{"id":5072,"date":"2019-06-10T04:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2019-06-10T04:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:19:37","slug":"inside-the-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/inside-the-tony-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Tony Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, every year we have the clash of&nbsp;<em>LA Pride&nbsp;<\/em>and the&nbsp;<em>Tony Awards<\/em>.&nbsp; This year, the&nbsp;<em>Tonys&nbsp;<\/em>won out.&nbsp; While there wasn\u2019t much gossip to report, let me congratulate&nbsp;<strong>Mart Crowley&nbsp;<\/strong>for winning&nbsp;<em>Best Revival of a Play&nbsp;<\/em>for his&nbsp;<strong><em>Boys in the Band<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 a play that basically wouldn\u2019t have been written were it not for&nbsp;<strong>Natalie Wood<\/strong>\u2026but that\u2019s another story for another time.&nbsp; In accepting her&nbsp;<em>Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for Humanitarian Efforts<\/em>, our beloved&nbsp;<strong>Judith Light&nbsp;<\/strong>made a point of acknowledging us.&nbsp; \u201cIt has long been my privilege to support the HIV\/AIDS and the LGBTQ+ communities, so to be honored in this way tonight is extremely humbling.\u201d&nbsp; And speaking of our community, is it just me or was&nbsp;<strong>LaTanya Richardson Jackson&nbsp;<\/strong>wearing a gay pride coat?&nbsp; Or was she auditioning for a touring company of&nbsp;<strong><em>Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat<\/em><\/strong>?&nbsp; Speaking of clothes, bravo to my dear friend, the amazingly talented&nbsp;<strong>Bob Mackie&nbsp;<\/strong>for&nbsp;<em>Best Costumes&nbsp;<\/em>for&nbsp;<strong><em>The Cher Show<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, every year we have the clash of&nbsp;LA Pride&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Tony Awards.&nbsp; This year, the&nbsp;Tonys&nbsp;won out.&nbsp; While there wasn\u2019t much gossip to report, let me congratulate&nbsp;Mart Crowley&nbsp;for winning&nbsp;Best Revival of a Play&nbsp;for his&nbsp;Boys in the Band&nbsp;\u2013 a play that basically wouldn\u2019t have been written were it not for&nbsp;Natalie Wood\u2026but that\u2019s another story for another time.&nbsp;<\/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-5072","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\/5072","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=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}