{"id":4496,"date":"2018-12-10T01:35:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2018-12-10T01:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T09:35:51","slug":"faye-tackles-hepburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/12\/10\/faye-tackles-hepburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Faye Tackles Hepburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I typically wouldn\u2019t have a&nbsp;<strong><em>Fayewatch&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>item this early in the column.&nbsp; But trust me, this is no normal Fayewatch.&nbsp; Then again, there is no such thing as a \u201cnormal\u201d Fayewatch.&nbsp; For the past few years,&nbsp;<strong>Miss Dunaway<\/strong>\u2019s professional output has been limited to a curious extended commercial for&nbsp;<em>Gucci&nbsp;<\/em>and shuffling onstage at two consecutive&nbsp;<em>Academy Awards&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 thus ensuring her spot when it\u2019s time for the inevitable&nbsp;<em>In Memoriam<\/em>&nbsp;segment.&nbsp; That was all a warm-up for her grand return to&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>.&nbsp; Ah, the Great White Way.&nbsp; Faye hasn\u2019t appeared there since 1982 \u2013 I believe she was 82 at the time.&nbsp; And she\u2019s finally found a vehicle to harness her unique talents, such as they are.&nbsp; She will star in&nbsp;<strong><em>Tea at Five<\/em><\/strong>, a one-woman show about\u2026brace yourself,&nbsp;<strong>Katharine Hepburn<\/strong>!&nbsp; Well, when you think of people suitable to play dead grand dames, who else?&nbsp; The press release indicates that the run will take place sometime next summer and will be a \u201cstrictly limited engagement\u201d (I will refrain from the obvious joke). &nbsp;Here\u2019s something the press release doesn\u2019t say \u2013 the first choice for the role of Miss Hepburn was the divine&nbsp;<strong>Charles Busch<\/strong>!&nbsp; And I should know: I was there.&nbsp; Back in 2011, Busch starred in a one-night-only performance of&nbsp;<strong>Matthew Lombardo<\/strong>\u2019s revised play, which was a benefit for the&nbsp;<em>Ali Forney Center<\/em>.&nbsp; Needless to say, he was magical.&nbsp; Charles was courted for a full run, but Busch marches to the beat of his own drum and declined.&nbsp; So, essentially Faye is replacing a fella in a frock.&nbsp; How curious \u2013 usually it\u2019s the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I typically wouldn\u2019t have a&nbsp;Fayewatch&nbsp;item this early in the column.&nbsp; But trust me, this is no normal Fayewatch.&nbsp; Then again, there is no such thing as a \u201cnormal\u201d Fayewatch.&nbsp; For the past few years,&nbsp;Miss Dunaway\u2019s professional output has been limited to a curious extended commercial for&nbsp;Gucci&nbsp;and shuffling onstage at two consecutive&nbsp;Academy Awards&nbsp;\u2013 thus ensuring her<\/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-4496","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\/4496","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=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}