{"id":1133,"date":"2010-01-08T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2011-05-07T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T00:54:32","slug":"glitter-and-be-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/glitter-and-be-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Glitter and Be Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you&#8217;re not a fan of opera, operetta or classical singing, I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy this hysterical <em>(and beautiful)<\/em> rendition of <em class=\"b\">Glitter and Be Gay<\/em> from the operetta &#8220;Candide&#8221; by Leonard Bernstein.  It&#8217;s a very difficult piece to sing, and is performed by the adorable <em class=\"b\">Kristin Chenoweth<\/em>, who originated the role of Glinda the Good witch in Wicked.  She is an amazing coloratura soprano with a gift for comedy.  This has to be one of my all time favorite musical theatre\/operetta performances.  Watch it while you can <em>(before it gets removed from YouTube again).<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVsLMxam21I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you&#8217;re not a fan of opera, operetta or classical singing, I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy this hysterical (and beautiful) rendition of Glitter and Be Gay from the operetta &#8220;Candide&#8221; by Leonard Bernstein. It&#8217;s a very difficult piece to sing, and is performed by the adorable Kristin Chenoweth, who originated the role of Glinda the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/glitter-and-be-gay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glitter and Be Gay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,43,115,116,114],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-entertainment","tag-gay","tag-music","tag-opera","tag-perform","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}