\u2018Versailles\u2019 at home onstage<\/p>\n
Saturday brassy stage musical \u201cThe Queen of Versailles\u201d opened at the St. James.\u00a0Kristin Chenoweth\u00a0and\u00a0F. Murray Abraham\u00a0star<\/a>. Nobody\u2019s better.<\/p>\n Story: An over-everything ordinary blond, itchy to make\u00a0Dolly Parton\u00a0look shabby, wanted the largest $100M home in the US. <\/a>The husband built her a Versailles, only in Orlando alongside snakes and alligators. However, their high-level lifestyle went bust \u2014 as did her dreams, closets, lifestyle, house \u2014 just not the B\u2019way show.<\/p>\n So how long\u2019s a flossy glossy musical take to overtake Broadway? It\u2019s now 2025. In 2012 I saw its first incarnation. It became then a 100-minute doc about these Siegels whom nobody knew, or cared, but who built this 90,000-square-foot thing. Que pasa? They ran poor. Down to their last \u2014 pardon the expression \u2014 screw. Then Magnolia Pictures immortalized it.<\/p>\n Jackie Siegel\u00a0<\/a>was once Mrs. Florida. Hair \u2014 blond, Blond, BLOND. Neckline \u2014 low, Low, LOW. Dress \u2014 tight, Tight, TIGHT. Boobs \u2014 large, Large, LARGE. Stomach and behind protruding. At a luncheonette she requested caviar. OK? We\u2019re talking \u201cto the manner born.\u201d I reported she said: \u201cMy husband might sell this for $100 million \u2014 but I\u2019d come with it.\u201d I murmured that was a realty ploy to knock down the price. She stared at me.<\/p>\n P.S. This 90,000-square-foot hut is still not finished. They\u2019re probably waiting for a vacuum cleaner.<\/p>\n Tux luck for Sutherland<\/p>\n Yesterday\u2019s story about the late Donald Sutherland\u2019s delayed memoir <\/a>reminded me of 1994. A dais. We sat together honoring Canada\u2019s Ambassador Ken Taylor who\u2019d saved American hostages from getting killed in Iran\u2019s uprising which ousted the Shah and saved our embassy personnel until they could be rescued.\u00a0Ben Affleck\u2019s film \u201cArgo\u201d immortalized the experience. I was honored because I\u2019d been rescued from Tehran.<\/a> Sutherland was on the dais because he and Taylor knew one another from Canadian schools. Sutherland in a panic. It was black tie. \u201cMy butler packed the wrong jacket. Doesn\u2019t match the trousers,\u201d he lamented. The historic evening celebrated escaping death while Sutherland obsessed over his jacket.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Food for thought<\/p>\n As\u00a0Biden\u00a0sits in his basement spooning oatmeal off his chest and that caretaker wife scrapes off his ties, let us all search for good material about our electees. Tough to get good material nowadays. Why? Because the good jokes are already in Albany. I have to go now. I\u2019m having dinner with\u00a0Margo\u00a0and\u00a0John Catsimatidis\u00a0who own 77 WABC.<\/a> This is how hard workers such as myself get paid. It\u2019s dinners at the station. From opinions I may have heard, the food might even be better than whatever\u2019s been given to the terrific\u00a0Kristin Chenoweth\u00a0and\u00a0F.\u00a0Murray Abraham\u00a0\u2014 could even beat the popcorn.<\/p>\n So, one Queens shoe store put in a new order. A week later the manager received a letter saying, \u201cWe can\u2019t fill your order until full payment is made on your last shipment.\u201d The store manager wrote back: \u201cCancel the new order. We can\u2019t wait that long.\u201d<\/p>\n And that\u2019s Only in New York kids, Only in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Versailles\u2019 at home onstage Saturday brassy stage musical \u201cThe Queen of Versailles\u201d opened at the St. James.\u00a0Kristin Chenoweth\u00a0and\u00a0F.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[207,20408,17315,8091,9,24,63,299,20409,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-34334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-broadway","tag-f-murray-abraham","tag-kristin-chenoweth","tag-musicals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-queen-of-versailles","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334","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=34334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}