{"id":92751,"date":"2024-06-23T21:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92751"},"modified":"2024-06-23T21:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:27:27","slug":"burnett-immortalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/06\/23\/burnett-immortalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnett Immortalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week\u2019s <strong><em>Tony Awards<\/em><\/strong>, an interesting discussion took place on social media.&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone asked why and how <strong>Audra McDonald <\/strong>would play Mama Rose in <strong><em>Gypsy<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 after all, <strong>Rose Hovick <\/strong>was a real person, and was white.&nbsp; Of course, I defended color-blind casting, and then brought up <strong><em>Hamilton<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; But it did get me thinking \u2013 what if the situation were reversed?&nbsp; Imagine the uproar if <strong>Kathleen Turner <\/strong>played the title role in <strong><em>The Rosa Parks Story<\/em><\/strong>?&nbsp; Still, I\u2019d pay good money to see her get on the bus saying, \u201cLordy, Lordy, I sho&#8217; is tired!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carol Burnett <\/strong>cemented her place in history by placing her handprints and footprints in cement.&nbsp; Obviously the ceremony took place at the legendary <em>Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre <\/em>(OK, now it\u2019s the <em>TLC Chinese Theatre<\/em>&#8230;soon to become the <em>TCL Asian-American Theatre<\/em>, I\u2019m sure).&nbsp; It was a fitting site since Burnett grew up a few blocks away.&nbsp; The honor happened after <strong><em>Palm Royale<\/em><\/strong> executive producers <strong>Laura Dern <\/strong>and <strong>Jayme Lemons <\/strong>learned Burnett had never been given this honor.&nbsp; They made a couple of calls and the theatre said, \u201cName the day.\u201d&nbsp; Congrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week\u2019s Tony Awards, an interesting discussion took place on social media.&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone asked why and how Audra McDonald would play Mama Rose in Gypsy \u2013 after all, Rose Hovick was a real person, and was white.&nbsp; Of course, I defended color-blind casting, and then brought up Hamilton.&nbsp; But it did get me thinking<\/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-92751","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\/92751","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=92751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92752,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92751\/revisions\/92752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}