{"id":93787,"date":"2025-04-27T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93787"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:34:03","slug":"scherzy-and-the-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/04\/27\/scherzy-and-the-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Scherzy and The Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A different type of show happened at the <em>Broadway <\/em>production of <strong><em>Sunset Blvd<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; A matinee had to be cancelled due to some technical difficulty with the sound system.&nbsp; What made this a column-worthy item is that the audience was informed of the snafu by Norma Desmond herself.&nbsp; <strong>Nicole Scherzinger <\/strong>told them they could go to the box office and get tickets to an alternate performance or could get a refund.&nbsp; But before they left, she wanted to give them something for their trouble.&nbsp; Brandishing a bullhorn and playing a backing track through her cell phone, Scherzy belted out \u201cWith One Look\u201d \u2013 to considerable applause.&nbsp; You can see her impromptu performance on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on <em>Broadway<\/em>, <strong><em>Pirates!&nbsp; The Penzance Musical <\/em><\/strong>opened at the <em>Roundabout Theatre<\/em>.&nbsp; While any chance to see <strong>Ramin Karimloo <\/strong>unbuckle his swash is OK in my book, we send kudos (whatever they are) to the fantastic <strong>Jinkx Monsoon<\/strong>, who is assuming the role of Ruth, played by <strong>Angela Lansbury <\/strong>in the <strong>Kevin Kline <\/strong>film.&nbsp; Jinkx is getting rave reviews for her comic turn.&nbsp; There is even talk that she could snag a <em>Tony <\/em>nomination.&nbsp; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>When the <em>Tonys <\/em>are distributed on June 8<sup>th<\/sup>, someone very special will be getting a very special award.&nbsp; It\u2019s just been announced that the recipient of the <em>2025 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award <\/em>will be&#8230;. <strong>Harvey Fierstein<\/strong>!&nbsp; \u201cHarvey Fierstein\u2019s contributions to the American theatre, both as an artist and activist, represent an extraordinary legacy,\u201d said the committee about the four-time Tony winner (in competition, <strong>Miss Streisand<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A different type of show happened at the Broadway production of Sunset Blvd.&nbsp; A matinee had to be cancelled due to some technical difficulty with the sound system.&nbsp; What made this a column-worthy item is that the audience was informed of the snafu by Norma Desmond herself.&nbsp; Nicole Scherzinger told them they could go to<\/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,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93787"}],"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=93787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93788,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93787\/revisions\/93788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}