{"id":36608,"date":"2019-11-05T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=36608"},"modified":"2019-11-19T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:08:57","slug":"mirren-and-mckellen-this-time-for-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/11\/mirren-and-mckellen-this-time-for-laughs.html","title":{"rendered":"Mirren and McKellen . . . This Time for Laughs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I see from the morning paper that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/04\/movies\/helen-mirren-ian-mckellen.html?searchResultPosition=1\">Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen were on Broadway as surprise guests<\/a> the other night in an improv hip-hop comedy and that Mirren is quoted as saying, &#8220;We are so outside of our comfort zones.\u201d  Rodney Dangerfield couldn\u2019t have said it better. The only other time they were on a Broadway stage together was in Strindberg&#8217;s &#8220;Dance of Death&#8221;\u2014let me take you back to the year 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"36633\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/dance-of-death-590-enh-copy\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dance-of-death-590-enh-copy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"590,1043\" 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=\"Ian McKellen &amp;#038; Helen Mirren on Broadway in Strindberg&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;Dance of Death&amp;#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dance-of-death-590-enh-copy-170x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dance-of-death-590-enh-copy-579x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dance-of-death-590-enh-copy-579x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dance-of-death-590-enh-copy-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dance-of-death-590-enh-copy-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dance-of-death-590-enh-copy.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><figcaption><em>MSNBC.com (Oct. 22, 2000)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see from the morning paper that Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen were on Broadway as surprise guests in an improv hip-hop comedy and that Mirren is quoted as saying, &#8220;We are so outside of our comfort zones.\u201d Rodney Dangerfield couldn&#8217;t have said it better. The only other time they were on a Broadway stage together was in a Strindberg&#8217;s &#8220;Dance of Death&#8221;\u2014let me take you back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36606,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-theater","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dance-of-death-590.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36759,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608\/revisions\/36759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}