{"id":95056,"date":"2026-05-10T22:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95056"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:58:37","slug":"whos-in-whos-out-on-bway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/05\/10\/whos-in-whos-out-on-bway\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s In, Who&#8217;s Out on Bway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Tony <\/em>nominations were just announced.&nbsp; I hope I\u2019m not being too predictable when I admit I was elated by the omission of <strong>Lea Michele<\/strong>.&nbsp; She wants it so badly she can taste it.&nbsp; Well, maybe that\u2019s how she stays so slim.&nbsp; She\u2019s on a steady diet of snubs!&nbsp; Congrats to <strong>June Squibb <\/strong>who made history as the oldest acting nominee (she\u2019s 96).<\/p>\n<p>The big news on <em>Broadway <\/em>continues to be <strong><em>Oh, Mary!<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; And they proved me wrong.&nbsp; Apparently a woman can be successful in the role of <strong>Mary Todd Lincoln <\/strong>\u2013 if that woman is <strong>Maya Rudolph<\/strong>.&nbsp; With the <strong><em>SNL<\/em><\/strong> vet in the leading role, the play broke its own record and brought in $1.5 million at the box office.&nbsp; Now that she\u2019s opened the door, perhaps other <em>SNL<\/em> alums will get a shot \u2013 like the always underestimated <strong>Cheri Oteri<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>By the by, <em>Oh, Mary! <\/em>has announced the cities for a national tour.&nbsp; It kicks off in Hartford, CT on September 19<sup>th<\/sup> and is slated to hit 16 other cities into 2027.&nbsp; No word on casting&#8230;yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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>In some positive political news, the administration of <em>El Presidente <\/em>has agreed to restore the Pride flag at the <strong><em>Stonewall<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>National Monument<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; As you\u2019ll recall, it was unceremoniously removed back in February since it did not represent the administration\u2019s \u201cofficial sentiments\u201d.&nbsp; People flew their own flags and launched a legal battle against the <em>National Park Service<\/em>.&nbsp; Last week, a settlement was proposed that would allow the Pride flag to be flown alongside the US flag \u2013 unless there\u2019s a maintenance issue or any other concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tony nominations were just announced.&nbsp; I hope I\u2019m not being too predictable when I admit I was elated by the omission of Lea Michele.&nbsp; She wants it so badly she can taste it.&nbsp; Well, maybe that\u2019s how she stays so slim.&nbsp; She\u2019s on a steady diet of snubs!&nbsp; Congrats to June Squibb who made<\/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-95056","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\/95056","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=95056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95057,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95056\/revisions\/95057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}