{"id":3838,"date":"2018-04-23T00:16:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2018-04-23T00:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T07:16:56","slug":"revolving-dollys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/revolving-dollys\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolving Dollys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After&nbsp;<strong>Bette Midler&nbsp;<\/strong>left&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><em>Hello, Dolly!<\/em><\/strong>, the hope was that the show would host a revolving door of legendary ladies for a few months at a time and play for years \u2013 like its initial run on&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>.&nbsp; We currently have&nbsp;<strong>Bernadette Peters&nbsp;<\/strong>on&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>, and&nbsp;<strong>Betty Buckley&nbsp;<\/strong>will be helming the national tour.&nbsp; So while theatre folk were wondering who would replace Bernadette when she left, it was announced that person would be\u2026Bette Midler!&nbsp; She will return to the show on July 17<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;through August 25<sup>th<\/sup>, when the show will close \u2013 allegedly.&nbsp; I say that because I don\u2019t believe it will necessarily close.&nbsp; What if it continues to do good business?&nbsp; What if someone comes up with an idea that could keep the show going?&nbsp; What if&nbsp;<strong>Dolly Parton&nbsp;<\/strong>decides she wants to play&nbsp;<em>Dolly<\/em>?&nbsp; What if&nbsp;<strong>Patti LaBelle&nbsp;<\/strong>is interested?&nbsp; I believe producer&nbsp;<strong>Scott Rudin&nbsp;<\/strong>is bringing Bette Midler in for two reasons: 1) as a stalling tactic to see if the show has more life in it and B) To film it with the original cast.&nbsp; He\u2019s always wanted to record this for posterity, but logistically it couldn\u2019t be done during Bette\u2019s first go-round.&nbsp; So why not do it now?&nbsp; Especially since Bette is bringing back original cast members&nbsp;<strong>David Hyde Pierce&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Gavin Creel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After&nbsp;Bette Midler&nbsp;left&nbsp;Broadway\u2019s&nbsp;Hello, Dolly!, the hope was that the show would host a revolving door of legendary ladies for a few months at a time and play for years \u2013 like its initial run on&nbsp;Broadway.&nbsp; We currently have&nbsp;Bernadette Peters&nbsp;on&nbsp;Broadway, and&nbsp;Betty Buckley&nbsp;will be helming the national tour.&nbsp; So while theatre folk were wondering who would replace Bernadette<\/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-3838","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\/3838","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=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}