{"id":4120,"date":"2018-07-30T00:39:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T07:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2018-07-30T00:39:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T07:39:56","slug":"boys-in-the-band-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/07\/30\/boys-in-the-band-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys In The Band Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to cut my&nbsp;<em>Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>festivities short in order to dash to the midnight performance of&nbsp;<strong><em>The Boys in the Band<\/em><\/strong>, which was a benefit for&nbsp;<em>The Actors Fund<\/em>.&nbsp; Since everyone involved donated their time, they raised quite a pretty penny.&nbsp; The capacity crowd was probably the best audience the cast ever had.&nbsp; There\u2019s something subversive about seeing&nbsp;<em>The Boys in the Band<\/em>&nbsp;at a midnight show with an audience primarily made up of gay theatre folk.&nbsp; There was a feeling of camaraderie, warmth, solidarity \u2013 and that was even before the divine&nbsp;<strong>Charles Busch&nbsp;<\/strong>took the stage to thank us for what we were doing just by buying tickets and showing up (you\u2019re welcome).<\/p>\n<p>It is entirely possible one will never assemble as evenly talented a cast for this show ever again.&nbsp; There was no weak link. Those of you who follow my column, please take note of the statement I am about to make \u2013 it was almost impossible to take one\u2019s eyes off of&nbsp;<strong>Andrew Rannells<\/strong>.&nbsp; I found him positively riveting.&nbsp; Perhaps a tad too aggressive at times, but you know \u2013 BOLD choices.&nbsp; Throughout the performance, I wondered how it would be if Andrew and&nbsp;<strong>Matt Bomer&nbsp;<\/strong>switched roles.&nbsp; If you sit on the left side of the balcony (or in the box), you get the best view of Bomer\u2019s underwear and shower sequence.&nbsp; And at the end, you get a great view of Rannells and&nbsp;<strong>Tuc Watkins&nbsp;<\/strong>coupling \u2013 which was definitely worth the price of admission.&nbsp; Perhaps a brief bit of Bomer\u2019s briefs was captured for posterity, if not posterior.&nbsp; I suppose the only way to know for sure is to check out&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to cut my&nbsp;Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;festivities short in order to dash to the midnight performance of&nbsp;The Boys in the Band, which was a benefit for&nbsp;The Actors Fund.&nbsp; Since everyone involved donated their time, they raised quite a pretty penny.&nbsp; The capacity crowd was probably the best audience the cast ever had.&nbsp; There\u2019s something subversive about seeing&nbsp;The<\/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-4120","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\/4120","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=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}