{"id":411,"date":"2007-05-09T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/05\/09\/rings-gets-a-fix-but-is-it-enough\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T19:40:02","slug":"rings-gets-a-fix-but-is-it-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/05\/09\/411-rings-gets-a-fix-but-is-it-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Rings gets a fix, but is it enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">LONDON \u2014 Saruman, that grizzled old necromancer, is caught in a spotlight, sounding a battle cry to his army of orcs: \u201cI have trained you and equipped you! I know your hearts beat with a single purpose!\u201d The orcs scuttle purposefully as the martial score swells and Saruman brandishes his staff (very old-school, price unknown) while rising up, borne aloft on a nifty piece of stage technology (very new-school, price at least $1-million). The music fades, Saruman (also known as Brian Protheroe) thunks down to stage level, and the assistant choreographer comes out to have a word with her orcs. In an instant, their body language changes from rampaging chimpanzee to off-duty actor: shoulders slumped, legs splayed, chins on spears. The stage they&#8217;re on, at the historic Theatre Royal Drury Lane, is framed by creeping branches that reach out into the auditorium, partly obscuring a couple of the boxes. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070509.wrings09\/BNStory\/Entertainment\/home\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Saruman, that grizzled old necromancer, is caught in a spotlight, sounding a battle cry to his&#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":[239,130,240,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr-stage","category-old-main-news","category-stage","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}