{"id":105795,"date":"2019-08-13T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/13\/woke-up-broadway-the-difficulty-of-updating-stories-for-the-stage\/"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:48:42","slug":"woke-up-broadway-the-difficulty-of-updating-stories-for-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=105795","title":{"rendered":"Woke up Broadway: the difficulty of updating stories for the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The uptick in hauling older scripts, from Tootsie to Moulin Rouge, to the stage has left playwrights with many hurdlesHere is a question from Tootsie, the Broadway musical about an out-of-work actor who cross-dresses for success: \u201cAt a time when women are literally clutching their power back from between the legs of men, you have the audacity to take a job away from one by perpetrating one?\u201d That line sticks out for a few reasons. Literally? Is that really a power women are interested in? It\u2019s actually a pretty good question. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/aug\/13\/woke-up-broadway-the-difficulty-of-updating-stories-for-the-stage\" target=\"_blank\">Woke up Broadway: the difficulty of updating stories for the stage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The uptick in hauling older scripts, from Tootsie to Moulin Rouge, to the stage has left playwrights with many hurdlesHere is a question from Tootsie, the Broadway musical about an out-of-work actor who cross-dresses for success: \u201cAt a time when women are literally clutching their power back from between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}