{"id":229,"date":"2008-08-08T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/08\/the-shriner-ballet.html"},"modified":"2008-08-08T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T01:12:00","slug":"the-shriner-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"The Shriner Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chita Rivera recreates the original Gower Champion choreography for<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Bye Bye Birdie<\/span> for &#8220;The Shriner&#8217;s Ballet&#8221; with the American Dance Machine for a special called &#8220;That&#8217;s Singing, The Best of Broadway.&#8221; Rivera was Tony-nominated for her performance in the original production, in the featured actress category, but lost to Tammy Grimes who was &#8220;featured&#8221; in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Unsinkable Molly Brown<\/span>. Wasn&#8217;t that above the title billing nonsense a bit ridiculous?<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3ZldWwNZMmc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3ZldWwNZMmc&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>Chita Rivera recreates the original Gower Champion choreography for Bye Bye Birdie for &#8220;The Shriner&#8217;s Ballet&#8221; with the American Dance Machine for a special called &#8220;That&#8217;s Singing, The Best of Broadway.&#8221; Rivera was Tony-nominated for her performance in the original production, in the featured actress category, but lost to Tammy Grimes who was &#8220;featured&#8221; in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Shriner Ballet<\/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":[1904,1695,1903],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bye-bye-birdie","tag-chita-rivera","tag-the-shiner-ballet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}