{"id":196,"date":"2008-07-07T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/07\/silas-botwin-sings.html"},"modified":"2008-07-07T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T15:24:00","slug":"silas-botwin-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Silas Botwin Sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1446060\/\">Hunter Parrish<\/a> who is most noted for his portrayal of Nancy Botwin&#8217;s older son on the hit Showtime series <em>Weeds, <\/em>one of my all-time favorite television shows, will make his Broadway debut as Melchior Gabor in the laugh-a-minute musical comedy riot <em>Spring Awakening <\/em>this August. As pleased as I am to see a younger actor with such a rising profile so willing to work on stage, I&#8217;m sorry to say it wouldn&#8217;t be enough to make me ever go see the show again.<\/p>\n<p>However you can&#8217;t deny the kid&#8217;s got enthusiasm. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/119237.html\">Playbill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In a statement actor Parrish said, &#8220;I have always hoped that my passion for the  theatre would eventually lead me to Broadway. <i>Spring Awakening<\/i> is a truly  one-of-a-kind show with its timeless story, commanding music and innovative  imagery. I am elated to have the opportunity to become a part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite fortunate &#8211; this is the first year I&#8217;ve had Showtime, so I can now actually catch the series as it&#8217;s airing. Still one of the more innovative series out there &#8211; Mary Louise Parker continues to amaze me, as does most of the cast and writers, frankly. Not to mention it&#8217;s made me a fan of Malvina Reynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Parrish who is most noted for his portrayal of Nancy Botwin&#8217;s older son on the hit Showtime series Weeds, one of my all-time favorite television shows, will make his Broadway debut as Melchior Gabor in the laugh-a-minute musical comedy riot Spring Awakening this August. As pleased as I am to see a younger actor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silas Botwin Sings<\/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":[1857,1567,1744],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hunter-parrish","tag-spring-awakening","tag-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}