{"id":94862,"date":"2026-03-16T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94862"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:01:05","slug":"broadway-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/broadway-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of <strong><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/strong> alums, we have a truly special announcement to make.&nbsp; <strong>Maya Rudolph <\/strong>will be the latest person to take on the role of <strong>Mary Todd Lincoln <\/strong>in <strong><em>Oh, Mary!<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201c<em>Oh, Mary!<\/em> is the funniest play I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of plays, you\u2019d be surprised.&nbsp; It\u2019s such an honor to play the role of Mary, especially after so many iconic Marys have come before me.&nbsp; So making my <em>Broadway <\/em>debut in the role of a lifetime \u2013 as a miserable, suffocated, alcoholic woman \u2013 is a real dream come true,\u201d said Maya.&nbsp; She begins her run on April 28<sup>th<\/sup> and will stay with the show for eight weeks, ending on June 20<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, <strong><em>Chicago<\/em><\/strong> has announced its latest cast changes.&nbsp; Currently in the revolving door of Roxie Hart is <strong>Whitney Leavitt<\/strong>, from <strong><em>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/em><\/strong>. &nbsp;She will soon be reunited with her partner from <strong><em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Mark Ballas<\/strong>.&nbsp; He will take on the role of Billy Flynn for a limited four-week run starting on April 5<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Ballas previously played <strong>Frankie Valli <\/strong>in <strong><em>Jersey Boys<\/em><\/strong> on <em>Broadway <\/em>and for portions of the national tour, and returned to the <em>Great White Way <\/em>playing Charlie in <strong><em>Kinky Boots<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I actually think <em>Chicago<\/em> will be his sweet spot \u2013 especially if they give Billy a tad more dancing than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Saturday Night Live alums, we have a truly special announcement to make.&nbsp; Maya Rudolph will be the latest person to take on the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary!.&nbsp; \u201cOh, Mary! is the funniest play I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of plays, you\u2019d be surprised.&nbsp; It\u2019s<\/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-94862","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\/94862","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=94862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94863,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94862\/revisions\/94863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}