{"id":57848,"date":"2012-06-26T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=57848"},"modified":"2012-06-26T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T13:02:08","slug":"mckellen-and-friends-at-the-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/06\/26\/57848-mckellen-and-friends-at-the-opera-house\/","title":{"rendered":"McKellen and friends at the Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.2kiwis.com\/2012\/06\/25\/ian-mckellen-at-the-opera-house\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5337\/7429891972_7502168579_m.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Ian McKellen. Photo by Brendon Doran.\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><\/a> This account of Ian McKellen&#8217;s one-man-show the other night at the Opera House in Wellington in aid of the earthquake-struck Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch features some glorious photography of the performance.<\/p>\n<p><i>We mingled with the Hobbit cast, Martin Freeman expressing his general surprise at what was happening \u201cWe had no idea about this\u201d (though with a grin on his face) and everyone then crowded in around Ian as he explained what would happen next.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Photo to the right by Brendon Doran. See bigger, better versions by following the link below.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.2kiwis.com\/2012\/06\/25\/ian-mckellen-at-the-opera-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: there&#8217;s also this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/culture\/performance\/7162961\/McKellen-weaves-his-magic-to-enthral-crowd\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> over at The Dominion Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This account of Ian McKellen&#8217;s one-man-show the other night at the Opera House in Wellington in aid of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[14,49,1260,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-mckellen","category-martin-freeman","category-events-other"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-f32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57848"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57862,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848\/revisions\/57862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}