{"id":3874,"date":"2009-01-31T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2009-01-31T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:47:16","slug":"memphis-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/memphis-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis the Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3875\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3875\" title=\"memphismusical\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/memphismusical.jpg\" alt=\"Memphis the Musical\" width=\"540\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/memphismusical.jpg 540w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/memphismusical-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memphis the Musical<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was wondering if\u00a0 anyone has seen &#8220;Memphis&#8221; the musical and what they thought about it. All I know is that it&#8217;s playing February 2009 at the 5th Avenue in Seattle, WA. One of the writers is from Bon Jovi and it&#8217;s been receiving &#8220;critical acclaim&#8221; since it&#8217;s off-Broadway debut in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always fascinated when artists cross from mainstream art into more &#8220;legit&#8221; forms like theater and film. Comments?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEMPHIS the Musical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Memphis is a musical written by David Bryan (of Bon Jovi fame) and Joe DiPietro. It debuted off-Broadway in 2002 and has won critical acclaim since.<\/p>\n<p>The musical loosely follows the story of a Memphis DJ, Dewey Phillips &#8211; one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>The world premiere was at TheatreWorks in Mountain View, CA during their 2003-2004 season. It was picked up by San Diego&#8217;s La Jolla Playhouse for their 2008-2009 season with performances from August 19 to September 28, 2008. The production will be directed by Christopher Ashley. Scenic Design by David Gallo, Lighting Design by Howell Binkley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering if\u00a0 anyone has seen &#8220;Memphis&#8221; the musical and what they thought about it. All I know is that it&#8217;s playing February 2009 at the 5th Avenue in Seattle, WA. One of the writers is from Bon Jovi and it&#8217;s been receiving &#8220;critical acclaim&#8221; since it&#8217;s off-Broadway debut in 2002. I&#8217;m always fascinated [&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":[8],"tags":[2137,2142,2139,2141,2145,2131,2138,2133,2129,2143,2130,2127,2134,2146,2147,2132,2128,2136,1673,2135,2140],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-10u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874"}],"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=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}