{"id":857,"date":"2004-06-07T23:03:06","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/rnc-cant-handle-the-producers\/"},"modified":"2004-06-07T23:03:06","modified_gmt":"2004-06-08T04:03:06","slug":"rnc-cant-handle-the-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/rnc-cant-handle-the-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"rnc can&#8217;t handle the producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"soucequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&#038;storyID=5365282\">Broadway&#8217;s Best Shows Too Risque for Republicans<\/a> [reuters]<\/div>\n<p>&#8230; Republican organizers,  selling themselves as the family-values party, decided to buy tickets to tame shows like &#8220;42nd Street&#8221; and Disney productions like &#8220;Aida&#8221; and &#8220;The Lion King,&#8221; avoiding more offbeat fare.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Tony winners such as the naughty puppet musical &#8220;Avenue Q&#8221; and best play &#8220;I Am My Own Wife,&#8221; about a German transvestite, other hits including Mel Brooks&#8217; &#8220;The Producers,&#8221; were vetoed by those arranging Broadway outings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Republicans were so desperate to escape Roger DeBris, the cross-dressing buffoon concocted by Mel Brooks, that they have gone and picked two shows set in France,&#8221; wrote New York Times columnist Frank Rich, referring to evergreen musicals &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221; and &#8220;Phantom of the Opera.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ah well&#8230; so the republicans are gonna miss some of the good stuff while they&#8217;re in new york&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadway&#8217;s Best Shows Too Risque for Republicans [reuters] &#8230; Republican organizers, selling themselves as the family-values party, decided to buy tickets to tame shows like &#8220;42nd Street&#8221; and Disney productions like &#8220;Aida&#8221; and &#8220;The Lion King,&#8221; avoiding more offbeat fare. Besides Tony winners such as the naughty puppet musical &#8220;Avenue Q&#8221; and best play &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}