{"id":5308,"date":"2019-09-02T02:10:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2019-09-02T02:10:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:10:26","slug":"six-hits-the-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/02\/six-hits-the-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Hits the ART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kept hearing about the musical&nbsp;<strong><em>Six<\/em><\/strong>, which has been taking England by storm.&nbsp; It\u2019s now invaded the States and is currently at the&nbsp;<em>American Repertory Theater&nbsp;<\/em>in Cambridge following a sold-out eight-week run in Chicago.&nbsp; A hot new musical?&nbsp; About the wives of&nbsp;<strong>Henry VIII<\/strong>?&nbsp; Done in a single 80-minute act?&nbsp; I\u2019m in!&nbsp; The show is staged as a concert featuring Henry\u2019s six wives as members of a female empowering girl group.&nbsp; These ladies are competing to determine which wife got the short end of the stick (and, according to one of the wives, Henry possessed a mighty short stick).&nbsp; They also want to rehabilitate how history has portrayed them and come out of the shadows of a misogynistic male.&nbsp; The songs are of the&nbsp;<strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong>\/<strong>Adele<\/strong>\/<strong>Kelly Clarkson&nbsp;<\/strong>ilk, and the lyrics \u2013 while taking some liberties with history \u2013 are clever and educational.&nbsp; It\u2019s kinda like a #MeToo version of&nbsp;<strong><em>Schoolhouse Rock<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The queens are each splendid, and the kick-ass band (<strong><em>Ladies in Waiting<\/em><\/strong>) provides ample oomph.&nbsp; The atmosphere is electric from start till the inevitable encore.&nbsp; If you wanna see the next big thing on&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>, get thee to the ART.&nbsp; It closes on September 29<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and what few tickets remaining can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.AmericanRepertoryTheater.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>AmericanRepertoryTheater.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kept hearing about the musical&nbsp;Six, which has been taking England by storm.&nbsp; It\u2019s now invaded the States and is currently at the&nbsp;American Repertory Theater&nbsp;in Cambridge following a sold-out eight-week run in Chicago.&nbsp; A hot new musical?&nbsp; About the wives of&nbsp;Henry VIII?&nbsp; Done in a single 80-minute act?&nbsp; I\u2019m in!&nbsp; The show is staged as<\/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-5308","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\/5308","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=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5309,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}