{"id":90486,"date":"2022-06-19T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90486"},"modified":"2022-06-19T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:55:43","slug":"funny-how-it-aint-so-funny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/06\/19\/funny-how-it-aint-so-funny-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny How It Ain&#8217;t So Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>, panelist <strong>Anastasia Barzee <\/strong>announced that <strong>Lea Michele <\/strong>would replace <strong>Beanie Feldstein <\/strong>in <strong><em>Funny Girl<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Talk about breaking news!&nbsp; When I asked her source, she said, \u201cI just read it on <em>Facebook<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp; Insert eye-roll.&nbsp; But, could it happen?&nbsp; Everyone knows that Michele has been champing at the bit to play the role.&nbsp; But there is also the question of Beanie\u2019s understudy, <strong>Julie Benko<\/strong>, who is reportedly fantastic.&nbsp; Will the producers create a star out of an unknown, or go with Lea?&nbsp; I predict they will go with a \u201cname\u201d \u2013 whether that name is Lea Michele remains to be seen.&nbsp; There is also a chance that <strong>Rosie O\u2019Donnell <\/strong>will finally get to play Mama Brice.&nbsp; But wouldn\u2019t it be nice if they considered <strong>Lainie Kazan<\/strong>, who played Fanny in Barbra\u2019s stead on <em>Broadway<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of Billy Masters LIVE, panelist Anastasia Barzee announced that Lea Michele would replace Beanie Feldstein in Funny Girl.&nbsp; Talk about breaking news!&nbsp; When I asked her source, she said, \u201cI just read it on Facebook\u201d.&nbsp; Insert eye-roll.&nbsp; But, could it happen?&nbsp; Everyone knows that Michele has been champing at the bit to<\/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-90486","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\/90486","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=90486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90487,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90486\/revisions\/90487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}