{"id":3297,"date":"2014-10-08T23:21:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T23:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2014-10-10T23:43:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T23:43:59","slug":"3297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3297","title":{"rendered":"Musical  thrills them in Yeovil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.octagon-theatre.co.uk\/whats-on\/allshows\/jekyll-hyde-yaos#booking\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.octagon-theatre.co.uk\/UserFiles\/Images\/Shows\/jekyllHyde-YAOS2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><em>The Blog\u2019s drama critic, Walter Plinge writes. . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society (YAOS) are currently staging the musical thriller \u2013 almost a melodrama \u2013 Jekyll &amp; Hyde. A talented cast of singers, actors and musicians wrings every ounce of high drama and pathos from this classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a chemically-induced split personality <em>(or the battle between good and evil \u2013Ed<\/em>) . There are some great show-stopping numbers and some amazing performances from the principals, especially Jekyll\/Hyde and Lucy Harris, his ill-fated love interest.<\/p>\n<p>Staging and musical direction are superb, as you would expect from a company with professional standards and big budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Worth seeing. Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, 7.30, until Saturday 11<sup>th<\/sup> October<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jekyll &amp; Hyde - Octagon Theatre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.octagon-theatre.co.uk\/whats-on\/allshows\/jekyll-hyde-yaos#booking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read a longer review in the <a title=\"Jekyll &amp; Hyde Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theftr.co.uk\/jekyll-and-hyde-the-musical-yeovil-amateur-operatic-society-octagon-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Times Recorder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blog\u2019s drama critic, Walter Plinge writes. . . Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society (YAOS) are currently staging the musical thriller \u2013 almost a melodrama \u2013 Jekyll &amp; Hyde. A talented cast of singers, actors and musicians wrings every ounce of high drama and pathos from this classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a chemically-induced split &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Musical  thrills them in Yeovil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[2781,2770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6glYD-3297","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}