{"id":55012,"date":"2012-04-13T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=55012"},"modified":"2012-04-13T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:48:31","slug":"sir-ian-mckellen-keeps-himself-busy-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/13\/55012-sir-ian-mckellen-keeps-himself-busy-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen keeps himself busy in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/13\/55012-sir-ian-mckellen-keeps-himself-busy-in-new-zealand\/ian-mckellen-christchurch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55013\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-55013 no-lazyload\" title=\"ian mckellen christchurch\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ian-mckellen-christchurch-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Ever ready to support a worthy cause, Sir Ian McKellen isn&#8217;t putting his feet up during his time off from Middle-earth.\u00a0 As busy as he surely is on <em>The Hobbit<\/em> movie set, the actor will be taking time during the weekends in May and June to perform a one man show around New Zealand, to raise money for the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch.\u00a0 Following last year&#8217;s terrible earthquakes, the theatre has been closed because of &#8216;structural issues&#8217;.\u00a0 Back in 2010 McKellen appeared in <em>Waiting for Godot<\/em> at the theatre, and he&#8217;s keen to see it restored and reopened.\u00a0 Full details and dates for his touring one man show can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/national-news\/hobbit-star-performing-raise-money-christchurch-4817326\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/the-press\/news\/christchurch-earthquake-2011\/6691722\/McKellen-wizardry-for-Christchurch-theatre\">here<\/a>; in the included video newsreel in the first link, McKellen hints that the one man show may include singing!\u00a0 Perhaps he&#8217;s been inspired by Viggo Mortensen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5SFu66CaBGY&amp;context=C49427f4ADvjVQa1PpcFMkv0-pDA5sb6NdqPjefW6FuG3tsWWSu8E=\">recent recitals<\/a>??<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the various TORn spies who contacted us about Sir Ian&#8217;s shows; if you are lucky enough to get to one of these performances, we&#8217;d love to hear about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever ready to support a worthy cause, Sir Ian McKellen isn&#8217;t putting his feet up during his time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":55013,"comment_status":"open","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":[14,1300,4,49,240,148,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen","category-stage","category-hobbit","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ian-mckellen-christchurch.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-eji","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55012","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55017,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55012\/revisions\/55017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}