{"id":700,"date":"2009-11-20T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/11\/well-the-soundtrack-album-cover-gets-a-two.html"},"modified":"2009-11-20T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T21:37:00","slug":"well-the-soundtrack-album-cover-gets-a-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Well, the soundtrack album cover gets a two."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/SwcN1F9oheI\/AAAAAAAAAUY\/VgSgylr4KXw\/s1600\/Nine+soundtrack.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QwJtFy8OUME\/SwcN1F9oheI\/AAAAAAAAAUY\/VgSgylr4KXw\/s400\/Nine+soundtrack.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406305083466483170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>While the purist in me has some obvious quibbles with the chopping away at the score, I am still intrigued and very much looking forward to the film adaptation of Maury Yeston&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nine. <\/span>The movie musical, directed by Rob Marshall, is slated for release on Christmas Day. The soundtrack will be coming out a couple weeks earlier on December 15. From video clips and stills, the film &#8211; for whatever it&#8217;s worth &#8211; is bound to have some striking visuals, so I have to express my disappointment at the album cover, which I assume will also be representative of the film&#8217;s poster art. The image looks cheap, like something you would expect on the &#8220;You sing&#8221; karaoke edition of the score. It doesn&#8217;t live up to the expectations of class and beauty that are stock in trade with <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nine <\/span>on both stage and screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the purist in me has some obvious quibbles with the chopping away at the score, I am still intrigued and very much looking forward to the film adaptation of Maury Yeston&#8217;s Nine. The movie musical, directed by Rob Marshall, is slated for release on Christmas Day. The soundtrack will be coming out a couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well, the soundtrack album cover gets a two.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1984],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-nine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}