{"id":1328,"date":"2008-04-22T21:56:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T02:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/passing-strange\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T21:56:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T02:56:02","slug":"passing-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/passing-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"passing strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>So, instead of sitting at home tonight watching a bunch of Pennsylvania primary results that ultimately leave us in exactly the same place we were yesterday, I opted to go see a new Broadway show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passingstrangeonbroadway.com\/\">Passing Strange<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Definitely the right choice.  This ranks right up there with the best shows I&#8217;ve ever seen.  The music made me want to get up and dance, the humor had me laughing out loud, and the drama brought tears to my eyes.  I&#8217;d see it again in a heartbeat.  It&#8217;s technically a musical (and I hope it wins the Tony after years of Disney-fied crap), but it&#8217;s really more of a rock spectacle, charting the progression of &#8220;youth&#8221; as he tries on a host of different personae while trying to figure out who he is.  It&#8217;s apparently based on the life of the writer\/composer\/narrator, Stew.  I just marveled at how he could perform this show for 2 and a half hours every night, since he&#8217;s in every single scene.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s a hit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theater2.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/29\/theater\/reviews\/29stra.html\">New York Times Review &#8211; Passing Strange<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, instead of sitting at home tonight watching a bunch of Pennsylvania primary results that ultimately leave us in exactly the same place we were yesterday, I opted to go see a new Broadway show, Passing Strange. Definitely the right choice. This ranks right up there with the best shows I&#8217;ve ever seen. The music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[19,28],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-music","tag-theater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}