{"id":60056,"date":"2021-06-20T23:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=60056"},"modified":"2021-06-20T23:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:58:34","slug":"billys-bares-scoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/06\/20\/billys-bares-scoop\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy&#8217;s Bares Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Md4tYzlusvs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What a fabulous time we had on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> last week.&nbsp; We celebrated the continuing legacy of <strong><em>Broadway Bares<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 created in 1992 by <strong>Jerry Mitchell<\/strong>.&nbsp; I thought it would be fun to chat with some performers in the current show and from previous years.&nbsp; Those included <strong>Christopher Sieber<\/strong>, <strong>Sebastian LaCause<\/strong>, <strong>Patrick Boyd<\/strong>, <strong>Jay Armstrong Johnson<\/strong>, and <strong>Mark MacKillop<\/strong>.&nbsp; What a hunk-a-licious time we had!!&nbsp; If you wanna watch <em>Bares<\/em>, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BroadwayCares.org\/Bares\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BroadwayCares.org\/Bares<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, June 24<sup>th<\/sup>, we\u2019ll feature a special Pride panel which will include the beloved <strong>Bruce Vilanch<\/strong>.&nbsp; Tune into <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>YouTube<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Billy Masters TV<\/em><\/strong><\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\/TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We even broke a little news on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Pre-pandemic, Christopher Sieber was in previews for <em>Broadway<\/em>\u2019s gender-bending version of <strong><em>Company<\/em><\/strong> with <strong>Patti LuPone<\/strong>.&nbsp; They will resume on December 20<sup>th<\/sup>, with the opening scheduled for January 9<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Innocently, I asked, \u201cWill the whole cast be returning?\u201d&nbsp; Christopher kinda stuttered, and finally said, \u201cWell\u2026I can\u2019t say that.\u201d&nbsp; And, whaddaya know \u2013 the next day it was announced that the lovely and talented <strong>Kyle Dean Massey <\/strong>will not return to play Theo (Kathy in the original).&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; \u201c<strong>Taylor <\/strong>and I are expecting our first child this fall and I want to be 100% present for that.\u201d&nbsp; No word on his replacement\u2026yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff What a fabulous time we had on Billy Masters LIVE last week.&nbsp; We celebrated the continuing legacy of Broadway Bares \u2013 created in 1992 by Jerry Mitchell.&nbsp; I thought it would be fun to chat with some performers in the current show and from previous years.&nbsp; Those included Christopher Sieber, Sebastian LaCause, Patrick Boyd,<\/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-60056","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\/60056","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=60056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60057,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056\/revisions\/60057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}