{"id":5470,"date":"2019-10-28T06:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2019-10-28T06:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:20:46","slug":"whoopis-back-in-the-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/whoopis-back-in-the-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi&#8217;s Back in the habit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another person who has been begging&nbsp;<em>Disney&nbsp;<\/em>for a sequel is&nbsp;<strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong>, on behalf of&nbsp;<strong><em>Sister Act<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Despite the popularity of the first two films, the studio hasn\u2019t budged.&nbsp; For a while, it seemed as if Whoopi might make the third installment with&nbsp;<strong>Tyler Perry<\/strong>, who offered to buy the rights from&nbsp;<em>Disney<\/em>.&nbsp; The studio said no.&nbsp; The original was adapted for the stage and became a hit musical.&nbsp; Whoopi was not only one of the producers of the London production, she also appeared in the show in 2010 as the Mother Superior.&nbsp; And she\u2019s gonna do it again \u2013 this time as Deloris Van Cartier!&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to get&nbsp;<strong><em>Sister Act 3<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;up and running and really met with a lot of resistance of people saying nobody wants to see it, it\u2019s dated, it\u2019s old, etc\u2026So the guys who did&nbsp;<em>Sister Act&nbsp;<\/em>onstage said, \u2018Would you come and do Deloris and we\u2019ll make some adjustments,\u2019 \u2018cause, you know, I\u2019m a little older.\u201d&nbsp; To sweeten the pot, the Mother Superior will be played by the absolutely fabulous&nbsp;<strong>Jennifer Saunders<\/strong>.&nbsp; The limited run will play London\u2019s&nbsp;<em>West End<\/em>&nbsp;next August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another person who has been begging&nbsp;Disney&nbsp;for a sequel is&nbsp;Whoopi Goldberg, on behalf of&nbsp;Sister Act.&nbsp; Despite the popularity of the first two films, the studio hasn\u2019t budged.&nbsp; For a while, it seemed as if Whoopi might make the third installment with&nbsp;Tyler Perry, who offered to buy the rights from&nbsp;Disney.&nbsp; The studio said no.&nbsp; The original was<\/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-5470","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\/5470","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=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5471,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}