{"id":868,"date":"2013-08-14T20:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/?page_id=868"},"modified":"2014-06-09T18:58:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T18:58:24","slug":"one-monkey-dont-stop-no-show-sep-26-30-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/productions\/past\/one-monkey-dont-stop-no-show-sep-26-30-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"One Monkey Don&#8217;t Stop No Show &#8211; Sep 26-30, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/files\/2013\/08\/onemonkey-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-872\" style=\"border: 2px solid black\" alt=\"onemonkey-poster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/files\/2013\/08\/onemonkey-poster.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/files\/2013\/08\/onemonkey-poster.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/files\/2013\/08\/onemonkey-poster-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Director <strong>Mark G. Henderson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The action takes place in suburban Philadelphia, where the Reverend Avery Harrison, a Baptist preacher, clings tenaciously to his position in the local black elite. His upwardly mobile philosophy is avidly shared by his wife, Myra (whose hilarious malapropisms, however, continually betray her ghetto origins), and by his son, Felix, a strictly brought up private school product who has suddenly discovered the joys of sex, thanks to a surreptitiously studied manual and the cooperation of a local charmer known as \u201cLi\u2019l Bits\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another jarring note is struck when the Reverend\u2019s countrified niece Beverly, the only daughter of his lately demised brother, arrives from the rural South with the news that she has been left in the custody of Caleb Johnson, a jive-talking, fast-living, macho type who was the partner of Beverly\u2019s father in a disreputable local nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarious complications ensue as the Reverend and his wife find their passions rekindled; Felix and \u201cLi\u2019l Bits\u201d nervously face the prospect that she may be in a \u201cfamily way\u201d; and Beverly (who is a lot sharper than her country background might suggest) plots her conquest of the increasingly helpless Caleb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evening is total entertainment for the audience. You\u2019ll laugh continually at ideas, dialogue and situations\u201d ~ Town and Country<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026a wildly funny and entertaining play that literally had the opening night audience howling\u201d ~ Time-Off<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026a multifaceted gem any good black theatre could display with dazzling effect\u201d ~ Newark Star-Ledger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Mark G. Henderson The action takes place in suburban Philadelphia, where the Reverend Avery Harrison, a Baptist preacher, clings tenaciously to his position in the local black elite. His upwardly mobile philosophy is avidly shared by his wife, Myra (whose hilarious malapropisms, however, continually betray her ghetto origins), and by his son, Felix, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":356,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868\/revisions\/1042"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/speechcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}