{"id":1991,"date":"2012-03-29T08:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2012-04-05T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:02:29","slug":"oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"Oliver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamhippodrome.com\/WhatsOn_focus.asp?showId=1722\">Oliver!<\/a> at the Hippodrome last night.  Really enjoyed it, in particular the sets.  Some of the scenes of London were breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure whether a Fagin by Neil Morrissey would work but he pulled it off by making it his own.  He isn&#8217;t the greatest of singers, nor quite as menacing as the film&#8217;s Fagin, but he was funny and his acting was good.  The children were delightful and Nancy had an amazing voice.  The production was quite saucy, especially Oom-Pah-Pah.  All very good fun.<\/p>\n<p>Photography isn&#8217;t allowed in the theatre so here are a couple of images from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamhippodrome.com\/default.asp\">the website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Neil_Morrissey_Fagin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Neil_Morrissey_Fagin-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Neil Morrissey as Fagin (from http:\/\/www.birminghamhippodrome.com)\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Neil_Morrissey_Fagin-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Neil_Morrissey_Fagin.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Anything.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Anything-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I&#039;d Do Anything\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Anything-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Anything.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to watch Oliver! at the Hippodrome last night. Really enjoyed it, in particular the sets. Some of the scenes of London were breathtaking. I wasn&#8217;t sure whether a Fagin by Neil Morrissey would work but he pulled it off by making it his own. He isn&#8217;t the greatest of singers, nor quite as menacing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}