{"id":918,"date":"2004-11-19T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T19:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/11\/broadway_shorties\/"},"modified":"2004-11-19T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T19:56:35","slug":"broadway_shorties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/11\/broadway_shorties.html","title":{"rendered":"BROADWAY SHORTIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Clyde Haberman asks: &#8220;Have you noticed the large number of plays in recent years, on and<br \/>\noff Broadway, whose titles consist of only one word?&#8221; And answers: <\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>To list a few, we now have &#8220;Rent,&#8221; &#8220;Bug,&#8221; &#8220;Sin,&#8221; &#8220;Doubt,&#8221; &#8220;Stomp,&#8221; &#8220;Svejk,&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Whoopi,&#8221; &#8220;Hairspray,&#8221; &#8220;Chicago,&#8221; &#8220;Brooklyn,&#8221; &#8220;Dracula,&#8221; not to mention words like &#8220;Reckless,&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Wicked,&#8221; &#8220;Trying&#8221; and &#8220;Cookin&#8217;.&#8221; Say this for &#8220;Democracy.&#8221; It is at least a long word, like<br \/>\n&#8220;Guant\u00e1namo&#8221; and &#8220;Cinderella&#8221; &#8230;<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>But something called &#8220;Our Cellphone Symphony&#8221; at the Brooks Atkinson Theater &#8212; where<br \/>\nMichael Frayn&#8217;s &#8220;Democracy&#8221; had its Broadway premiere last night &#8212; is the really fascinating<br \/>\nstuff. Go <A class=inline\nhref='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/19\/nyregion\/19nyc.html?oref=login\"'\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>read the column<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clyde Haberman asks: &#8220;Have you noticed the large number of plays in recent years, on and off Broadway, whose titles consist of only one word?&#8221; And answers: To list a few, we now have &#8220;Rent,&#8221; &#8220;Bug,&#8221; &#8220;Sin,&#8221; &#8220;Doubt,&#8221; &#8220;Stomp,&#8221; &#8220;Svejk,&#8221; &#8220;Whoopi,&#8221; &#8220;Hairspray,&#8221; &#8220;Chicago,&#8221; &#8220;Brooklyn,&#8221; &#8220;Dracula,&#8221; not to mention words like &#8220;Reckless,&#8221; &#8220;Wicked,&#8221; &#8220;Trying&#8221; and &#8220;Cookin&#8217;.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-eO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}