{"id":1011,"date":"2014-03-18T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2014-03-22T01:47:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T06:47:55","slug":"mozart-was-well-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Mozart Was Well Received"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Amadeus-Banner-FB-New.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1012 aligncenter\" alt=\"Amadeus Banner FB New\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Amadeus-Banner-FB-New-300x111.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Amadeus-Banner-FB-New-300x111.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Amadeus-Banner-FB-New.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two things:<\/p>\n<p>1. As a rule, I do not read theater reviews until a show has closed.<\/p>\n<p>2. I am exceptionally vain.<\/p>\n<p>After being assured a couple times that good things were being said about\u00a0<em>Amadeus,<\/em> I broke down like my old &#8217;89 Mustang and checked out a couple of reviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJared McDaris is intoxicating as a show-stealing Mozart: brash, crude and shamelessly egotistical, but also charming, funny and passionate. Even more impressive, McDaris captures the emotional depth of a character who rightly tells us that while \u2018my tongue is stupid, my heart isn\u2019t.\u2019 \u201d \u2013 Mike Fischer, JS Online (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/arts\/mcdaris-mozart-hits-right-notes-in-worlds-stages-amadeus-b99223569z1-250525781.html\" target=\"_blank\">McDaris\u2019s Mozart Hits Right Notes In World\u2019s Stage\u2019s Amadeus<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Gretchen Mahkorn] and McDaris have good chemistry, and the scenes they share \u2014 some infectiously joyous and others heartbreaking \u2014 are consistently convincing.\u201d \u2013 Mike Fischer again, JS Online (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/arts\/mcdaris-mozart-hits-right-notes-in-worlds-stages-amadeus-b99223569z1-250525781.html\" target=\"_blank\">McDaris\u2019s Mozart Hits Right Notes In World\u2019s Stage\u2019s Amadeus<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcDaris does a really good job of bringing a very human and very passionate artist to the stage.\u201d \u2013 Russ Bickerstaff, Express Milwaukee (<a href=\"http:\/\/expressmilwaukee.com\/blog-10086-a-close-up-for-amadeus-and-salieri.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Close-Up For Amadeus and Salieri<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>So that was pretty cool. Mozart is surprisingly exhausting, despite the fact that he has maybe one-fifth of the lines that Salieri has (maybe less), and as much as I like to pretend I&#8217;m above public accolades, at the end of the day I&#8217;m as susceptible to praise as anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Keep It Together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things: 1. As a rule, I do not read theater reviews until a show has closed. 2. I am exceptionally vain. After being assured a couple times that good things were being said about\u00a0Amadeus, I broke down like my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/?p=1011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9u111-gj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jaredmcdaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}