{"id":95034,"date":"2026-05-04T02:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95034"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:18:19","slug":"divas-simply-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/divas-simply-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Divas Simply Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kathy Griffin <\/strong>has been added to the list of participants for <strong><em>Liza at 80! A Celebration in Song and Dance<\/em><\/strong> at <em>Carnegie Hall <\/em>on June 25<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; One assumes she will neither sing nor dance, but others on the bill who can do both include <strong>Mario Cantone<\/strong>, <strong>Andrew Rannells<\/strong>, <strong>Kristin Chenoweth<\/strong>, <strong>Donna Murphy <\/strong>and <strong>Beth Leavel<\/strong>.&nbsp; Will <strong>Liza <\/strong>actually appear?&nbsp; <strong>Minnelli <\/strong>issued a statement: \u201cI am grateful and honored that my collaborators and career are being celebrated at <em>Carnegie Hall <\/em>this Summer&#8230;I hope to see all my New York friends at the performance.\u201d&nbsp; I hope to see <strong>Matt Bomer <\/strong>naked, and that\u2019s more likely to happen than Liza performing onstage at <em>Carnegie Hall<\/em>.&nbsp; Here\u2019s an idea.&nbsp; Kathy Griffin always travels by private plane.&nbsp; If it is wheelchair accessible, maybe she can give Liza a lift.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I was at <em>Carnegie Hall <\/em>was to see the legendary <em>Queen of Salsa<\/em>, <strong>Celia Cruz<\/strong>.&nbsp; Fun fact \u2013 my first extended onscreen interview was with Celia \u2013 even though, as she said, \u201cmy English is not too good looking\u201d.&nbsp; Cruz will be the first Afro-Latina artist to be inducted into the <strong><em>Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; <em>Azucar<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Another legendary diva got quite a thrill on her 85<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.&nbsp; <strong>Ann-Margret <\/strong>was honored by the <em>USO <\/em>for her \u201cdecades of service\u201d.&nbsp; In one of those moments of kismet, the day she was presented with the commemorative <strong><em>USO Challenge Coin <\/em><\/strong>was also the organization\u2019s 85<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.&nbsp; \u201cThose tours and all my guys mean the world to me.&nbsp; I remember all of them&#8230;ALL of them.\u201d&nbsp; Congrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Griffin has been added to the list of participants for Liza at 80! A Celebration in Song and Dance at Carnegie Hall on June 25th.&nbsp; One assumes she will neither sing nor dance, but others on the bill who can do both include Mario Cantone, Andrew Rannells, Kristin Chenoweth, Donna Murphy and Beth Leavel.&nbsp;<\/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\/95034"}],"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=95034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95036,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95034\/revisions\/95036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}