{"id":4359,"date":"2018-10-22T02:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2018-10-22T02:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:13:22","slug":"sellbuydate-is-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/sellbuydate-is-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell\/Buy\/Date is a HIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When&nbsp;<strong>Sarah Jones<\/strong>\u2019 solo show&nbsp;<strong><em>Sell\/Buy\/Date<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;opened at the&nbsp;<em>Geffen Playhouse&nbsp;<\/em>last spring, it sold out in a matter of minutes.&nbsp; It\u2019s fortunate that the&nbsp;<strong><em>Los Angeles LGBT Center&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>is mounting this encore presentation so that others can experience this mesmerizing work.&nbsp; Jones is a phenomenon, with many touting her as a successor to&nbsp;<strong>Lily Tomlin<\/strong>.&nbsp; Comparisons between the two miss a vital point \u2013 while Lily is the face of her work, the words are those of partner&nbsp;<strong>Jane Wagner<\/strong>.&nbsp; Sarah Jones writes and performs her own material.&nbsp; But like Tomlin\u2019s solo pieces,&nbsp;<em>Buy\/Sell\/Date<\/em>&nbsp;could be seen repeatedly and leave you gleaning something new each time.&nbsp; The show takes place in the future during a seminar on sex workers.&nbsp; We meet men, women, children, elders, and Miss Jones inhabits them all beautifully.&nbsp; The audience is not only entertained, but also moved to think.&nbsp; In many ways, Sarah Jones makes one hopeful for the future.&nbsp; Special plaudits must go out to director&nbsp;<strong>Carolyn Cantor<\/strong>.&nbsp; The construct of the show, the seamless transitions, the fully-integrated technical aspects, the precise light and sound cues \u2013 those things don\u2019t appear out of thin air.&nbsp; Alas, too often a director gets short shrift because one imagines it all begins and ends with the performer.&nbsp; Towards that end, kudos to set designer&nbsp;<strong>Dane Laffrey<\/strong>, lighting designer&nbsp;<strong>Matt Richter<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Bray Poor&nbsp;<\/strong>on sound.&nbsp; The show runs though November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, and you can get tickets at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lalgbtcenter.org\/culture-education\/on-our-stages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>LALGBTCenter.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When&nbsp;Sarah Jones\u2019 solo show&nbsp;Sell\/Buy\/Date&nbsp;opened at the&nbsp;Geffen Playhouse&nbsp;last spring, it sold out in a matter of minutes.&nbsp; It\u2019s fortunate that the&nbsp;Los Angeles LGBT Center&nbsp;is mounting this encore presentation so that others can experience this mesmerizing work.&nbsp; Jones is a phenomenon, with many touting her as a successor to&nbsp;Lily Tomlin.&nbsp; Comparisons between the two miss a vital<\/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-4359","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\/4359","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=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}