{"id":8020,"date":"2020-05-18T00:53:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T07:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2020-05-18T00:53:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T07:53:23","slug":"hairspray-and-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/hairspray-and-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairspray and Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some stories I avoid reporting \u2013 I assume they\u2019re old news to most readers.&nbsp; And then people think I missed something.&nbsp; So, here goes.&nbsp; You all know that <strong><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong> has been the biggest hit on <em>Broadway <\/em>for the past five years.&nbsp; While <strong>Lin-Manuel Miranda <\/strong>and the rest of the original cast were in the show, they filmed three performances and edited them down to one fabulous film \u2013 LIVE!&nbsp; <em>Disney <\/em>paid $75 million for the rights, and planned to release it in 2021.&nbsp; In light of the current crisis, they\u2019ve opted to release it on <em>Disney+ <\/em>on the eve of Independence Day, July 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>If you need your fix of musical theatre, go online to see a plethora of musical talent assembled for the finale from <strong><em>Hairspray<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Dozens of luminaries took part in a brilliant rendition of \u201cYou Can\u2019t Stop the Beat\u201d.&nbsp; Eagle eyes will notice several stars who have also popped up on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>, particularly two notable Motormouth Mabels \u2013 <strong>Jenifer Lewis <\/strong>and <strong>Darlene Love<\/strong>.&nbsp; By the way, Jenifer recorded her section moments after appearing on my show \u2013 which would explain why she\u2019s in the same outfit!&nbsp; Yes, #BML always gets everything first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some stories I avoid reporting \u2013 I assume they\u2019re old news to most readers.&nbsp; And then people think I missed something.&nbsp; So, here goes.&nbsp; You all know that Hamilton has been the biggest hit on Broadway for the past five years.&nbsp; While Lin-Manuel Miranda and the rest of the original cast were in the show,<\/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-8020","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\/8020","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=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8021,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions\/8021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}