{"id":214,"date":"2018-09-28T13:16:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-09-28T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T22:38:07","slug":"the-pleasure-dome-revisited-the-summer-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasure Dome revisited &#8211; The Summer of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>28 September 2018<\/p>\n<p>While I write this article I am travelling back from Europe to New Zealand, going forward in time.  Time travelling.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking from time travelling today it is exactly 1 year since The Pleasure Dome opened officially and took us back to the 80ties.<\/p>\n<p>What an experience we were given!!!!<\/p>\n<p>A huge shed was transformed to a NY metro and street.  If you looked around you could notice it was a film set of Ash vs Evil Death. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of the street the night club The Pleasure Dome.<\/p>\n<p>The Pleasure Dome, Robert Tapert&#8217;s Dream that came to life.<br \/>\nI still call this THE musical of musicals.  As he did before with the tv series Xena Warrior Princess, he set here again a new standard of musicals.<br \/>\nYou were in the night club, witnessing the life of a diva and all the things that happened in the 80ties, drugs, love, power, and being gay.<br \/>\nOn top of that you were invited to interact and dance on those top hits.<\/p>\n<p>And what a marvelous ensemble it had.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Lawless in the lead performed as never before.  A super voice with the right songs. You could feel the love, the pain, the drug addiction, the fight to get away from it,&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>My two favourite moments where Sappho against her alter ego CocoCaine and Hey, Little Girl.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of addiction, I have to admit that my wife and I were so mezmerized that we went 18 times.<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to see how the show changed and crew grew into their roles.<\/p>\n<p>To be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 September 2018 While I write this article I am travelling back from Europe to New Zealand, going forward in time. Time travelling. And speaking from time travelling today it is exactly 1 year since The Pleasure Dome opened officially and took us back to the 80ties. What an experience we were given!!!! A huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-lucy-lawless","category-the-pleasuredome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lotolux.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}