{"id":172,"date":"2005-10-19T08:04:43","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2005-10-19T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T15:05:07","slug":"ken-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Ken Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At noon today I will be renewing my acquaintance with Ken Page, a wonderful actor who won a Theatre World Award for his role as Nicely-Nicely Johnson in an all-black revival of <em>Guys and Dolls<\/em> &#8212; and that was his Broadway debut. <\/p>\n<p>Ken&#8217;s credits include his role in the original cast of <em>Ain&#8217;t Misbehavin<\/em> (garnering a Drama Desk award), and the role of &#8220;Old Deuteronomy&#8221; in both New York and London productions of <em>Cats<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read that he auditioned for <em>Ain&#8217;t Misbehavin<\/em> because a friend of his told him that he looked a lot like Fats Waller; today I&#8217;ll find out if that&#8217;s true. But mostly, we&#8217;ll be talking about Luther Henderson, and how Luther, with choreographer Arthur Faria and the five cast members, envisioned that show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At noon today I will be renewing my acquaintance with Ken Page, a wonderful actor who won a Theatre World Award for his role as Nicely-Nicely Johnson in an all-black revival of Guys and Dolls &#8212; and that was his Broadway debut. Ken&#8217;s credits include his role in the original cast of Ain&#8217;t Misbehavin (garnering &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ken Page&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}