{"id":5949,"date":"2020-01-13T03:47:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2020-01-13T03:47:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:47:51","slug":"tv-to-bway-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/01\/13\/tv-to-bway-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"TV to Bway and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The combination of musicals and TV shows also pertains to our next story.&nbsp; <strong>Fran Drescher <\/strong>has announced that she and <strong>Rachel Bloom <\/strong>are working together to bring <strong><em>The Nanny<\/em><\/strong> to <em>Broadway<\/em>.&nbsp; The combination is intriguing, and reminded me of something <strong>Patti LuPone <\/strong>said about Bloom a few years ago.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m crazy for Rachel Bloom.&nbsp; I\u2019m crazy for her.&nbsp; I think that is one smart show.&nbsp; Of all the musical comedies on television or on the big screen, Rachel knows how to do it.\u201d&nbsp; But can she do it backwards and bring a TV show to the Broadway stage?&nbsp; We shall see\u2026&nbsp; It should be noted that Fran has not announced plans for her or any of the original sitcom cast to join this project.&nbsp; It will be its own entity, but will retain her unique \u201cvoice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC<\/em> just announced that their next live musical broadcast will be <strong>Mel Brooks<\/strong>\u2019 <strong><em>Young Frankenstein<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; While the show\u2019s <em>Broadway <\/em>run paled in comparison to <strong><em>The Producers<\/em><\/strong>, it is a recognizable property which could do well if presented well.&nbsp; Although we have no details, we hear that Mel is pushing for casting many of the roles with the stars from the original <em>Broadway <\/em>production.&nbsp; First on that list must be <strong>Andrea Martin<\/strong>, who earned a <em>Tony <\/em>nomination (and stole the show) as Frau Blucher.&nbsp; <strong>Sutton Foster <\/strong>and <strong>Megan Mullally <\/strong>both have strong TV credits, so I\u2019d think they should be a given.&nbsp; This could turn out to be fun\u2026if it\u2019s done properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combination of musicals and TV shows also pertains to our next story.&nbsp; Fran Drescher has announced that she and Rachel Bloom are working together to bring The Nanny to Broadway.&nbsp; The combination is intriguing, and reminded me of something Patti LuPone said about Bloom a few years ago.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m crazy for Rachel Bloom.&nbsp; I\u2019m<\/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-5949","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\/5949","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=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}