{"id":4149,"date":"2018-08-06T00:34:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T07:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2018-08-06T00:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T07:34:51","slug":"pretty-woman-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/08\/06\/pretty-woman-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Woman on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>-bound musical version of&nbsp;<strong><em>Pretty Woman<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;will be opening on August 16th.&nbsp; The show is currently in previews at the&nbsp;<em>Nederlander Theatre<\/em>, and we hear audiences love it.&nbsp; Last week, they had a pretty important group of people come to check it out \u2013 the family of director&nbsp;<strong>Garry Marshall&nbsp;<\/strong>and the film\u2019s star,&nbsp;<strong>Julia Roberts<\/strong>.&nbsp; In a classy act, Julia was wearing a vintage&nbsp;<strong><em>Laverne &amp; Shirley<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;T-shirt under her blazer.&nbsp; She also spoke highly about Garry, the work he did, and how every project really was about family.&nbsp; Garry\u2019s son&nbsp;<strong>Scott&nbsp;<\/strong>spoke on behalf of the family: \u201cHis dream was to make it on&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>.&nbsp; When he was a little kid, growing up in New York, his mother would take him to&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>shows, and he and his sisters, and they didn\u2019t have a lot of money so they sat way in the back row, and that\u2019s where he first fell in love with live theater.&nbsp; He never gave up on his dream.\u201d&nbsp; As someone who also knew and admired Garry, I am sure this show fulfills his vision\u2026thanks in no small measure to director and choreographer&nbsp;<strong>Jerry Mitchell<\/strong>.&nbsp; I predict a HUGE hit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Broadway-bound musical version of&nbsp;Pretty Woman&nbsp;will be opening on August 16th.&nbsp; The show is currently in previews at the&nbsp;Nederlander Theatre, and we hear audiences love it.&nbsp; Last week, they had a pretty important group of people come to check it out \u2013 the family of director&nbsp;Garry Marshall&nbsp;and the film\u2019s star,&nbsp;Julia Roberts.&nbsp; In a classy act, Julia<\/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-4149","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\/4149","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=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}