{"id":478,"date":"2009-04-30T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/04\/quote-of-the-day-one-of-the-boys-edition.html"},"modified":"2009-04-30T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:09:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-one-of-the-boys-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: "One of the Boys" Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The invaluable Janney juggles acerbity and warmth with flair in the Lily Tomlin<\/a> role. She’s no great singer but is frequently buffered by the superior pipes of her co-stars and handles solo duties with assurance and decent pitch. Violet’s splashy “One of the Boys”<\/a> is a knowingly cheesy late-’70s-style showstopper that recalls Lauren Bacall<\/a> sashaying and barking through numbers in “Woman of the Year.”<\/a><\/p>\n

– Variety on 9 to 5<\/em>
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The comparison seem to make sense… Janney could do well in a series of musical theatre acting roles that require less in the singing department. But does anyone recall the title of Lauren Bacall’s act one showstopper in Woman of the Year, <\/em>which also served as the show’s Tony performance? That’s right. “One of the Boys.” Just thought I’d draw attention to that. Meanwhile, Janney would be a perfect choice to headline a revival of Woman of the Year.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The invaluable Janney juggles acerbity and warmth with flair in the Lily Tomlin role. She’s no great singer but is frequently buffered by the superior pipes of her co-stars and handles solo duties with assurance and decent pitch. Violet’s splashy “One of the Boys” is a knowingly cheesy late-’70s-style showstopper that recalls Lauren Bacall sashaying … Continue reading Quote of the Day: "One of the Boys" Edition<\/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":[1948,2171,1583,1691,2151],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9-to-5","tag-allison-janney","tag-lauren-bacall","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-woman-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}