{"id":644,"date":"2009-09-30T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/09\/rebecca-luker-ill-tell-the-man-in-the-street.html"},"modified":"2009-09-30T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T01:23:00","slug":"rebecca-luker-ill-tell-the-man-in-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Luker: &quot;I&#8217;ll Tell the Man in the Street&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first encountered Rebecca Luker in the 2000 revival of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Music Man <\/span>where she played Marian the Librarian opposite Craig Bierko&#8217;s Harold Hill. I thought she was merely capable until &#8216;My White Knight&#8217; when she bowled my friends and I over, and stopped the show in one of the biggest ovations of many that evening. In 2002 she made an appearance with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for a centennial celebration of Richard Rodgers. The concert showcased Rodgers&#8217; collaborations with Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart, and was aired in two parts on PBS. Here is Luker singing my favorite rendition of &#8220;I&#8217;ll Tell the Man on the Street&#8221; from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I Married an Angel <\/span>(lyric by Hart).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KOqUN37VOQ4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KOqUN37VOQ4&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>I first encountered Rebecca Luker in the 2000 revival of The Music Man where she played Marian the Librarian opposite Craig Bierko&#8217;s Harold Hill. I thought she was merely capable until &#8216;My White Knight&#8217; when she bowled my friends and I over, and stopped the show in one of the biggest ovations of many that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rebecca Luker: &quot;I&#8217;ll Tell the Man in the Street&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":[2359,2360,2062,2141],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-i-married-an-angel","tag-ill-tell-the-man-in-the-street","tag-rebecca-luker","tag-rodgers-and-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","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=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}