{"id":401,"date":"2009-02-10T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/02\/gwen-verdon-the-pony-dance.html"},"modified":"2009-02-10T04:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:02:00","slug":"gwen-verdon-the-pony-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Verdon &#8211; &quot;The Pony Dance&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gwen Verdon recreates &#8220;The Pony Dance&#8221; from <em>New Girl in Town <\/em>on a 1962 television special about the American Musical Theatre. Verdon won her third Tony award (in a tie with co-star Thelma Ritter) for this musical adaptation of Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s <em>Anna Christie<\/em>. Here she is assisted by the show&#8217;s original choreographer, none other than Bob Fosse.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"GoboPlayer\" data=\"http:\/\/www.bluegobo.com\/player\/GoboPlayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"324\" width=\"400\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.bluegobo.com\/player\/GoboPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noScale\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config={ autoPlay: 'false', splashImageFile: 'http:\/\/www.bluegobo.com\/videos\/newgirl_ponydance_amt.jpg', scaleSplash: 'true', videoFile: 'http:\/\/www.bluegobo.com\/videos\/newgirl_ponydance_amt.flv', initialScale: 'fit' }\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwen Verdon recreates &#8220;The Pony Dance&#8221; from New Girl in Town on a 1962 television special about the American Musical Theatre. Verdon won her third Tony award (in a tie with co-star Thelma Ritter) for this musical adaptation of Eugene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s Anna Christie. Here she is assisted by the show&#8217;s original choreographer, none other than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gwen Verdon &#8211; &quot;The Pony Dance&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":[],"tags":[2084,1820,2085],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bob-fosse","tag-gwen-verdon","tag-new-girl-in-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","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=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}