{"id":2319,"date":"2013-06-27T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T21:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2013-06-27T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T21:51:55","slug":"charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-in-drury-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2013\/06\/27\/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-in-drury-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&#8221; on stage in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/jpcharlie2-popup-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2320\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/jpcharlie2-popup-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/jpcharlie2-popup-1.jpg 633w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/jpcharlie2-popup-1-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For a show that celebrates fantasy, \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d doesn\u2019t put much trust in its audience\u2019s imagination.\u00a0<a title=\"The show\u0019s Web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlieandthechocolatefactory.com\/\">This blindingly flashy new musical<\/a>, which opened on Tuesday night at the Theater Royal, Drury Lane, is as jammed with games and gadgets as a Toys \u201cR\u201d Us warehouse. Behemoth playthings are forced upon you in such relentless abundance that you wind up feeling like a spoiled, benumbed child on Christmas morning, drowning in a sea of presents and yearning to flee back to bed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/theater.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/27\/theater\/reviews\/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-opens-at-drury-lane.html?hpw<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t hold back, Ben Brantley.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t fully trust the review until I saw this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/charlie-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2326\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/charlie-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/charlie-articleLarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/charlie-articleLarge-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 For a show that celebrates fantasy, \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d doesn\u2019t put much trust in its audience\u2019s imagination.\u00a0This blindingly flashy new musical, which opened on Tuesday night at the Theater Royal, Drury Lane, is as jammed with games and gadgets as a Toys \u201cR\u201d Us warehouse. Behemoth playthings are forced upon you in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}