{"id":90695,"date":"2022-09-04T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90695"},"modified":"2022-09-04T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:25:07","slug":"one-last-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/09\/04\/one-last-hurrah\/","title":{"rendered":"One Last Hurrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of the passing of the <strong><em>Summer of \u201922 <\/em><\/strong>have been greatly exaggerated.&nbsp; Despite accepting that fall was upon us, I stubbornly needed one last hurrah.&nbsp; Back to Provincetown I went \u2013 damn the chill in the air and those elongated shadows.&nbsp; My last official outing was seeing <strong>Steven Brinberg<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>Simply Barbra<\/em><\/strong> at the <em>Provincetown Art House <\/em>(<strong><u>PtownArtHouse.com<\/u><\/strong>).&nbsp; As always, Brinberg is a delight replicating every vocal inflection, tic and nuance of the diva.&nbsp; But he doesn\u2019t stop with <strong>Streisand <\/strong>\u2013 he evokes at least a dozen other luminaries, including <strong>Eartha Kitt<\/strong>, <strong>Bette Davis<\/strong>, <strong>Ethel Merman<\/strong>, <strong>Lena Horne<\/strong>, <strong>Bea Arthur<\/strong>, and even the great <strong>Anthony Newley<\/strong>.&nbsp; A highlight was his tribute to <strong><em>Hello, Dolly!<\/em><\/strong>, which turned into a duet&#8230;and then a trio.&nbsp; You have to see it to believe it.&nbsp; The special guest appearance of crooner <strong>Nicolas King <\/strong>was just the icing on an already rich cake.&nbsp; Check him out if he comes to your locale \u2013 the full schedule is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.SimplyBarbra.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>SimplyBarbra.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was both tickled and humbled by the many people who came up to me after the show to say they\u2019re fans of the column or of <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> (we\u2019re currently on a hiatus).&nbsp; It really touched me \u2013 which also happened later at <em>Velvet<\/em>\u2019s underwear party.&nbsp; Come to think of it, I was also tickled there&#8230;among other places.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of the passing of the Summer of \u201922 have been greatly exaggerated.&nbsp; Despite accepting that fall was upon us, I stubbornly needed one last hurrah.&nbsp; Back to Provincetown I went \u2013 damn the chill in the air and those elongated shadows.&nbsp; My last official outing was seeing Steven Brinberg\u2019s Simply Barbra at the Provincetown<\/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-90695","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\/90695","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=90695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90704,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90695\/revisions\/90704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}