{"id":593,"date":"2009-07-30T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/07\/thoroughly-modern-angie.html"},"modified":"2009-07-30T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:12:00","slug":"thoroughly-modern-angie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Thoroughly Modern Angie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Oscars in 1968, Angela Lansbury, who was in town with <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Mame, <\/span>was asked to perform the Oscar-nominated title song from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thoroughly Modern Millie<\/span>. It was customary at the time that the song&#8217;s originator didn&#8217;t sing on the telecast, which is why Julie Andrews didn&#8217;t do the honors. Many consider this performance to be an unofficial audition for the film version of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Mame.<\/span> Now, if someone could post Mitzi Gaynor&#8217;s showstopping rendition of &#8220;Georgy Girl&#8221; from the year before (apparently the standing ovation led to a commercial break)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Hq2G5nC9mkk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Hq2G5nC9mkk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Oscars in 1968, Angela Lansbury, who was in town with Mame, was asked to perform the Oscar-nominated title song from Thoroughly Modern Millie. It was customary at the time that the song&#8217;s originator didn&#8217;t sing on the telecast, which is why Julie Andrews didn&#8217;t do the honors. Many consider this performance to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoroughly Modern Angie<\/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":[1598,1656,2305],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-angela-lansbury","tag-oscars","tag-thoroughly-modern-millie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}