{"id":90407,"date":"2022-05-22T23:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90407"},"modified":"2022-05-22T23:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:27:30","slug":"take-me-out-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/05\/22\/take-me-out-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Me Out Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the opposite side of the spectrum, <strong>Jesse Williams <\/strong>is not only making his <em>Broadway <\/em>debut, but his live stage debut in <strong><em>Take Me Out<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; And he is spectacular.&nbsp; If you read this column with any regularity \u2013 and I suspect most of my readers are regular \u2013 you know I do not use that word lightly.&nbsp; He has that \u201cstar quality\u201d that is impossible to explain, but immediately evident.&nbsp; He is so natural that his acting is almost completely indiscernible.&nbsp; And he is surrounded by a cast equally outstanding.&nbsp; Make no mistake \u2013 Jesse is first among equals\u2026but first nonetheless.&nbsp; Despite how good Williams is, the person who holds this show together is <strong>Patrick J. Adams<\/strong>.&nbsp; With a lesser actor, his narration would simply be the bridge between the scenes.&nbsp; But he is so fully integrated, so invested, and, again, so \u201creal\u201d that he amplifies every scene.&nbsp; Naturally, <strong>Jesse Tyler Ferguson <\/strong>is as wonderful as you\u2019d expect.&nbsp; He\u2019s touching and endearing and lovely.&nbsp; It was the best production of this play I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the opposite side of the spectrum, Jesse Williams is not only making his Broadway debut, but his live stage debut in Take Me Out.&nbsp; And he is spectacular.&nbsp; If you read this column with any regularity \u2013 and I suspect most of my readers are regular \u2013 you know I do not use that<\/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-90407","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\/90407","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=90407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90408,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90407\/revisions\/90408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}