{"id":194,"date":"2008-07-06T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/07\/when-youre-good-to-mrs-brady.html"},"modified":"2008-07-06T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T17:44:00","slug":"when-youre-good-to-mrs-brady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"When You&#8217;re Good to Mrs. Brady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though most of you remember her as the perennial TV mom, Mrs. Carol Brady from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Brady Bunch <\/span>and its various offshoots into variety, comedy and even drama over the years, Florence Henderson was a premiere musical theatre ingenue in the 1950s. She made her Broadway debut in the chorus of Harold Rome&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wish You Were Here. <\/span>She continued to make a name for herself in national tours (most notably the first road company of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Sound of Music), <\/span> Laurey in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Oklahoma!<\/span> at the City Center (with Barbara Cook as Ado Annie), the title role in Rome&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Fanny<\/span> and a superlative turn in the final Noel Coward musical <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Girl Who Came to Supper, <\/span>her final Broadway appearance to date. TV soon called, and of course, Wesson Oil.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here she is in an entirely new realm. Leather mama&#8230;? This is a kinky spin on a Kander and Ebb favorite at a tribute of theirs a few years ago. Say whatever you will about the performance, she looks phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zD156wvOvSg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zD156wvOvSg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though most of you remember her as the perennial TV mom, Mrs. Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch and its various offshoots into variety, comedy and even drama over the years, Florence Henderson was a premiere musical theatre ingenue in the 1950s. She made her Broadway debut in the chorus of Harold Rome&#8217;s Wish You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When You&#8217;re Good to Mrs. Brady<\/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":[],"tags":[1854,1855,1665],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-florence-henderson","tag-kander-and-ebb","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}