{"id":3826,"date":"2018-04-23T00:12:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2018-04-23T00:12:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:12:53","slug":"sykes-sells-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/sykes-sells-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes Sells Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever said you can\u2019t go home again wasn\u2019t with&nbsp;<strong>Billy Masters&nbsp;<\/strong>last week.&nbsp; As you know, I frequently visit the ancestral&nbsp;<em>Masters Manor&nbsp;<\/em>in Medford, Massachusetts.&nbsp; In recent years, the city has rehabilitated&nbsp;<em>Chevalier Auditorium<\/em>, which was once part of the old high school.&nbsp; Your beloved Billy spent countless hours of his childhood in this 1,900-seat venue, which is once again playing host to numerous acts of high regard.&nbsp; I suspect that these people are told that they\u2019re playing in the \u201csixth largest theatre in the Metropolitan Boston area\u201d.&nbsp; Then they get out of the car and say, \u201cWhat the fuck is a Medford?\u201d&nbsp; When I saw that&nbsp;<strong>Wanda Sykes&nbsp;<\/strong>was there as part of the&nbsp;<strong><em>9<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Annual Women in Comedy Festival<\/em><\/strong>, I knew it was a perfect time for us both to revisit our pasts.&nbsp; For me, I got to roam around a theatre that played a big part in my life.&nbsp; For Wanda, the memories may have been less pleasant.&nbsp; Her last Boston gig was the&nbsp;<strong><em>2016 Comics Come Home<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;benefit, where she was roundly booed for her anti-<strong>Trump&nbsp;<\/strong>stance.&nbsp; Now, in 2018, she had a new problem.&nbsp; On the morning of the show, she woke up with no voice whatsoever.&nbsp; But, being in Boston, she was able to go to&nbsp;<em>Mass<\/em>&nbsp;<em>General<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hospital<\/em>&nbsp;and see the same doctor who treated&nbsp;<strong>Adele<\/strong>!&nbsp; And that\u2019s how, even with diminished vocal abilities, Miss Sykes got through a 90-minute set.&nbsp; She was surely bolstered by the sold-out audience who cheered her on.&nbsp; A few times she struggled and apologized, only to be met with calls of \u201cWe love you, Wanda\u201d.&nbsp; A great night for comedy, and a true exhibition of triumph of the human spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever said you can\u2019t go home again wasn\u2019t with&nbsp;Billy Masters&nbsp;last week.&nbsp; As you know, I frequently visit the ancestral&nbsp;Masters Manor&nbsp;in Medford, Massachusetts.&nbsp; In recent years, the city has rehabilitated&nbsp;Chevalier Auditorium, which was once part of the old high school.&nbsp; Your beloved Billy spent countless hours of his childhood in this 1,900-seat venue, which is once<\/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-3826","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\/3826","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=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3835,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}