{"id":15627,"date":"2014-06-18T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15627"},"modified":"2014-06-18T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:34:40","slug":"madonna-attends-preview-of-tupac-broadway-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/18\/madonna-attends-preview-of-tupac-broadway-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna attends preview of Tupac Broadway musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15755\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Madonna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15755\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Madonna.jpg\" alt=\"cinemafestival \/ Shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Madonna.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Madonna-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cinemafestival \/ Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; One of Tupac Shakur&#8217;s old friends celebrated his birthday by seeing a new play inspired by his music.<\/p>\n<p>Madonna attended a preview of &#8220;Holler If Ya Hear Me&#8221; in New York City on Monday, which would have been the rapper&#8217;s 43rd birthday. Shakur died in 1996 at age 25.<\/p>\n<p>The musical officially opens Thursday at the Palace Theatre. It uses Shakur&#8217;s songs to tell an original story about two young men dealing with life and tragedy in a Midwestern industrial city. Recent Tony winner Kenny Leon is directing.<\/p>\n<p>Madonna sat in the third row. Shakur&#8217;s mother and show producer, Afeni Shakur, also attended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holler If Ya Hear Me&#8221; uses some of the rap genius&#8217; well-known songs, including &#8220;California Love,&#8221; &#8220;Dear Mama,&#8221; &#8220;I Get Around&#8221; and &#8220;Keep Ya Head Up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; One of Tupac Shakur&#8217;s old friends celebrated his birthday by seeing a new play inspired by his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,106],"tags":[4209,5557,5556,1434,5555],"class_list":["post-15627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-hollywood","tag-broadway","tag-holler-if-ya-hear-me","tag-madonna","tag-musical","tag-tupac","mauthors-mesfin-fekadu","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}