{"id":3236,"date":"2010-12-01T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2010-12-02T03:32:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T08:32:23","slug":"need-a-little-christmas-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3236","title":{"rendered":"Need a Little Christmas Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop singer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Morgan\">Jane Morgan<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0no Angela Lansbury (who is?) but she\u00a0sang the hell out of lead role in the original production of <em>Mame.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0If anything, this\u00a0December 15, 1968 performance of &#8220;We Need a Little Christmas&#8221; on The\u00a0Ed Sullivan Show let&#8217;s us see how the number looked onstage (choreography: Onna White). Two-time Tony-winner Helen Gallagher is Gooch (she would played Vera in this production- talk about versatility). I&#8217;m getting into the Christmas spirit and starting to live these lyrics once again. I&#8217;m looking forward to the holiday season and I hope you are as well.<\/p>\n<p>%CODE1%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop singer Jane Morgan\u00a0is\u00a0no Angela Lansbury (who is?) but she\u00a0sang the hell out of lead role in the original production of Mame.\u00a0\u00a0If anything, this\u00a0December 15, 1968 performance of &#8220;We Need a Little Christmas&#8221; on The\u00a0Ed Sullivan Show let&#8217;s us see how the number looked onstage (choreography: Onna White). Two-time Tony-winner Helen Gallagher is Gooch (she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Need a Little Christmas Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1130,2060,2039,1131,1132,1887],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-ed-sullivan","tag-helen-gallagher","tag-holidays","tag-jane-morgan","tag-mame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}