{"id":1026,"date":"2013-12-23T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2013-12-23T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T20:33:32","slug":"review-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Review:  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Stephen Sondheim musical is currently playing at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC.\u00a0 We took the entire family to see it on Friday night, and it was enthusiastically endorsed by everyone (even the 12 year old boy who was definitely <strong>not<\/strong> enthusiastic about going).\u00a0 The humor is occasionally off-color, but most of the humor is a result of comedic slapstick and timing.\u00a0 The characters even occasionally interact with the audience.\u00a0 In one memorable scene, the main character is supposed to steal another character\u2019s potion book out of his pocket but inadvertently fails to do so.\u00a0 (This is not part of the play\u2014he just goofed.)\u00a0 The main character comes back on stage and promises to rehearse harder to get it right for the next performance.\u00a0 And then starts laughing.\u00a0 It was hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>And in the climactic \u201cdeath\u201d scene, the main character ad libs the humor so successfully that every character onstage breaks character at some point during the scene because he or she can\u2019t stop laughing.\u00a0 Somehow, this made the scene even funnier.<\/p>\n<p>All the actors are excellent, but Bruce Dow, who plays the main character, is without doubt the star of the show.\u00a0 His comedic genius is what makes this production so successful.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the show, the audience is present to witness a (successful) proposal to one of the cast members.\u00a0 It was a fitting end to a highly entertaining evening.\u00a0 (Although I hope she doesn\u2019t regret the costume she was wearing at the time of the proposal.)\u00a0 J<\/p>\n<p>We give the production four thumbs up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Stephen Sondheim musical is currently playing at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC.\u00a0 We took the entire family to see it on Friday night, and it was enthusiastically endorsed by everyone (even the 12 year old boy who was definitely not enthusiastic about going).\u00a0 The humor is occasionally off-color, but most of the humor [&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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82,98,29],"tags":[128,342,333,129,130],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-musicals","category-shakespeare-theatre","tag-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum","tag-musicals","tag-shakespeare-theatre","tag-sondheim","tag-washington-dc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-gy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}