{"id":3959,"date":"2018-06-04T04:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2018-06-04T04:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:42:30","slug":"the-boys-finally-hit-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/the-boys-finally-hit-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boys Finally Hit Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much-anticipated 50<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversary production of&nbsp;<strong><em>The Boys in the Band<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;opened on&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>last week to critical acclaim.&nbsp; There were some caveats regarding the material, the cast, and director&nbsp;<strong>Joe Mantello<\/strong>\u2019s decision to run the play as a taut, single 110-minute act \u2013 which I think makes sense since the play takes place in real time during a single evening in April 1968.&nbsp; Nothing I\u2019ve read has deterred my interest in this production, which I plan to see (and review) next month.&nbsp; If you are interested, I\u2019d suggest being swift of foot.&nbsp; The limited run closes on August 11<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Well, all good band boys would want to see the summer out in Fire Island or Ptown!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-anticipated 50th&nbsp;anniversary production of&nbsp;The Boys in the Band&nbsp;opened on&nbsp;Broadway&nbsp;last week to critical acclaim.&nbsp; There were some caveats regarding the material, the cast, and director&nbsp;Joe Mantello\u2019s decision to run the play as a taut, single 110-minute act \u2013 which I think makes sense since the play takes place in real time during a single evening<\/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-3959","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\/3959","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=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}