{"id":2328,"date":"2004-10-06T23:13:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T06:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/10\/06\/2328.html"},"modified":"2004-10-06T23:13:45","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T06:13:45","slug":"state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/10\/06\/state-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Forgot to mention in that last entry that I also recently saw <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0038116\/\">State Fair<\/a><\/cite> (the 1945 Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein musical version).<\/p>\n<p>I wasn't impressed.  The story's kinda goofy, and the songs are mostly nothing special.  Nice to finally hear \"It Might as Well Be Spring\" in context, and \"It's a Grand Night for Singing\" is catchy, and there are a couple cute lines here and there, but overall nothing special.<\/p>\n<p>(Quick digression re catchy music: I've been having a lot of earworms lately.  In particular, I recently purchased the soundtrack to the <cite>Buffy<\/cite> musical episode, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=4426036\">Once More, With Feeling<\/a>,\" from the iTunes Music Store, and listened to it, and \"Going Through the Motions\" and \"Walk Through the Fire\" have been running through my head for days as a result.  Sigh.)<\/p>\n<p>There are still a couple of Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein musicals I haven't seen: <cite>Carousel,<\/cite> <cite>Cinderella,<\/cite> maybe one or two others. But now that I look at what else of theirs I have seen, I'm not sure I want to complete the set; the only one of the ones I've seen that I actively liked was <cite>Sound of Music.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>I am, though, kinda interested in seeing the 1936 version of Kern &amp; Hammerstein's <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028249\/\">Show Boat<\/a>,<\/cite> if for no other reason than that Paul Robeson is in it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgot to mention in that last entry that I also recently saw State Fair (the 1945 Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein musical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}