{"id":289092,"date":"2026-07-07T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289092\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:34:44","slug":"ill-take-manhattan-cats-queens-celebrity-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/289092\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Take Manhattan \u2014 Cats, Queens &#038; Celebrity Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-grad-6-gradient-background has-background wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll Take Manhattan is W42ST\u2019s column from legendary NYC writer Michael Musto \u2014 a monthly dispatch from the city\u2019s stages, sidewalks and secret corners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Nik-Dodani-Michael-Musto-CTJB_9663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149159\"\/>Nik Dodani and Michael Musto were the celebrity judges at the July 5 matinee performance of Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Photo: Eric Emauni<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cats always seem to be sitting there and evaluating us, ever so knowingly, so it was finally time for me to judge them right back. The opportunity came when the three-Tony winning \u201crevisal\u201d\u00a0Cats: The Jellicle Ball \u2014 which breathtakingly re-envisions the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical as a voguing ball competition \u2014 asked me to be one of the two celebrity judges at the July 5th matinee. I was honored to do the job, along with actor Nik Dodani from CBS\u2019s upcoming legal drama\u00a0Cupertino. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/michael-musto\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cropped-Michael-Musto-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manhattan-born entertainment journalist Michael Musto cemented his role as a nightlife fixture with his irreverent Village Voice gossip column La Dolce Musto, launched in 1984. For decades he chronicled celebrity scandals and club culture with sharp wit, later authoring books and freelancing widely. Follow him on W42ST as he launches his new column, \u201cI\u2019ll Take Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/michael-musto\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Michael Musto\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll Take Manhattan is W42ST\u2019s column from legendary NYC writer Michael Musto \u2014 a monthly dispatch from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-289092","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\/289092","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=289092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}