{"id":4782,"date":"2019-03-04T03:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2019-03-04T03:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:02:28","slug":"kiddie-pageant-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/kiddie-pageant-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiddie Pageant Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that awards season is over, I can get back to my normal life \u2013 and part of that normal life is going to theatre.&nbsp; The&nbsp;<em>Celebration Theatre&nbsp;<\/em>is one of my favorite places \u2013 it brought us&nbsp;<strong><em>Naked Boys Singing<\/em><\/strong>, so that\u2019s gotta count for something.&nbsp; The first show of the season is&nbsp;<strong><em>Born to Win<\/em><\/strong>, written by&nbsp;<strong>Matthew Wilkas&nbsp;<\/strong>(that\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Mrs. Gus Kenworthy&nbsp;<\/strong>to you) and&nbsp;<strong>Mark Setlock&nbsp;<\/strong>and starring Wilkas and&nbsp;<strong>Drew Droege<\/strong>.&nbsp; It\u2019s a spoof on the cutthroat world of kiddie beauty pageants, a subject rife for parody.&nbsp; The play milks the premise with over-the-top performances, clever staging, and actors playing numerous roles.&nbsp; Don\u2019t even get me started on how they handle the kiddie aspect without actually having kids (for the most part).&nbsp; Are there holes in the show?&nbsp; Absolutely \u2013 if you think about it, the entire conceit falls apart, which is unfortunate because these problems could have been solved in the writing.&nbsp; As to the cast, Drew Droege can do virtually anything.&nbsp; Here he is utilized exceptionally well and gives a performance worthy of&nbsp;<strong>Charles Busch&nbsp;<\/strong>(whose plays he often stars in).&nbsp; Mr. Wilkas \u2013 well, he sure is purty.&nbsp; And he\u2019s a good actor.&nbsp; Is parody or farce his strong suit?&nbsp; Well\u2026he sure is purty.&nbsp; The play runs through March 31<sup>st<\/sup>, and I heartily recommend it.&nbsp; At 90 minutes and $25 for tickets, what\u2019s not to like?&nbsp; Grab those tix at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.CelebrationTheatre.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>CelebrationTheatre.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that awards season is over, I can get back to my normal life \u2013 and part of that normal life is going to theatre.&nbsp; The&nbsp;Celebration Theatre&nbsp;is one of my favorite places \u2013 it brought us&nbsp;Naked Boys Singing, so that\u2019s gotta count for something.&nbsp; The first show of the season is&nbsp;Born to Win, written by&nbsp;Matthew<\/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-4782","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\/4782","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=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}