{"id":27,"date":"2007-11-29T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/?p=27"},"modified":"2007-11-29T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T01:40:08","slug":"brshp_yr_shkspr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2007\/11\/brshp_yr_shkspr.html","title":{"rendered":"Brshp Yr Shkspr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"taming.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/taming.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<font face=arial size=1>No, it&#8217;s not me on the left. Or the right.<\/font><br \/>\n<strong>The Power of the Net<\/strong><br \/>\nI just received an email from an Out There reader who asked if I was the same J.W. who played opposite her in <em>The Taming of the Shrew <\/em>back at charming John Adams High School in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York. I mentioned this archetypal face-reddener, my first brush with Thalia and Melpomene, at the beginning of the last post. Indeed, Claire (Callegari) Giblin played an attractive, assertive, full-voiced Katherine to my squeaky, pimply Petruchio. She&#8217;s now a museum curator and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giblinart.com\/\">artist<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"infoglenda.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/infoglenda.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"260\" \/><br \/>\n<font face=arial size=1>Still not me. Closer, though.<\/font><br \/>\nMy final appearance on stage came but a short time later at Adams&#8217; senior variety show, for which I wrote a musical parody, <em>The Wizard of Ozone Park <\/em>(&#8220;Oh I&#8217;ve got to get to college, to get a lump of knowledge&#8230;.&#8221;) Someone must have twisted my arm to play the Good Witch in full Glinda drag, which I did to universal delight.<br \/>\nA scary photo of me in mop wig and waving a twinkling wand soon appeared on the front page of our school newspaper. Yours truly was the editor; how the devil did that picture get there?<br \/>\nI await, I suppose, the inevitable emails from those of you who saw it.<br \/>\n(Yes, the internet too has its muse, male, name begins with an &#8220;N.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not me on the left. Or the right. The Power of the Net I just received an email from an Out There reader who asked if I was the same J.W. who played opposite her in The Taming of the Shrew back at charming John Adams High School in South Ozone Park, Queens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}