{"id":1227,"date":"2021-10-31T14:01:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2022-11-12T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T15:24:46","slug":"well-be-doing-the-lambeth-walk-around-abingdon-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/31\/well-be-doing-the-lambeth-walk-around-abingdon-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll be &#8216;Doing The Lambeth Walk&#8217; around Abingdon in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Me And My Girl<\/em> was originally a roaring success in the 1930s, when it seemed the whole of the UK was mad about The Lambeth Walk and pearly kings and queens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1229\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pearly-Kings-and-Queens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1229\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pearly-Kings-and-Queens-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Pearly Kings and Queens\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pearly-Kings-and-Queens-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pearly-Kings-and-Queens.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doing the Lambeth Walk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, in the early 1980s, the show was revised by Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent, and was even more successful than the original 1930s version.\u00a0 It ran for eight years in the West End and for three years on Broadway, scooping up Olivier and Tony awards in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in October 2022, AOS will be bringing Me And My Girl back to the Amey Theatre for the first time since 2001.\u00a0 You can keep up with all the latest news on the production on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/shows\/current-show\/\">Current show page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me And My Girl was originally a roaring success in the 1930s, when it seemed the whole of the UK was mad about The Lambeth Walk and pearly kings and queens. Then, in the early 1980s, the show was revised by Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent, and was even more successful than the original 1930s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/31\/well-be-doing-the-lambeth-walk-around-abingdon-in-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;ll be &#8216;Doing The Lambeth Walk&#8217; around Abingdon in 2022<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[41,39],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-future-productions","tag-me-and-my-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonoperatic.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}