{"id":274174,"date":"2026-06-22T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274174\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:29:11","slug":"watch-billy-porter-sing-i-am-what-i-am-from-la-cage-aux-folles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274174\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Billy Porter Sing \u201cI Am What I Am\u201d From La Cage Aux Folles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Porter currently stars as Albin opposite Wayne Brady as Georges in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/shows\/new-york-city-theater\/off-broadway\/la-cage-aux-folles_1783010\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Cage Aux Folles<\/a> by Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman. Watch Porter sing Albin\u2019s show-stopping number \u201cI Am What I Am\u201d in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>The musical is running at New York City Center Encores! through June 28. TheaterMania\u2019s David Gordon wrote in his review, \u201cPorter meanwhile, has the makings of a fabulously scathing Albin\/Zaza, crafting an \u2018I Am What I Am\u2019 that feels like an exorcism of the \u2018Billy Porter\u2019 media persona that has dogged him for years and accrued as many detractors as admirers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Porter currently stars as Albin opposite Wayne Brady as Georges in La Cage Aux Folles by Harvey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-274174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}