{"id":1723,"date":"2007-05-26T23:40:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T05:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/oscar-hammerstein-ii-on-musicals\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T23:40:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T05:40:37","slug":"oscar-hammerstein-ii-on-musicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/oscar-hammerstein-ii-on-musicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Hammerstein II on Musicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;It is nonsense to say what a musical should or should not be. It should be anything it wants to be, and if you don&#8217;t like it you don&#8217;t have to go to it. There is only one absolutely indispensable element that a musical must have. It must have music. And there is only one thing that it has to be \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it has to be good.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; Oscar Hammerstien II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>as quoted by Stanley Green in The World of Musical Comedy (New York: Ziff Davis Publishing, 1960), p. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is nonsense to say what a musical should or should not be. It should be anything it wants to be, and if you don&#8217;t like it you don&#8217;t have to go to it. There is only one absolutely indispensable element that a musical must have. It must have music. And there is only one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-rN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}