{"id":1717,"date":"2006-02-16T19:15:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T01:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/16\/frodo-prepares-for-stage-premiere\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T19:15:53","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T01:15:53","slug":"frodo-prepares-for-stage-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/16\/1717-frodo-prepares-for-stage-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Frodo prepares for stage premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">It&#8217;s addition-by-subtraction time in Toronto as the mammoth musical theater version of &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; works on problems that caused the planned 3 1\/2-hour show to run nearly five hours in its first preview. That&#8217;s what previews are for, and playgoers who have seen early performances are reporting back favorably. &#8220;There&#8217;s an absolutely fantastic 3 1\/2 -hour show in there somewhere,&#8221; says Derrick Chua, 39, a Toronto attorney who attended the very first preview, Feb. 4, at the Princess of Wales Theatre. Chua had no illusions that he&#8217;d be seeing a finished product. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060216\/ENT05\/602160556\/1035\/RSS04\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s addition-by-subtraction time in Toronto as the mammoth musical theater version of &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; works&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-rH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}