{"id":11481,"date":"2011-08-14T21:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T20:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11481"},"modified":"2011-08-14T21:07:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T20:07:40","slug":"is-the-cabaret-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/14\/is-the-cabaret-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the cabaret over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cabaret_(musical)\" target=\"_blank\">Cabaret<\/a> at the extraordinary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westacretheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Westacre Theatre <\/a>last night.<\/p>\n<p>The production was stunning. I spent many years in London, and for much of them saw a great deal, for example, of all that was produced at the Royal Court. But there was as much, in very many ways, as notable about this production in a tiny studio theatre in Norfolk as those major London productions.<\/p>\n<p>And the musical could not have been better chosen for the moment if Westacre had been able to choose it with a few days notice.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have not seen Cabaret for a while I recommend doing so. It's about 80 years since the events that it tells of. It almost 40 years since the film was made - when maybe it felt safe to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Its relevance has, perhaps, never been greater.<\/p>\n<p>The audience, stunned to shocked awe in appreciation of an amazing cast, seemed to think so.<\/p>\n<p>It provides excuse for anther piece of music. but as it is refusing to embed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rkRIbUT6u7Q&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" target=\"_blank\">a link will do<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Cabaret at the extraordinary Westacre Theatre last night. The production was stunning. I spent many years in London, and for much of them<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/14\/is-the-cabaret-over\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,106,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}