{"id":846,"date":"2014-07-14T11:01:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T23:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2014-07-14T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T23:28:16","slug":"sir-ed-youre-a-legend-a-hit-in-wellywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ed You&#8217;re a Legend a Hit in Wellywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding their recent production of <em>Sir Ed You&#8217;re a Legend<\/em> written by Susan Battye with music by Trevor Thwaites, the principal of Wellington&#8217;s Kelburn Normal Primary School , <strong>Andrew McFarlane<\/strong> wrote:<\/p>\n<p>Our Year 5 &amp; 6 syndicate was the team that put the production on. It was widely received by the parents and wide school as being a great hit.<\/p>\n<p>The scripts were easy to learn and gave our teachers lots of springboards to start learning conversations about.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the music, some of the songs were great and explained the story. I do find song choice interesting for students in productions, having written a couple myself, and I wonder whether a flavor of modern song could be used to capture student attention and interest. Being a male I always find pitching for kids a challenge but maybe that is my voice.<\/p>\n<p>Was a wonderful show.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew<\/p>\n<p>The Head of Performing Arts at Kelburn Normal Primary School, <strong>Charles Bisley,<\/strong> added:<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the show- it was a success, especially for a group of boys we got motivated about drama as a result.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding their recent production of Sir Ed You&#8217;re a Legend written by Susan Battye with music by Trevor Thwaites, the principal of Wellington&#8217;s Kelburn Normal Primary School , Andrew McFarlane wrote: Our Year 5 &amp; 6 syndicate was the team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=846\">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":[],"categories":[1,3,10],"tags":[18,8,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}