{"id":1393,"date":"2012-04-14T08:04:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T12:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2012-04-14T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T12:08:41","slug":"a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2012\/04\/14\/a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy the theater. Enough so that I have season tickets at the local one, three blocks from my apartment. And they&#8217;ve done a <em>really<\/em> good job since they reopened in their new facility (on the old grounds). But it seems like every season there&#8217;s one dud, and last night&#8217;s was it. <em>A Long Day&#8217;s Journey into Night<\/em> was more like <em>A Long Night&#8217;s Attempt to Keep From Falling Asleep<\/em>. Highlights from the audience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The boy said I&#8217;ve never been that fidgety in a play before.<\/li>\n<li>The one intermission came less than an hour into the play, which was three hours long.<\/li>\n<li>We both were checking our watched almost religiously to see when the three hour torture session would be over. <\/li>\n<li>In the first part one gentleman on the other side of the balcony was actually snoring (someone woke him, thankfully).<\/li>\n<li>Many, many heads were nodding, including the poor woman beside me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not good signs. <\/p>\n<p>I understand why the play won the pulitzer; its treatment of addiction in a time when such things weren&#8217;t discussed would have been ground-breaking. But in today&#8217;s bare-all environment, references to being a &#8220;drug fiend&#8221; are merely quaint. And you&#8217;ve <em>got<\/em> to work on the pacing of that particular play. There were massively long segments that just weren&#8217;t interesting or engaging. At all. <\/p>\n<p>Eh, as I said, they usually have one play that&#8217;s a dud, so this was it this season. The next two, <em>The Music Man<\/em> and <em>The Normal Heart<\/em> both look to be much more engaging. Thank heavens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy the theater. Enough so that I have season tickets at the local one, three blocks from my apartment. And they&#8217;ve done a really good job since they reopened in their new facility (on the old grounds). But it seems like every season there&#8217;s one dud, and last night&#8217;s was it. A Long Day&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snark","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}