{"id":94556,"date":"2025-12-21T22:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94556"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:49:39","slug":"strange-things-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/12\/21\/strange-things-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Things on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news was made on <em>Broadway <\/em>last week.&nbsp; In the show <strong><em>Stranger Things: The First Shadow<\/em><\/strong> (a prequel to the series), the lead is Henry, part of some lab experiment not unlike the Presley\/Keough\/Travolta situation listed above.&nbsp; His \u201cessence\u201d is used via blood transfusions to transform numerous children.&nbsp; We fast-forward at the end of the play to a grown-up Henry meeting the kids.&nbsp; Usually, <strong>Louis McCartney<\/strong>, who plays Henry, is aged with makeup.&nbsp; The scene begins with him in a chair with his back to the audience.&nbsp; But on December 19<sup>th<\/sup>, when Henry got up and turned around, he was revealed to be <strong>Jamie Campbell Bower<\/strong>, who plays Henry on the series.&nbsp; The audience went crazy and stopped the show for several minutes, as you can see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/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>We hear that <strong>Ariana Grande <\/strong>and <strong>Jonathan Bailey <\/strong>could reunite to do the musical <strong><em>Sunday in the Park with George<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Can\u2019t we let poor <strong>Stephen Sondheim <\/strong>rest in peace?&nbsp; To be completely accurate, they are not talking about doing a film version.&nbsp; They are considering a revival of the musical in London.&nbsp; It would likely turn up at the <em>Barbican Theatre<\/em>, which has seen summer limited runs of musicals.&nbsp; They are eyeing summer 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a musical version of <strong><em>Beaches<\/em><\/strong> had a sold-out run in Alberta, Canada.&nbsp; Originally, the producers planned to mount a US national tour and eventually hit <em>Broadway<\/em>.&nbsp; Then the <em>Majestic Theatre <\/em>became available and plans changed.&nbsp; The musical will now hit <em>Broadway <\/em>on April 22<sup>nd<\/sup> and is scheduled to run through the summer.<\/p>\n<p>By the by, the current <strong><em>Superman<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>David Corenswet<\/strong>, is in talks to make his <em>Broadway <\/em>debut in a revival of <strong><em>Carousel<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; In case you\u2019re interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news was made on Broadway last week.&nbsp; In the show Stranger Things: The First Shadow (a prequel to the series), the lead is Henry, part of some lab experiment not unlike the Presley\/Keough\/Travolta situation listed above.&nbsp; His \u201cessence\u201d is used via blood transfusions to transform numerous children.&nbsp; We fast-forward at the end of the<\/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\/94556"}],"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=94556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94557,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94556\/revisions\/94557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}