{"id":231,"date":"2013-01-04T14:58:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=231"},"modified":"2013-01-04T14:58:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T03:58:27","slug":"friday-fun-too-darn-hot-cole-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/01\/04\/friday-fun-too-darn-hot-cole-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Too Darn Hot (Cole Porter)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone in Melbourne knows exactly why I’m posting this clip today.\u00a0 And it’s not because Ann Miller is gorgeous and brilliant, though that is certainly the case too…<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4CYjE9Gv3A4&w=420&h=315]This is Ann Miller as Lois Lane (the Bianca character) in Kiss Me Kate<\/em>, the music theatre version of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew<\/em>.\u00a0 I have to admit, much like Shrew<\/em> itself, Kiss Me Kate <\/em>leaves me longing to shake the author \/ composer, but Ann Miller is always wonderful.\u00a0 She is also invariably typecast as the fun-loving and decidedly sexy brunette friend in every single musical I’ve seen her in.\u00a0 And she is a truly incredible dancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here she is as Claire, the anthopologist with a close, personal appreciation for pre-historic man<\/a> in On The Town<\/em>.\u00a0 Possibly the silliest dance routine I’ve seen in a while, not least because it involves dinosaur bones.<\/p>\n

I’m off to find a shopping centre with air-conditioning.\u00a0 See you when it cools down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone in Melbourne knows exactly why I’m posting this clip today.\u00a0 And it’s not because Ann Miller is gorgeous and brilliant, though that is certainly the case too… [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4CYjE9Gv3A4&w=420&h=315]This is Ann Miller as Lois Lane (the Bianca character) in Kiss Me Kate, the music theatre version of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.\u00a0 I have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,147,410,507,547,587,732],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ann-miller","tag-cole-porter","tag-kiss-me-kate","tag-music-theatre","tag-on-the-town","tag-prehistoric-man","tag-too-darn-hot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}