{"id":4434,"date":"2024-07-19T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2024-07-19T00:55:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T05:55:01","slug":"4434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/2024\/4434","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"l1\">The Condo Down Under<\/p>\n<p class=\"l2\">The Old Elmwood Radio Theatre\u2014John Hirsch Mainstage<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyindent\">This Greco-Roman Winnipeg-set retelling of Dr. Faustus will delight members of its target audience, but may not be a good fit for those unimpressed with parochial humour that relies on &#8216;Transcona&#8217; as a weak punchline on multiple occasions. Those inclined to Manitoba Health hip-replacement waitlist humour will have a grand time, although the radio play format seems to have been selected as an excuse to remain on-book for an extremely minimalist musical production, rather than a celebration of the elements typically associated with the golden age of radio (e.g. Foley artistry) which are conspicuously absent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyindent\">While the live music is a welcome component, even the script admits that the songs are largely arbitrary; they do little to enhance or propel the very basic plot. The otherwise gamely receptive weekday-matin\u00e9e crowd\u2019s enthusiasm for the musical numbers was notably lacking, as the lead actor took the time to chide them for their generic response to the equally low-energy tunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Ashley Frantik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Condo Down Under The Old Elmwood Radio Theatre\u2014John Hirsch Mainstage This Greco-Roman Winnipeg-set retelling of Dr. Faustus will delight members of its target audience, but may not be a good fit for those unimpressed with parochial humour that relies on &#8216;Transcona&#8217; as a weak punchline on multiple occasions. Those inclined to Manitoba Health hip-replacement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1196],"tags":[1229],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}