{"id":6757,"date":"2024-02-23T19:15:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T23:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2024-02-25T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T21:15:22","slug":"musical-follies-opens-to-raves-at-liverpools-astor-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/02\/23\/musical-follies-opens-to-raves-at-liverpools-astor-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Follies opens to raves at Liverpool&#8217;s Astor Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6759\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6759\" class=\"wp-image-6759 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopening-1024x602.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopening-1024x602.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopening-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopening-768x452.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopening-1536x903.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopening-2048x1205.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of Follies on opening night Thursday at the Astor Theatre in Liverpool. (Rick Conrad photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The curtain went up on a big, bold, breathtaking musical at the Astor Theatre in Liverpool on Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s Follies began its eight-show run at the historic theatre. It features more than two dozen cast members from Queens and Lunenburg counties ranging in age from 14 to 77.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6760\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6760\" class=\"wp-image-6760 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopen2-1024x786.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopen2-1024x786.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopen2-300x230.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopen2-768x589.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopen2-1536x1179.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/folliesopen2-2048x1571.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many elaborate costumes in the musical Follies, playing until March 3 at the Astor Theatre in Liverpool. (Rick Conrad photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A co-production of the Winds of Change and the Astor Theatre, it&#8217;s the first big musical mounted at the Astor since 2018. It runs until March 3. Tickets are available in person at the Astor Theatre box office, by calling 902-354-5250 or through <a href=\"https:\/\/tproatlantic.ticketpro.ca\/en\/pages\/ASTOR_Follies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticketpro Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QCCR was at opening night and got reaction from some members of the audience after the show. Listen below.<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6757-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/newfolliesopeningnewsupdatefeb2324-2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/newfolliesopeningnewsupdatefeb2324-2.mp3\">https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/newfolliesopeningnewsupdatefeb2324-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curtain went up on a big, bold, breathtaking musical at the Astor Theatre in Liverpool on Thursday night. Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s Follies began its eight-show run at the historic theatre. It features more than two dozen cast members from Queens and Lunenburg counties ranging in age from 14 to 77.\u00a0 A co-production of the Winds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1160,1670,38,1783,1781,1782,601,1669,275,39,1676,1675,49,1674,1161],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-arts","tag-ashley-rose-goodwin","tag-astor-theatre","tag-brian-mourre","tag-cate-bird","tag-cathie-mourre","tag-entertainment","tag-follies","tag-jean-robinson-dexter","tag-liverpool","tag-musical","tag-performing-arts","tag-queens-county","tag-stephen-sondheim","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}