{"id":4068,"date":"2018-07-15T22:38:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T05:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2018-07-15T22:38:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T05:38:59","slug":"dont-piss-off-a-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/07\/15\/dont-piss-off-a-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Piss Off A Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone else aggravated is <strong>Dame Diana Rigg<\/strong>.&nbsp; She is in the <em>Broadway <\/em>revival of <strong><em>My Fair Lady<\/em><\/strong>, playing Henry Higgins\u2019 mother.&nbsp; <strong>Lauren Ambrose <\/strong>has decided that due to the burden of carrying a show, she will take off Sunday matinees.&nbsp; Well, Dame Diana is not amused.&nbsp; \u201cI learnt, courtesy of a newspaper, that our leading lady will not be appearing in future Sunday matinees.&nbsp; Now call me old-fashioned, which I unashamedly am, but I don\u2019t think this development is fair to audiences.&nbsp; They have booked their seats in advance, paying an exorbitant price for them to see what they have been led to believe is the original cast.&nbsp; The very least we can do as actors is to acknowledge their presence as a privilege and take care never to abuse it.&nbsp; It is time management put their audiences first and insist on the old adage, slightly adapted by me, \u2018The show must go on \u2013 with ALL principals.\u2019\u201d&nbsp; Hear, hear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone else aggravated is Dame Diana Rigg.&nbsp; She is in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady, playing Henry Higgins\u2019 mother.&nbsp; Lauren Ambrose has decided that due to the burden of carrying a show, she will take off Sunday matinees.&nbsp; Well, Dame Diana is not amused.&nbsp; \u201cI learnt, courtesy of a newspaper, that our leading<\/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-4068","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\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}