{"id":92563,"date":"2024-04-28T21:57:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T04:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92563"},"modified":"2024-04-28T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T04:57:52","slug":"beantown-to-ptown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/04\/28\/beantown-to-ptown\/","title":{"rendered":"Beantown to Ptown"},"content":{"rendered":"

News about shows hitting Provincetown this summer continues to trickle in.  I was delighted to hear that my pal John McDaniel <\/strong>will be spending some time in Ptown this summer.  He\u2019ll have his hands in a number of shows at both the Post Office Caf\u00e9 and Cabaret <\/em>and Town Hall<\/em>.  People like Kate Baldwin<\/strong>, Max Clayton<\/strong>, Alice Ripley<\/strong>, Nicholas Rodriguez <\/strong>and Liz Callaway <\/strong>will join him at the Cabaret<\/em>, while Betty Buckley <\/strong>and Darren Criss <\/strong>will play Town Hall<\/em>.  Check out PostOfficeCafe.net<\/u><\/strong><\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

The Post Office <\/em>will also host many of my pals for various shows throughout the season.  Judy Gold <\/strong>will have you laughing all summer long.  Branden & James <\/strong>will be there July 12 and 13, and John Hill <\/strong>peddles his wares August 16.  A full schedule and tickets can be found at PostOfficeCafe.net<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nicolas King <\/strong>and Billy Stritch <\/strong>will also be at the Post Office <\/em>on August 9 and 10.  I was reminded of this when I spent time with Nicolas and Seth Sikes<\/strong> in Boston last week.  Collectively they\u2019re known as The New Belters<\/em><\/strong>, and they brought their new MGM<\/em> show to Boston\u2019s Club Caf\u00e9 <\/em>\u2013 and it was terrific.  Clever arrangements of classic tunes and some rare gems sung by two consumate showmen.  As usual, this duo delivers great vocals, witty banter, and they ain\u2019t so bad to look at!  They really do evoke a bygone era that I definitely enjoyed visiting for 90 minutes.  And, did I mention they ain\u2019t bad to look at?  Check them out if they come to your locale \u2013 or in Ptown or Fire Island or, basically, any place gays congregate.<\/p>\n

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During a recent trip to NYC, I asked my usual sources for tickets to the off-Broadway <\/em>hit, Oh, Mary!<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Cole Escola<\/strong>\u2019s play about that laugh riot, Mary Todd Lincoln<\/strong>.  Not only did all of the official avenues fail to secure a single ticket, even my unofficial sources came up dry…I hate when that happens!  So I was delighted to hear that this well-received queer venture will transfer to Broadway <\/em>this summer.  But then I thought about how daunting it is for a small-ish off-Broadway <\/em>show to successfully transfer from a 299-seat theatre to one seating 950.  Adding to my concern is the fact that the play is a slim 80 minutes.  Now, I like my theatre like I like my men \u2013 in and out and in the dark.  But at Broadway <\/em>prices, one might feel short-changed…which is never good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News about shows hitting Provincetown this summer continues to trickle in.  I was delighted to hear that my pal John McDaniel will be spending some time in Ptown this summer.  He\u2019ll have his hands in a number of shows at both the Post Office Caf\u00e9 and Cabaret and Town Hall.  People like Kate Baldwin, Max<\/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-92563","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\/92563","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=92563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92564,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92563\/revisions\/92564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}