{"id":8063,"date":"2005-06-03T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/06\/03\/the-rain-in-spain.html"},"modified":"2005-06-03T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T17:37:42","slug":"the_rain_in_spa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/03\/the_rain_in_spa.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rain in Spain …"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went out to see a production of My Fair Lady<\/em><\/a> at the La Mirada Theatre<\/a> last night. Very well done production — good acting, good singing, good sets and costumes. <\/p>\n

MFL <\/em>isn’t my favorite show — Higgins is an awful person (though they managed to finesse the ending to make it a bit less of an undeserved “triumph” for him), and I find the Eliza’s dad scenes to be emblematic of why I don’t care for most musicals (“Too much dialog and story the last several minutes — let’s have a Big Musical Number now!”). But it was a nice evening nonetheless, it’s always fun to have dinner at a North Woods Inn<\/a>, and gave me an excuse to sing other R&H show tunes to Margie on the drive home.<\/p>\n

Makes me want to see Pygmalion <\/em>again, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went out to see a production of My Fair Lady at the La Mirada Theatre last night. 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