{"id":164,"date":"2008-06-04T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/06\/gwen-verdon-chita-rivera-nowadayshot-honey-rag.html"},"modified":"2010-11-02T04:25:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T08:25:38","slug":"gwen-verdon-chita-rivera-nowadayshot-honey-rag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Verdon &amp; Chita Rivera: &quot;Nowadays\/Hot Honey Rag&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Cosell\">The Howard Cosell Show<\/a><\/em> in 1975, we get <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_%28musical%29\">Chicago<\/a> <\/em>as it should be performed. (Costumes&#8230;? For real??) Can you believe it&#8217;s almost eight years since we lost <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gwen_Verdon\">Gwen Verdon<\/a>? Such a natural treasure. And how lucky are we that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chita_Rivera\">Chita Rivera<\/a> is still performing? I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that Ms. Rivera should receive a standing ovation any time she walks into a room. Enjoy this:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/md2FBmv6VDI&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/md2FBmv6VDI&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one, plus interview with Mike Douglas and Hal Linden. The two ladies are nothing short of classy and gracious. I love how proud Gwen is of having a flop play, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdb.com\/production.php?id=3646\">Children! Children!<\/a> <\/em>It ran 65 minutes with no intermission on its one and only performance. And Chita even talks about <em><a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayworld.com\/shows\/?showid=5974\">1491<\/a>, <\/em>&#8220;marked down from <em>1776.&#8221;<\/em> Then <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Orbach\">Jerry Orbach<\/a> joins in too and performs &#8220;Razzle Dazzle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4w5tRzTrqrA&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4w5tRzTrqrA&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lH-fQnwY5H0&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lH-fQnwY5H0&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YLsM6PpOXbA&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YLsM6PpOXbA&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Howard Cosell Show in 1975, we get Chicago as it should be performed. (Costumes&#8230;? For real??) Can you believe it&#8217;s almost eight years since we lost Gwen Verdon? Such a natural treasure. And how lucky are we that Chita Rivera is still performing? I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that Ms. Rivera should receive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gwen Verdon &amp; Chita Rivera: &quot;Nowadays\/Hot Honey Rag&quot;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1818,1695,1820,1819],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-chita-rivera","tag-gwen-verdon","tag-jerry-orbach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}