{"id":94005,"date":"2025-07-06T22:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T05:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94005"},"modified":"2025-07-06T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T05:18:19","slug":"hercules-in-fishnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/07\/06\/hercules-in-fishnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hercules in Fishnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, a live stage musical based on <em>Disney<\/em>\u2019s animated feature <strong><em>Hercules<\/em><\/strong> began previews at London\u2019s <em>Drury<\/em> <em>Lane<\/em> <em>Theatre<\/em>.&nbsp; Advanced word has been mixed, but certainly the titular Hercules does not disappoint.&nbsp; In fact, his titulars are in full view for most of the evening in costumes that appear to have come out of a vintage <em>International Male<\/em> catalogue.&nbsp; I am certainly the last one to say anything against a white mesh tank top.&nbsp; But I\u2019m just not sure it has anything to do with Ancient Greece, or even the musical <strong><em>Grease<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Actor <strong>Luke Brady <\/strong>looks good in what little garb he\u2019s wearing, but his preening and likeable smile seem straight out of an audition for a <em>Pepsodent <\/em>commercial!&nbsp; Still, he can sing, as you\u2019ll see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but think the producers missed the boat when it came to casting.&nbsp; Sexy <strong>Zane Phillips <\/strong>has actually coveted the role and was hoping to get a call.&nbsp; \u201cI would love to do it.&nbsp; It\u2019s so funny like, I have a musical theater background.&nbsp; I\u2019ve sung that song in a weird, random cabaret before.&nbsp; Yeah, I love that movie.\u201d&nbsp; Needless to say, the song he\u2019s talking about is \u201cGo the Distance\u201d, and because we know you\u2019ll ask, you can see (and hear) Zane tackle the little ditty on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, a live stage musical based on Disney\u2019s animated feature Hercules began previews at London\u2019s Drury Lane Theatre.&nbsp; Advanced word has been mixed, but certainly the titular Hercules does not disappoint.&nbsp; In fact, his titulars are in full view for most of the evening in costumes that appear to have come out of a<\/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\/94005"}],"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=94005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94006,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94005\/revisions\/94006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}