{"id":81007,"date":"2019-02-20T01:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/20\/only-fools-and-horses-the-musical-review-vintage-gags-need-better-tunes\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T01:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:06:40","slug":"only-fools-and-horses-the-musical-review-vintage-gags-need-better-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=81007","title":{"rendered":"Only Fools and Horses \u2013 The Musical review: vintage gags need better tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonAmid the delightful comic dialogue, some of the musical numbers can feel like padding The smooth transition from dialogue to songs in musicals is the genre\u2019s toughest trick, with the talk sometimes feeling like a warm-up for the key material.Unusually, the musical adaptation of Only Fools and Horses \u2013 the revered BBC sitcom featuring deluded Peckham entrepreneur Del Boy Trotter \u2013 has the opposite problem. The comic dialogue is so delightful that it\u2019s tempting to resent its interruption by songs that sometimes seem to have been included merely to justify the show\u2019s title. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/feb\/20\/only-fools-and-horses-the-musical-review-vintage-gags-need-better-tunes\" target=\"_blank\">Only Fools and Horses \u2013 The Musical review: vintage gags need better tunes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonAmid the delightful comic dialogue, some of the musical numbers can feel like padding The smooth transition from dialogue to songs in musicals is the genre\u2019s toughest trick, with the talk sometimes feeling like a warm-up for the key material.Unusually, the musical adaptation of Only Fools and [&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-81007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81007","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=81007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}