{"id":829,"date":"2010-05-28T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2010\/05\/dorothy-loudon-sings-vodka.html"},"modified":"2010-06-16T02:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T06:09:42","slug":"dorothy-loudon-sings-vodka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Loudon sings &quot;Vodka&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of the 1983 Tony Awards, the Uris Theatre (where the ceremony was taking place) was renamed for George Gershwin. Throughout the evening performers sang the composer&#8217;s material, including Dorothy Loudon&#8217;s fearless, showstopping performance of &#8220;Vodka!&#8221; from the 1925 musical <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Song of the Flame<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">. <\/span>Gershwin and Herbert Stothart (who won an Oscar for his underscoring in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Wizard of Oz<\/span>) shared duties as composer; Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II cowrote the book and lyrics. The show was an operetta spectacle set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. A film adaptation was released in 1930 and is now believed to be lost.<\/p>\n<p>Loudon mines comic gold with the material, a performance that many still recall fondly from the telecast. It never fails to make me laugh (especially her outrageous ad libs). Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mC4ftyelfVQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mC4ftyelfVQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"430\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of the 1983 Tony Awards, the Uris Theatre (where the ceremony was taking place) was renamed for George Gershwin. Throughout the evening performers sang the composer&#8217;s material, including Dorothy Loudon&#8217;s fearless, showstopping performance of &#8220;Vodka!&#8221; from the 1925 musical Song of the Flame. Gershwin and Herbert Stothart (who won an Oscar for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorothy Loudon sings &quot;Vodka&quot;<\/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":[1673,2453,1766,2541],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dorothy-loudon","tag-gershwin","tag-tony-awards","tag-vodka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}