{"id":3138,"date":"2023-01-20T22:51:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/?page_id=3138"},"modified":"2023-01-22T06:55:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T06:55:03","slug":"cinderella-december-1977","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/?page_id=3138","title":{"rendered":"Cinderella: December 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile eplus-wrapper\" style=\"grid-template-columns:31% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"683\" data-attachment-id=\"3139\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/?attachment_id=3139\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"828,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3139 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5.jpeg 828w, https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5-300x247.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5-768x634.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5-500x412.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/D70CB342-04BC-447C-BE34-7B7D1CA543A5-800x660.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-small-font-size eplus-wrapper\"><blockquote><p><em>I joined TADS almost by accident . Dorothy Abbey was TADS\u2019 musical director and also accompanied my wife and me for singing, which was my main concern. TADS wanted a song for &#8211; something &#8211; which I did. Dorothy asked me to be in the pantomime, Cinderella\u2019. I think this was 1977.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide has-small-font-size eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-5bc24e\"><blockquote><p><em>The Roses Theatre then was Council run (after a fearful, disastrous period with an over-arty independent management). TADS and Manor Players were allowed to do the pantomime on alternate years. It seemed to me the two societies were competing to show who could produce the most appallingly amateurish show. The cast, set-builders and everyone enjoyed it mightily, the audiences rather less. One matine\u00e9 was booked by the\u00a0Dowty Social Club for their kids. Most of the parents got their offspring in and escaped for a few hours. The kids ran riot; it was quite scary.<\/em><\/p><cite>Geoff Guy<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined TADS almost by accident . Dorothy Abbey was TADS\u2019 musical director and also accompanied my wife and me for singing, which was my main concern. TADS wanted a song for &#8211; something &#8211; which I did. Dorothy asked me to be in the pantomime, Cinderella\u2019. I think this was 1977. The Roses Theatre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"header-footer-only","meta":{"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3138\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}