{"id":351104,"date":"2026-06-26T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351104\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:06:16","slug":"out-at-stages-houston-for-spamilton-with-21-chump-street-outsmart-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351104\/","title":{"rendered":"Out At Stages Houston For \u201dSpamilton\u201d with 21 Chump Street \u2013 OutSmart Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-192868 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_0024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"884\"  \/>Guests attended Stages\u2019 Spamilton: An American Parody, a comic sendup of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s Hamilton. (Photos by Dalton DeHart)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stages\u2019 run of Spamilton: An American Parody with 21 Chump Street: The Musical brought a sharp, fast-moving dose of musical-theater satire to Houston from May 29 through June 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The production paired Gerard Alessandrini\u2019s Hamilton sendup with Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s compact musical 21 Chump Street, offering audiences an evening that was both smartly irreverent and knowingly theatrical. Marketed as \u201csmart, silly, and convulsively funny,\u201d the double bill leaned into parody, pop-culture fluency, and the kind of rapid-fire humor that rewarded fans of Broadway, politics, and musical theater alike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As part of the run, OutSmart co-sponsored a pre-show reception on June 18, giving guests a chance to gather before the performance and celebrate a production that had earned strong audience interest throughout its engagement. The event also arrived with OutSmart\u2019s 2025 Gayest &amp; Greatest Readers\u2019 Choice Awards recognition for Stages, underscoring the theater\u2019s continued connection to Houston\u2019s LGBTQ community and its place in the city\u2019s performing-arts landscape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_0024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"envira_noscript_images \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guests attended Stages\u2019 Spamilton: An American Parody, a comic sendup of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s Hamilton. (Photos by Dalton DeHart)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-351104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}