{"id":778,"date":"2021-10-04T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2021-12-05T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:05:09","slug":"the-resistible-rise-of-arturo-ui-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/04\/the-resistible-rise-of-arturo-ui-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui   Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another from 1969. This was one of the last shows at the Saville Theatre in the top part of Shaftesbury Avenue before it became a cinema ( now the Odeon Covent Garden ). The building still retains many of its beautiful original architectural features. Leonard Rossiter was a brilliant stage actor although better known for his film and TV roles ( Rigsby and Reginald Perrin spring to mind ). Although there was quite a large cast for this production it was very much centred around one of Rossiter&#8217;s wackier over the top performances. The ads in the programme give the impression that theatre ( in London anyway ) had become a form of entertainment for the relatively well-off. The show had come from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citz.co.uk\/\">Glasgow Citizens Theatre<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk\/\">Nottingham Playhouse<\/a> in both of which venues I imagine the ticket prices were much more reasonable. Click on the image to download the programme.<a href=\"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Arturo.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width: 500px; \" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"on\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Arturo<br\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another from 1969. This was one of the last shows at the Saville Theatre in the top part of Shaftesbury Avenue before it became a cinema ( now the Odeon Covent Garden ). The building still retains many of its beautiful original architectural features. Leonard Rossiter was a brilliant stage \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/04\/the-resistible-rise-of-arturo-ui-programme\/\"> Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WLDF-cy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}