredibly emotional for everyone.&nbsp; The icing on the cake is that we finally got to see&nbsp;<strong>Bob Mackie<\/strong>\u2019s incredible creations.&nbsp; The legendary designer had completed about 75 percent of the costumes when work stopped.&nbsp; He graciously allowed this production to use the completed outfits and, boy, were they amazing!&nbsp; They were so spectacular, I worried they would overshadow the cast.&nbsp; Imagine coming out of the theatre whistling the costumes!&nbsp; Happily, the cast matched their accoutrements with a terrific performance that easily won the hearts of everyone (they\u2019re also a pretty good-looking bunch of lads).&nbsp; Hopefully someone will step up to produce this show and give even more people the chance to enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I skipped the&nbsp;Point Foundation&nbsp;gala to attend the&nbsp;Actors Fund&nbsp;benefit performance of&nbsp;When Pigs Fly.&nbsp; As you may recall, this revue was slated to return to the&nbsp;off-Broadway&nbsp;stage last fall, but then the money fell through days before the first preview!&nbsp; So this benefit not only raised money for&nbsp;Actors Fund, it gave the cast a chance to perform the<\/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-3816","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\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}