{"id":70,"date":"2012-11-23T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-11-23T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T20:30:56","slug":"friday-fun-the-girl-in-14g-performed-by-kristin-chenoweth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2012\/11\/23\/friday-fun-the-girl-in-14g-performed-by-kristin-chenoweth\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: The Girl in 14G (performed by Kristin Chenoweth)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first encountered Kristin Chenoweth as the idealistic, Gilbert-and-Sullivan-loving, Republican lawyer on The West Wing.\u00a0 <em>Edited to add: Oops, no I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 She was on the West Wing, but she was actually Leo McGarry&#8217;s assistant.\u00a0 <\/em>I had no idea she could sing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jBJn4BHtqqY&#038;w=420&#038;h=315]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">&#8230; and particularly not in so many different styles and with such an impressive range.\u00a0 The song is composed by Jeanine Tesori (lyrics by Dick Scanlan), a composer I had never previously heard of, probably because she mostly composes for Broadway musicals and I don&#8217;t get out much (particularly to New York, of course&#8230;).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to keep an eye out for anything of hers that turns up in Melbourne, however, as she is clearly a clever, clever composer.<\/p>\n<p>As for Kristin Chenoweth, what is there to say but wow.\u00a0 (Admittedly, part of my lack of commentary is because I&#8217;m really, really tired right now, but still&#8230;) She really is an amazingly talented woman.<\/p>\n<p>And here, as a little bonus, is Ms Chenoweth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0cFCfCx-1c\">having a bit of fun with Mozart&#8217;s Queen of the Night aria<\/a>.\u00a0 Because you know you needed a bit more Queen of the Night in your life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first encountered Kristin Chenoweth as the idealistic, Gilbert-and-Sullivan-loving, Republican lawyer on The West Wing.\u00a0 Edited to add: Oops, no I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 She was on the West Wing, but she was actually Leo McGarry&#8217;s assistant.\u00a0 I had no idea she could sing&#8230; [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jBJn4BHtqqY&#038;w=420&#038;h=315] &#8230; and particularly not in so many different styles and with such [&hellip;]<\/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":[184,278,354,413,597],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dick-scanlan","tag-girl-in-14g","tag-jeanine-tesori","tag-kristin-chenoweth","tag-queen-of-the-night"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}