{"id":45326,"date":"2021-02-21T23:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=45326"},"modified":"2021-02-21T23:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:14:27","slug":"whoopis-out-megans-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/02\/21\/whoopis-out-megans-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi&#8217;s Out, Megan&#8217;s In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most exciting things that was supposed to happen in 2020 was <strong>Whoopi Goldberg <\/strong>reprising her role of Deloris Van Cartier in the stage musical <strong><em>Sister Act<\/em><\/strong> in London\u2019s <em>West End<\/em>.&nbsp; Obviously, that production was postponed \u2013 until the summer of 2021.&nbsp; With the coronavirus dragging on and on, the opening has been pushed to July 19, 2022.&nbsp; Brace yourself \u2013 it gets worse.&nbsp; I\u2019ll let Whoopi tell you herself: \u201c<em>Sister Act <\/em>is near and dear to my heart, and I\u2019m disappointed that I will be unable to perform in this production under the circumstances.&nbsp; However, my producing partners and I will continue to work towards mounting a fantastic production, with an amazing new cast.\u201d&nbsp; The new cast has yet to be announced, but I fear <strong>Jennifer Saunders <\/strong>is also out as the Mother Superior.<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s any consolation, the <em>West End<\/em> will soon see a revival of <strong>Cole Porter<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>Anything Goes<\/em><\/strong> starring <strong>Megan Mullally<\/strong>.&nbsp; It\u2019s adding insult to injury.&nbsp; That show will run for 11 weeks at the <em>Barbican <\/em>starting on June 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most exciting things that was supposed to happen in 2020 was Whoopi Goldberg reprising her role of Deloris Van Cartier in the stage musical Sister Act in London\u2019s West End.&nbsp; Obviously, that production was postponed \u2013 until the summer of 2021.&nbsp; With the coronavirus dragging on and on, the opening has been<\/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-45326","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\/45326","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=45326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45327,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions\/45327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}