{"id":1985,"date":"2011-11-07T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2011-11-07T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:45:09","slug":"sondheims-cinderella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/sondheims-cinderella\/","title":{"rendered":"Sondheim&#8217;s Cinderella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>In my discussing this whole &#8220;beef up Priscilla thing&#8221; i thought i&#8217;d\u00a0show a video that exemplifies how to do what i wish to do&#8230;. perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>In a video which combines all 3 &#8216;Cinderella After The Ball&#8217; bits from the 1st Act of Into The Woods, we see Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist create a perfect template of character which the actress Kim Crosby then just slams out\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0park.<\/p>\n<p>In 6 minutes, 3 short scenes, we get a full character complete with foibles, personality, hang ups, quirks, endearingness&#8230; and in this example it&#8217;s particularly divine, because both the composer who created her and the actress who brings her to life are insanely talented, so that it&#8217;s hard to tell at first glance whose hand of brilliance is making the character be so rich. And the truth is, in any great collaboration where 2 real talents are involved, the whole is more than the sum of their parts. The lyrics and music are of a caliber i basically worship, but Kim Crosby&#8217;s delivery is what makes me stop being impressed and actually beLIEVE in and utterly care for the person i&#8217;m witnessing<\/p>\n<p>So i present this video. As i&#8217;ve said, i have very little time Act -wise to work with Priscilla. Much of what i already have needs to be there for other purposes. I have only a little bit of room to work with, but here we see what you can do with 6 minutes of character if you&#8217;re good enough.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=whVP3hURHaw]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how to do it. In my discussing this whole &#8220;beef up Priscilla thing&#8221; i thought i&#8217;d\u00a0show a video that exemplifies how to do what i wish to do&#8230;. perfectly. In a video which combines all 3 &#8216;Cinderella After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,417],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-songs","tag-theater","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}