{"id":233,"date":"2014-08-20T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T08:56:43","slug":"last-chance-to-see-porgy-and-bess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Last Chance to see Porgy and Bess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #2b2e30;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/openairtheatre.com\/production\/the-gershwinsbrporgy-and-bess\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-234 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/opentheatre-251x300.png\" alt=\"opentheatre\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/opentheatre-251x300.png 251w, http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/opentheatre.png 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>For a few more days (<i>until 23rd August 2014<\/i>) you have the chance to see\u00a0<em>Porgy and Bess <\/em>on the Open Air Theatre &#8211; Regent&#8217;s Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2b2e30;\">A powerful story of love and betrayal,\u00a0<em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>\u00a0is celebrated as a landmark piece of American theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Porgy, a crippled beggar, is devoted to taming wild Bess and saving her from a life of ruin. Yet new beginnings give way to temptation as Bess is haunted by the demons of her past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2b2e30;\">Directed by Timothy Sheader, this musical masterpiece includes\u00a0<em>\u2018I Got Plenty of Nothing\u2019<\/em>,\u00a0<em>\u2018It Ain\u2019t Necessarily So\u2019<\/em>,\u00a0<em>\u2018I Loves You Porgy\u2019<\/em>\u00a0and the poignantly beautiful\u00a0<em>\u2018Summertime\u2019<\/em>, an icon of the Great American Songbook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2b2e30;\">Drawing on talent from both sides of the Atlantic\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Rufus Bonds Jr<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Nicola Hughes<\/span>\u00a0take the title roles. Rufus received a Drama Desk nomination for the original US production of\u00a0<em>Parade<\/em>, and Nicola revisits the role of Bess following her Olivier Award nominated performance in Trevor Nunn\u2019s 2006 production.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Phillip Boykin<\/span>\u00a0reprises the role of Crown for which he received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for the 2012 Broadway production. Olivier Award winner\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Sharon D Clarke<\/span>\u00a0also joins the cast as Mariah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few more days (until 23rd August 2014) you have the chance to see\u00a0Porgy and Bess on the Open Air Theatre &#8211; Regent&#8217;s Park. A powerful story of love and betrayal,\u00a0Porgy and Bess\u00a0is celebrated as a landmark piece of American theatre. Porgy, a crippled beggar, is devoted to taming wild Bess and saving her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theatres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.camdenflat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}