{"id":91777,"date":"2023-09-04T03:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T10:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91777"},"modified":"2023-09-04T03:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T10:19:42","slug":"da-vinci-uncoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/09\/04\/da-vinci-uncoded\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci Uncoded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I left New England, I zipped up to the <em>Ogunquit Playhouse <\/em>in Maine to catch the US premiere of a play version of <strong><em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I\u2019m surely in the minority of people who never read the book or saw the movie.&nbsp; But I\u2019m delighted to say I not only followed the show, but I found it to be marvelously entertaining.&nbsp; It\u2019s well-written and fast-moving (save for a lengthy section in the plane \u2013 which clumsily gave us information necessary for events that happen thereafter).&nbsp; I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve enjoyed a new play as much in quite some time.&nbsp; I was completely astounded by the physical set.&nbsp; It\u2019s smart, slick, and looks like a million bucks.&nbsp; The fact that it seems to be identical to the set used for the shuttered UK tour doesn\u2019t take away from how great it is.&nbsp; Enormous credit must go to the lead.&nbsp; If you only know <strong>Michael Urie <\/strong>from <strong><em>Ugly Betty<\/em><\/strong>, you\u2019re in for a treat.&nbsp; I\u2019ve seen him in <strong><em>Buyer &amp; Cellar<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Torch Song Trilogy<\/em><\/strong>, so I know he\u2019s a theatrical animal.&nbsp; But in the role <strong>Tom Hanks <\/strong>played in the film, Urie gives a galvanizing and nuanced performance which holds the whole show together with ease.&nbsp; My pal <strong>Charles Shaughnessy <\/strong>plays Sir Leigh Teabing with aplomb and provides a good amount of sly humor in just the right places.&nbsp; While I\u2019m singling people out, I must note <strong>David T. Patterson<\/strong>, who not only is a very good actor, but who titillates with his magnificent body (unfortunate lashed back makeup notwithstanding).&nbsp; It runs until September 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, so check it out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.OgunquitPlayhouse.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>OgunquitPlayhouse.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I left New England, I zipped up to the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine to catch the US premiere of a play version of The Da Vinci Code.&nbsp; I\u2019m surely in the minority of people who never read the book or saw the movie.&nbsp; But I\u2019m delighted to say I not only followed 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91777","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\/91777","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=91777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91778,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91777\/revisions\/91778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}