{"id":18345,"date":"2015-03-02T23:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T06:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18345"},"modified":"2015-03-02T23:27:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T06:27:56","slug":"ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/ghost.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ghost&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18346\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/Ghost_1990_movie_poster.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18346\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/Ghost_1990_movie_poster.jpg\" alt='A movie poster for \"Ghost\"' width=\"270\" height=\"400\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poster tells us to \u201cBelieve,\u201d but it\u2019s very difficult for me to believe, frankly, that \u201cGhost\u201d is 25\u00a0years old.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just back from a performance of <em>Ghost: The Musical<\/em> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hct.org\/online\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hale Centre Theatre<\/a>\u00a0in West Valley City, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I confess that I\u2019ve found some recent musicals just a bit irritating at points, since virtually every song seems to be belted out (screeched?) at maximum volume. \u00a0There\u2019s not enough musical variety for my taste, and what should be powerful emotional moments lose some of their punch because everything is performed with the same degree of intensity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes felt that way tonight, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s a fault in the score, not in the specific performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Hales\u2019s staging was ingenious, and the acting was quite\u00a0good.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, of course, <em>Ghost<\/em> is quite a good story. \u00a0It\u2019s both very affecting and, at other moments, very, very funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I did appreciate the fact that the score in this version makes extensive use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qiiyq2xrSI0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one of my favorite songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really grateful, as I\u2019ve said before, for live theater in our communities. \u00a0My wife and I enjoy it immensely, and want to support it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Just back from a performance of Ghost: The Musical at the Hale Centre Theatre\u00a0in West Valley City, Utah. \u00a0 I confess that I\u2019ve found some recent musicals just a bit irritating at points, since virtually every song seems to be belted out (screeched?) at maximum volume. \u00a0There\u2019s not enough musical variety for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Ghost&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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