{"id":761,"date":"2012-05-17T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/05\/elaine-stritch-and-her-inspirations.html"},"modified":"2012-05-17T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:33:00","slug":"elaine-stritch-and-her-inspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/05\/elaine-stritch-and-her-inspirations.html","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Stritch and Her Inspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EVERY two weeks, I speak to a performer coming to town and ask them about their influences, figures who drove them into a life in the arts or helped shape what they do. But my latest subject &#8212; Broadway&#8217;s tough dame Elaine Stritch &#8212; was having none of it.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-TJR1a2fIwz0\/T7VEhG2CzmI\/AAAAAAAABU8\/KCyqP0megaE\/s1600\/Elaine_Stritch.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-TJR1a2fIwz0\/T7VEhG2CzmI\/AAAAAAAABU8\/KCyqP0megaE\/s320\/Elaine_Stritch.jpg\" width=\"209\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/may\/15\/entertainment\/la-et-influences-20120516\">Here<\/a> is my latest Influences column, which I nearly had to rename.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She was also surprised to note that despite the success of her <i>Elaine Stritch at Liberty<\/i>\u00a0in LA in 2002, Saturday night&#8217;s Sondheim program at Disney Hall marks her first appearance there. Somebody, she said, must have it out for her. &#8220;Maybe Mickey Mouse.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVERY two weeks, I speak to a performer coming to town and ask them about their influences, figures who drove them into a life in the arts or helped shape what they do. But my latest subject &#8212; Broadway&#8217;s tough dame Elaine Stritch &#8212; was having none of it. Here is my latest Influences column, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140,30,97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-disney-hall","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"category-theater","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}