{"id":4270,"date":"2012-07-15T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2012-07-15T17:02:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:02:46","slug":"emma-thompson-musical-theatre-leading-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=4270","title":{"rendered":"Emma Thompson: Musical Theatre Leading Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryann Plunkett won the 1987 Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in <em>Me and My Girl,\u00a0<\/em>but what many might not know is that the role of Sally in the Stephen Fry-Mike Ockrent revisal of the British classic was first played by Emma Thompson in the West End.<\/p>\n<p>The show was a mammoth success in London, besting\u00a0<em>Les Miserables<\/em>\u00a0for most of the awards (most particularly Robert Lindsay&#8217;s sweep of Best Actor in a Musical) and running for 8 years.<\/p>\n<p>From the Royal Variety Performance here&#8217;s Lindsay and Thompson performing the title song:<\/p>\n<p>%CODE1%<\/p>\n<p>They are joined by the company for the rousing &#8220;Lambeth Walk&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>%CODE2%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryann Plunkett won the 1987 Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Me and My Girl,\u00a0but what many might not know is that the role of Sally in the Stephen Fry-Mike Ockrent revisal of the British classic was first played by Emma Thompson in the West End. The show was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=4270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emma Thompson: Musical Theatre Leading Lady<\/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":[1669,1000,1001,1319],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emma-thompson","tag-me-and-my-girl","tag-robert-lindsay","tag-west-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","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=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}