{"id":1464,"date":"2020-09-30T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2024-06-28T19:39:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:39:38","slug":"more-theatrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/more-theatrics\/","title":{"rendered":"More Theatrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are all packed full of &#8220;good tunes&#8221; and Oklahoma is no exception. One of the unexpected consequences of playing for a show with multiple rehearsals and then several public performances is that you end up knowing all the words &#8211; which I guess would be a bonus if I ever had to sing them in a karaoke contest \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt is the opening of Act 2 &#8211; the picture quality isn&#8217;t great, but the sound is fine. Aunt Eller (played here by Maureen Lipman) introduces a song which could really be a song for our times &#8211; replace &#8220;the farmer&#8221; and &#8220;the cowman&#8221; by any of the many groupings that are perpetually at each other&#8217;s throats. There is, I think, a surfeit of &#8220;us versus them&#8221; in the world and often the prevailing messages are divisive. Better that &#8220;the farmer and the cowman&#8221; (or whoever you wish to substitute) should indeed be friends.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rumeT1wOPzk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rogers &#038; Hammerstein :  Oklahoma &#8211; The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rumeT1wOPzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terry Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We went up to London to watch that show. I think Hugh Jackman was also in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are all packed full of &#8220;good tunes&#8221; and Oklahoma is no exception. One of the unexpected consequences of playing for a show with multiple rehearsals and then several public performances is that you end up knowing all the words &#8211; which I guess would be a bonus if I ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/more-theatrics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Theatrics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-musical-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}