{"id":8367,"date":"2013-08-22T19:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T02:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8367"},"modified":"2013-08-22T19:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T02:18:45","slug":"musicmusicals-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8367","title":{"rendered":"Music\/Musicals in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5006\" alt=\"userpic=theatre_musicals\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicmusicals.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"82\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Today&#8217;s lunchtime &#8230; ummm, make that dinnertime &#8230; news chum brings you some news about music and musicals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s a really interesting version of Jolene &#8212; slowed down from 45rpm to 33\u2153rpm. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/briangalindo\/dolly-partons-slowed-down-version-of-jolene-is-hauntingly-be\">Surprisingly, it works&#8230; and works well<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fame.<\/strong> Fame &#8212; the movie musical and TV show &#8212; may be returning to TV in some form. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/181373-Tony-Nominee-Debbie-Allen-Developing-Drama-Based-on-Fame-for-CW-Network\">Debbie Allen is developing a drama based on <em>Fame<\/em> for the CW Network<\/a>. Debbie, of course, was in the original film and TV show. Could be interesting if done right &#8212; certainly better than the covers of\u00a0<em>Glee<\/em>, and possibly with a less melodramatic story than <em>Smash<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hair<\/strong>. Producer Michael Butler is attempting to bring back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hairthemusical.com\/\"><em>Hair &#8211; The Musical<\/em><\/a> again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/hair\">This time he&#8217;s doing it as a crowd-sourced version<\/a>, with a large push of social activism. Interestingly, Ben Vereen is involved. Still&#8230;\u00a0<em>Hair<\/em> was recently on Broadway <a href=\"http:\/\/hairontour.com\/\">and on tour<\/a>, and there are the excellent regular productions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thetribeprod\">The Tribe<\/a> here in LA. Maybe he should have gone for <em>Two Gentlemen of Verona<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s lunchtime &#8230; ummm, make that dinnertime &#8230; news chum brings you some news about music and musicals: Dolly Parton. Here&#8217;s a really interesting version of Jolene &#8212; slowed down from 45rpm to 33\u2153rpm. Surprisingly, it works&#8230; and works well. Fame. Fame &#8212; the movie musical and TV show &#8212; may be returning to TV <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8367\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,69,28],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-television","category-theatre","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8371,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions\/8371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}