{"id":420847,"date":"2010-03-12T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=96295"},"modified":"2010-03-12T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:52:05","slug":"ray-charles-broadway-musical-opens-nov-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/420847","title":{"rendered":"Ray Charles Broadway Musical Opens Nov. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ray-Charles-Musical.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ray Charles Musical\" width=\"471\" height=\"510\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-96297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A musical based on the life of music legend Ray Charles will open on <a href=\"http:\/\/news-briefs.ew.com\/2010\/03\/12\/ray-charles-broadway\/\">Broadway<\/a> this fall, producers announced Thursday. The show, titled <em>Unchain My Heart<\/em>, will premiere in New York City Nov. 7, with previews beginning Oct. 8. Stuart Benjamin, producer of the 2004 biopic Ray, worked with Charles for 15 years and will produce the show.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier version of the musical called <em>Ray Charles Live<\/em> was produced at California\u2019s Pasadena Playhouse in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rN5V-6yCbpg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rN5V-6yCbpg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7sKSMXtWqzmW31ldM8J83kilUK8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7sKSMXtWqzmW31ldM8J83kilUK8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7sKSMXtWqzmW31ldM8J83kilUK8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7sKSMXtWqzmW31ldM8J83kilUK8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A musical based on the life of music legend Ray Charles will open on Broadway this fall, producers announced Thursday. The show, titled Unchain My Heart, will premiere in New York City Nov. 7, with previews beginning Oct. 8. Stuart Benjamin, producer of the 2004 biopic Ray, worked with Charles for 15 years and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}