{"id":3818,"date":"2018-04-16T03:17:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2018-04-16T03:17:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:17:23","slug":"marilyn-mayes-90th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/04\/16\/marilyn-mayes-90th\/","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Maye&#8217;s 90th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next night, I celebrated&nbsp;<strong>Marilyn Maye<\/strong>\u2019s 90<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;birthday \u2013 and she performed for at least 90 minutes!&nbsp; The capacity crowd at&nbsp;<em>54 Below&nbsp;<\/em>included many familiar faces, including&nbsp;<strong>Tyne Daly<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Christine Ebersole<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Liz Callaway<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>David Hyde Pierce<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Bob Mackie<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Marc Shaiman<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Scott Wittman<\/strong>, and oodles of others.&nbsp; So many people wanted to join in the celebration, Auntie Marilyn\u2019s entire run sold out moments after it was announced.&nbsp; It was extended, and then the extension sold out.&nbsp; Someone told me they hoped we\u2019d be as good when we\u2019re Marilyn\u2019s age.&nbsp; Doubtful \u2013 none of us are as good as her at ANY age!&nbsp; And this was not simply an evening of nostalgia \u2013 Maye\u2019s singing is better than ever.&nbsp; Powerful, insightful, and touching.&nbsp; You can see some clips from the show on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp; I was glad to be there as Maye kicked up her heels \u2013 literally!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next night, I celebrated&nbsp;Marilyn Maye\u2019s 90th&nbsp;birthday \u2013 and she performed for at least 90 minutes!&nbsp; The capacity crowd at&nbsp;54 Below&nbsp;included many familiar faces, including&nbsp;Tyne Daly,&nbsp;Christine Ebersole,&nbsp;Liz Callaway,&nbsp;David Hyde Pierce,&nbsp;Bob Mackie,&nbsp;Marc Shaiman,&nbsp;Scott Wittman, and oodles of others.&nbsp; So many people wanted to join in the celebration, Auntie Marilyn\u2019s entire run sold out moments after it<\/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-3818","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\/3818","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=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}