{"id":94481,"date":"2025-12-01T00:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94481"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:45:05","slug":"kate-steve-kris-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/kate-steve-kris-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate, Steve, Kris &#8211; Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One rarely expects there to be a story about <strong>Kate Jackson<\/strong>.&nbsp; Yet, here we are.&nbsp; Kate was scheduled to appear at the <strong><em>Steel City Con <\/em><\/strong>in Pittsburgh.&nbsp; And then a curious thing happened.&nbsp; I\u2019ll let her tell you in her own, rambling way (curious capitalization is hers): \u201cTO EVERYONE I EXPECTED TO SEE IN PITTSBURG&#8230;I DID NOT CANCEL MY SCHEDULED APPEARANCE IN PITTSBURG DEC 5<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 7<sup>TH<\/sup>!!&nbsp; I HAVE NOT BEEN INFORMED BY THE SHOW THAT I SUPPOSEDLY \u2018Canceled\u2019.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t learn about the announcement to the effect until just a few minutes ago (9:30pm PST).&nbsp; Once again, I DID NOT CANCEL MY APPEARANCE IN PITTSBURG!&nbsp; I WOULDN\u2019T DO THAT!!&nbsp; I have no idea what\u2019s going on!&nbsp; Hopefully someone will tell me.&nbsp; In the meantime&#8230;I\u2019m upset that you were told that I had \u2018Canceled\u2019.&nbsp; It is simply not true.&nbsp; I did no such thing, in fact, I have no communications with Mr. Stein and I do not know why he made the untrue announcement that I had \u2018Canceled\u2019 without even telling me that I had.&nbsp; Love to all, Kate.\u201d&nbsp; So there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If one looks at the career of <strong>Stephen Schwartz<\/strong>, one is amazed at the diversity.&nbsp; For every <strong><em>Pippin<\/em><\/strong>, there\u2019s a <strong><em>Magic Show<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; For every <strong><em>Prince of Egypt<\/em><\/strong>, there\u2019s a <strong><em>Geppetto<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; For every <strong><em>Baker\u2019s Wife<\/em><\/strong>, there\u2019s a <strong><em>Working<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Well, in that case, neither actually worked \u2013 although the current <em>off-Broadway <\/em>production of <em>The Baker\u2019s Wife<\/em> hopes to turn that around.&nbsp; And now, for every <strong><em>Wicked<\/em><\/strong>, there\u2019s a <strong><em>Queen of Versailles<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; If only the latter were about <strong>Marie Antoinette<\/strong>, it may have had a shot.&nbsp; Alas, this is a Queen without a kingdom, and <strong>Kristin Chenoweth <\/strong>will find herself unemployed as of January 4<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Many are blaming Kris\u2019 reaction to the killing of <strong>Charlie Kirk<\/strong>, while those few others who actually saw the show blame it on the quality of the material itself.&nbsp; So while Schwartz can celebrate the success of <em>Wicked<\/em> on the big screen, <em>Broadway <\/em>has once again said thanks, but no thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One rarely expects there to be a story about Kate Jackson.&nbsp; Yet, here we are.&nbsp; Kate was scheduled to appear at the Steel City Con in Pittsburgh.&nbsp; And then a curious thing happened.&nbsp; I\u2019ll let her tell you in her own, rambling way (curious capitalization is hers): \u201cTO EVERYONE I EXPECTED TO SEE IN PITTSBURG&#8230;I<\/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\/94481"}],"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=94481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94482,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94481\/revisions\/94482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}