{"id":92481,"date":"2024-03-31T18:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T01:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92481"},"modified":"2024-03-31T18:53:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T01:53:52","slug":"j-lo-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/03\/31\/j-lo-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"J-Lo on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I posted my review of the <em>Broadway <\/em>revival of <strong>Stephen Sondheim<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>Merrily We Roll Along<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I am pleased to report that I contributed to the show recouping its $12 million capitalization.&nbsp; Although I was at the Saturday matinee, a notable star attended the Sunday matinee \u2013 <strong>Jennifer Lopez<\/strong>.&nbsp; <em>J-Lo <\/em>(and her crew) attended because her child <strong>Emme <\/strong>wanted to see the show.&nbsp; I say \u201cchild\u201d because I\u2019m not exactly sure how to refer to Emme.&nbsp; While Emme was born female and the headlines about going to <em>Merrily<\/em> say, \u201cJennifer Lopez and Her Daughter Emme Enjoy a Date on Broadway\u201d, I seem to remember other articles saying that Emme is non-binary and eschews feminine pronouns.&nbsp; Jennifer refers to her twins as \u201cCoconuts\u201d, but I don\u2019t think I could use that term \u2013 particularly since <strong>Big Daddy Masters <\/strong>used to bathe me while singing, \u201cI\u2019ve Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts\u201d.&nbsp; But that\u2019s a story better left between me and my team of therapists.&nbsp; It should be mentioned that accompanying the photo of Emme hugging <em>Merrily<\/em> star <strong>Jonathan Groff<\/strong>, <em>People<\/em> magazine used the term \u201cthey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a story I hate to even bring up \u2013 because I know, and you know, and even <strong>Liza <\/strong>knows it was a typo.&nbsp; But what a typo it is!&nbsp; On April 13<sup>th<\/sup>, the <em>Mark Taper Forum <\/em>in Los Angeles is mounting <strong>Michael Feinstein<\/strong>\u2019s latest venture \u2013 <strong><em>Rainbow: The New Judy Garland Musical<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Not only has he put this show together, he\u2019s in it!&nbsp; I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Liza shows up \u2013 which makes this all the more juicy.&nbsp; The press release issued by the <em>Center Theatre Group <\/em>(parent company of the <em>Taper<\/em>) said the following: \u201cThe show is executive produced by Michael Feinstein and <strong>Liza Minelli<\/strong>.\u201d&nbsp; Don\u2019t they know?&nbsp; It\u2019s Liza with a \u201cZ\u201d, not Lisa with an \u201cS\u201d, \u2018cause Lisa with an \u201cS\u201d goes Ssss not Zzzz.&nbsp; It\u2019s \u201cZ\u201d instead of \u201cS\u201d, \u201cLy\u201d instead of \u201cLee\u201d.&nbsp; It\u2019s simple as could be.&nbsp; See, Liza.&nbsp; It\u2019s \u201cM\u201d \u201cI\u201d double \u201cN\u201d, then \u201cE\u201d double \u201cL\u201d \u201cI\u201d.&nbsp; You double up the \u201cN\u201d that\u2019s Nnnn not \u201cNu\u201d.&nbsp; Then \u201cE\u201d, double the \u201cL\u201d, end it with an \u201cI\u201d.&nbsp; That\u2019s the way you say \u201cMinnelli\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I posted my review of the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s Merrily We Roll Along.&nbsp; I am pleased to report that I contributed to the show recouping its $12 million capitalization.&nbsp; Although I was at the Saturday matinee, a notable star attended the Sunday matinee \u2013 Jennifer Lopez.&nbsp; J-Lo (and her crew) attended<\/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-92481","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\/92481","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=92481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92482,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92481\/revisions\/92482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}