{"id":5570,"date":"2019-11-17T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2019-11-17T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T21:57:20","slug":"strange-bedfellows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/11\/17\/strange-bedfellows-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If my dating life is any indication, you know that I\u2019m drawn to complicated relationships.&nbsp; I have a gift for seeing the connection between implausible people.&nbsp; For instance, <strong>Ellen DeGeneres <\/strong>will be given the <strong><em>Carol Burnett Award <\/em><\/strong>at the 2020 <em>Golden Globes<\/em>.&nbsp; <strong>Carol Burnett <\/strong>will receive the 2020 <strong><em>Stephen Sondheim Award <\/em><\/strong>from Virginia\u2019s <em>Signature Theatre<\/em>.&nbsp; This winter, <strong>Stephen Sondheim<\/strong>\u2019s musical <strong><em>Company<\/em><\/strong> returns to <em>Broadway <\/em>courtesy of the <em>Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre<\/em>.&nbsp; And <strong>Bernard B. Jacobs <\/strong>is\u2026well, he\u2019s dead.&nbsp; Look, I didn\u2019t say it was a perfect science.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s try another one.&nbsp; Earlier this month, a revival of the musical <strong><em>Mary Poppins<\/em><\/strong> hit London\u2019s <em>West End<\/em>.&nbsp; It stars <strong>Charlie Stemp <\/strong>in the role of Bert.&nbsp; Charlie was last seen on <em>Broadway <\/em>playing Barnaby in the revival of <strong><em>Hello, Dolly!<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; In that production, his partner in crime was <strong>Gavin Creel <\/strong>as Cornelius.&nbsp; And back in 2006, Gavin Creel made his <em>West End<\/em> debut playing Bert in <em>Mary Poppins<\/em>.&nbsp; See?&nbsp; That one works \u2013 and nobody died (yet).<\/p>\n<p>It was just announced that the <em>Broadway <\/em>musical of <strong><em>Tootsie<\/em><\/strong> will be closing on January 5<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; This does not bode well for the recently announced musical based on <strong><em>Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em><\/strong>, which is set to begin previews on <em>Broadway <\/em>in March.&nbsp; Perhaps two high-profile musicals led by men in drag cannot co-exist on <em>Broadway<\/em>.&nbsp; BTW, <em>Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em> will play the <em>Stephen Sondheim Theatre<\/em>, which\u2026I can\u2019t even go there.&nbsp; But it does bear mentioning that the lead in <em>Tootsie<\/em> is played by <strong>Santino Fontana<\/strong>, who replaced Gavin Creel in <em>Hello, Dolly! <\/em>and for a time played opposite Charlie Stemp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Beckinsale <\/strong>has shot down rumors that she is dating <strong>Jamie Foxx<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cIf that\u2019s true, I\u2019ve got a hell of a problem.\u201d&nbsp; Perhaps the media cannot tell the difference between <strong>Kate Beckinsale <\/strong>and <strong>Katie Holmes <\/strong>\u2013 neither of whom have appeared in drag or in a <strong>Sondheim <\/strong>musical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my dating life is any indication, you know that I\u2019m drawn to complicated relationships.&nbsp; I have a gift for seeing the connection between implausible people.&nbsp; For instance, Ellen DeGeneres will be given the Carol Burnett Award at the 2020 Golden Globes.&nbsp; Carol Burnett will receive the 2020 Stephen Sondheim Award from Virginia\u2019s Signature Theatre.&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-5570","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\/5570","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=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}