{"id":4579,"date":"2009-01-05T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T13:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2009-01-05T13:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T13:10:37","slug":"oh-liza-john-lahr-is-too-sharp-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Liza\u2026 John Lahr is too sharp for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/minelli-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <i>Just read John Lahr&#8217;s  review of Liza Minelli&#8217;s new show &#8220;MORE ABOUT ME&#8221; in the New Yorker. I felt bad for Liza because the review is almost too penetrating. But it is a joy for the reading public. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Liza Minnelli<\/p>\n<p>Under the cunning direction of Ron Lewis, and backed by a first-rate big band, Minnelli puts on a performance that is less about craft than about crowd control. She can sure whip up her fans. The day I saw the show, after each of the nineteen songs on the playlist, people in the orchestra seats jumped to their feet to cheer the diminutive dynamo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read John Lahr&#8217;s review of Liza Minelli&#8217;s new show &#8220;MORE ABOUT ME&#8221; in the New Yorker. I felt bad for Liza because the review <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4579\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/minelli.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"117\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}