{"id":609,"date":"2004-03-18T01:08:34","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T01:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/03\/thoroughly_mode\/"},"modified":"2004-03-18T01:08:34","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T01:08:34","slug":"thoroughly_mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/thoroughly_mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoroughly Modern Millie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an odd one. I don&#8217;t really like musicals that much. Indeed, I usually go out of my way to avoid them. Real theatre is drama to me. But when I was offered tickets to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmillie.co.uk\/\">this show<\/a> tonight, I immediatly accepted. Why?<br \/>\nWell it&#8217;s not because I&#8217;m an particular fan of the star, Amanda Holden. She seems to have had something of poor run of sitcoms with <i>Celeb<\/i> and <i>Mad About Alice<\/i>. And it&#8217;s not because I&#8217;m a big Anita Dobson fan &#8211; she&#8217;s just taken over from Maureen Lipman.<br \/>\nBut it is full of great music. And actually Amanda Holden is pretty good &#8211; much better than her comedy performances would have you believe (I never saw Cutting It). Anita Dobson is hilarious as Mrs Meers &#8211; a faux Chinese Hotelier. At the interval, we notice that her longstanding other half, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilooklikebrianmay.co.uk\">Brian May<\/a>, is sitting in front of us. Well not directly in front of us obviously, since I wouldn&#8217;t be able to see the stage for hair if he was. Sheila Ferguson, once of the Three Degrees, shows up everyone else&#8217;s singing, but don&#8217;t let that worry you.<br \/>\nThe story&#8217;s hackneyed. I&#8217;m one of the few there who evidently hasn&#8217;t seen the Julie Andrews&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062362\/\">film<\/a>, but it doesn&#8217;t matter. A great evening is had by all. We all go away humming the tunes and wishing we could tap dance&#8230; or is that just me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an odd one. I don&#8217;t really like musicals that much. Indeed, I usually go out of my way to avoid them. Real theatre is drama to me. But when I was offered tickets to this show tonight, I immediatly accepted. Why? Well it&#8217;s not because I&#8217;m an particular fan of the star, Amanda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}