{"id":2208,"date":"2009-09-27T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2009-09-28T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T22:17:56","slug":"we-are-off-to-the-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"We Are Off To South Coast Reperatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s to Stephen Sondheim! We\u2019re having a party to celebrate the legendary musical genius. It\u2019s an elegant evening, filled with his most memorable songs\u2014from tender to passionate, from bittersweet to melancholy\u2014and you\u2019re invited. In a posh Manhattan condo, a glamorous couple looks back on what went wrong, to taunt, tease and maybe gloat a little. Their young guests are more starry-eyed but still wary, even as they begin to fall in love. Nearby, an astute observer adds his insightful songs to the mix. And what songs! They\u2019re all Sondheim, which means all sophisticated and smart and drop-dead droll.\u00a0 As soon as the play is over, we head for the Jam session at the Elks Lodge for dinner dancing into the small hours!<\/p>\n<p><center>[pro-player width=&#8217;450&#8242; height=&#8217;353&#8242; type=&#8217;FLV&#8217; image=&#8217;\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/09\/putting_it_together.jpg&#8217;]http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/09\/putting_it_together.flv[\/pro-player]<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s to Stephen Sondheim! We\u2019re having a party to celebrate the legendary musical genius. It\u2019s an elegant evening, filled with his most memorable songs\u2014from tender to passionate, from bittersweet to melancholy\u2014and you\u2019re invited. In a posh Manhattan condo, a glamorous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=2208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[45,53,144],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater","tag-ocpac","tag-south-coast-rep","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}