{"id":5128,"date":"2019-06-30T23:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2019-06-30T23:01:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:01:52","slug":"shake-up-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/06\/30\/shake-up-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Shake Up On Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadway is not for the faint of heart.&nbsp; Every year, the post-<em>Tony Awards&nbsp;<\/em>period sees several shut-out shows shutter.&nbsp; Alas, this year is no different.&nbsp; Within days of the awards,&nbsp;<strong><em>The Prom<\/em><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>King Kong<\/em><\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong><em>The Cher Show<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;posted closing notices.&nbsp; Here\u2019s an idea \u2013 why not combine all three?&nbsp; I can just see it now.&nbsp; Kong descends from the&nbsp;<em>Empire State Building&nbsp;<\/em>and asks&nbsp;<strong>Cher<\/strong>&nbsp;to be his date for the prom.&nbsp; Of course, people protest \u2013 interspecies dating is still such a taboo subject.&nbsp; I smell a hit\u2026or maybe that\u2019s just Kong.<\/p>\n<p>While costs are prohibitive for Kong to hit the road,&nbsp;<strong><em>The Cher Show<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;will embark on an extensive national tour.&nbsp; However, the big news is that&nbsp;<em>The Prom<\/em>&nbsp;will be adapted by&nbsp;<strong>Ryan Murphy&nbsp;<\/strong>for&nbsp;<em>Netflix<\/em>.&nbsp; And he\u2019s bringing along a starry cast which includes&nbsp;<strong>James Corden<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Meryl Streep<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Nicole Kidman<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Andrew Rannells<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I told you that&nbsp;<strong>Jesse Tyler Ferguson&nbsp;<\/strong>will return to&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>next season in a revival of&nbsp;<strong><em>Take Me Out<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; In addition to his appearance on the&nbsp;<em>Great White Way<\/em>, Jesse has also been named host of the&nbsp;<strong><em>Extreme Makeover: Home Edition<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;reboot for&nbsp;<em>HGTV<\/em>.&nbsp; He\u2019s gonna have an awfully busy life next year.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re sharing good news, it\u2019s just been announced that two of the latest people to be getting stars on the&nbsp;<em>Hollywood Walk of Fame&nbsp;<\/em>will be&nbsp;<strong>Billy Porter&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Andy Cohen<\/strong>.&nbsp; Congrats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadway is not for the faint of heart.&nbsp; Every year, the post-Tony Awards&nbsp;period sees several shut-out shows shutter.&nbsp; Alas, this year is no different.&nbsp; Within days of the awards,&nbsp;The Prom,&nbsp;King Kong, and&nbsp;The Cher Show&nbsp;posted closing notices.&nbsp; Here\u2019s an idea \u2013 why not combine all three?&nbsp; I can just see it now.&nbsp; Kong descends from the&nbsp;Empire<\/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-5128","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\/5128","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=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5129,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions\/5129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}