{"id":93043,"date":"2024-09-22T21:31:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93043"},"modified":"2024-09-22T21:31:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:31:22","slug":"alyssa-and-whoopi-onstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/09\/22\/alyssa-and-whoopi-onstage\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa and Whoopi Onstage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must admit, sometimes even I miss things.  For instance, did you know that Alyssa Milano <\/strong>just joined the Broadway <\/em>cast of Chicago<\/em><\/strong>?  Well, that\u2019s likely not much of a surprise.  I mean…Melanie<\/strong>, Ariana<\/strong>, Christie<\/strong>, Pamela<\/strong>.  Why not Milano?  She\u2019s there until November 10th<\/sup>.  By the by, this marks Alyssa\u2019s Broadway <\/em>debut.  Now, I know someone out there is asking if Alyssa appeared in Annie<\/em><\/strong> as a kid.  Well, yes and no.  Yes, when she was 7 (or 8 \u2013 sources vary), she joined the second national tour of Annie<\/em>.  Not as Annie herself, but as one of the orphans \u2013 at one point she was July, at another point she was Kate <\/strong>(the only difference likely being which scrub brush she used for \u201cIt\u2019s a Hard Knock Life\u201d).  But Alyssa never appeared on Broadway <\/em>in any Annie<\/em> production.<\/p>\n

That said, Annie<\/em> is returning to NYC \u2013 although Madison<\/em> Square<\/em> Garden<\/em> sure ain\u2019t Broadway<\/em>.  But a bona fide Broadway <\/em>star will be appearing in this latest incarnation \u2013 Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong>.  Prior to the NYC run, the show will play Chicago in November.  Then it will schlep to NYC, where Whoopi will join the cast during the second week of the run (her first show is December 11th<\/sup>).  It\u2019s there until January 5th<\/sup>, and then continues touring sans <\/em>Whoopi.<\/p>\n

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In case you haven\u2019t heard, Whoopi\u2019s Clara\u2019s Heart<\/em><\/strong> co-star, Neil Patrick Harris<\/strong>, is also returning to the New York stage.  And he ain\u2019t alone.  He\u2019ll be co-starring with such folk as Jane Krakowski<\/strong>, Debra Messing<\/strong>, Billy Magnussen <\/strong>and Constance Wu<\/strong>.  The show is Robert O\u2019Hara<\/strong>\u2019s Shit. Meet. Fan.<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 which is a stage version of the 2016 film Perfect Strangers<\/em><\/strong>.  What might surprise you is that this starry production will take place at the Robert W. Wilson <\/em><\/strong>MCC<\/em><\/strong> Theater Space<\/em><\/strong>, which only has 450 seats \u2013 talk about intimate!  Performances begin on October 10th<\/sup> and run through December 1st<\/sup>.  You can grab what few tickets are left at MCCTheater.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several of you have asked me how Patti LuPone <\/strong>can be on Broadway <\/em>(with and without Miss Farrow<\/strong>) since she famously gave up her Equity <\/em>card \u2013 Equity <\/em>being the union governing Broadway <\/em>performers.  While Patti has not rejoined the union, she is working under an Equity <\/em>contract through their \u201cfinancial core\u201d loophole.  This means the production has to treat her as a member, and she has to pay the equivalent of membership dues to the union.  But she does not have certain rights \u2013 such as the ability to vote in union matters or run for office.  So, for now, Brooke Shields <\/strong>is safe (FYI \u2013 she is Equity<\/em>\u2019s Madam President<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must admit, sometimes even I miss things.  For instance, did you know that Alyssa Milano just joined the Broadway cast of Chicago?  Well, that\u2019s likely not much of a surprise.  I mean…Melanie, Ariana, Christie, Pamela.  Why not Milano?  She\u2019s there until November 10th.  By the by, this marks Alyssa\u2019s Broadway debut.  Now, I know<\/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-93043","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\/93043","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=93043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93044,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93043\/revisions\/93044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}