{"id":91016,"date":"2022-12-18T23:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T07:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91016"},"modified":"2022-12-18T23:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T07:02:41","slug":"some-more-aint-no-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/12\/18\/some-more-aint-no-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More Ain&#8217;t No Mo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of <strong><em>Ain\u2019t No Mo\u2019<\/em><\/strong>?&nbsp; This <em>Broadway <\/em>show is a collection of sketches based on a fascinating premise \u2013 what if the US government offered black people a one-way ticket back to Africa?&nbsp; Alas, clever as it may be, the show is not exactly burning up the box office.&nbsp; So the producers announced an imminent closing.&nbsp; Then <strong>Will <\/strong>and <strong>Jada Pinkett Smith <\/strong>bought out every single ticket for a performance.&nbsp; They were followed by <strong>Queen Latifah<\/strong>.&nbsp; And then people like <strong>Sara Ramirez<\/strong>, <strong>Shonda Rhimes<\/strong>, <strong>Tyler Perry<\/strong>, <strong>Gabrielle Union <\/strong>and <strong>Dwyane Wade <\/strong>hosted pre- and post-show events.&nbsp; The producers \u2013 not people known for turning down money \u2013 granted the show an extension.&nbsp; It will now close on December 23rd, unless by some Christmas\/Kwanzaa miracle, tickets start moving.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Americans returning to Africa, my dear <strong>Jenifer Lewis <\/strong>was recently in Africa and returned home \u2013 just in time to appear on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Alas, a series of mishaps led to her missing our scheduled chat.&nbsp; Have no fear \u2013 we\u2019re rescheduling for next month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of Ain\u2019t No Mo\u2019?&nbsp; This Broadway show is a collection of sketches based on a fascinating premise \u2013 what if the US government offered black people a one-way ticket back to Africa?&nbsp; Alas, clever as it may be, the show is not exactly burning up the box office.&nbsp; So the producers announced<\/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-91016","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\/91016","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=91016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91017,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91016\/revisions\/91017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}