{"id":26502,"date":"2016-09-06T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26502"},"modified":"2016-09-06T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:51:52","slug":"mind-the-blog-crime-and-punishment-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/mind-the-blog-crime-and-punishment-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind The Blog: Crime and Punishment Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pleasemindtheblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/05\/crime-and-punishment-a-rock-musical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/pleasemindtheblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/05\/crime-and-punishment-a-rock-musical\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26503 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"cprm16i\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cprm16i.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Crime and Punishment: A Rock Musical is a semi-jukebox musical, in that Willcox\u2019s back catalogue is raided for some of the numbers, and some brand new songs have been provided specifically for the show. Somehow it all works surprisingly well! The jukebox musical approach can sometimes make a show feel forced, as songs are shoe-horned into a storyline, but everything (bar an inadvertently funny It\u2019s A Mystery) gels really well together. It may help if you are unfamiliar with Willcox\u2019s work, as I am, however the themes in the chosen songs fit the feeling of the scenes in which they are included. Given Raskolnikov\u2019s frustration &amp; revolutionary fervour, rock music is definitely the best way to express these feelings. It\u2019s also impressive that quite a sizeable novel can be condensed into a 100-minute show, that still has a tangible storyline running through it.<\/p>\n<p>Crime and Punishment: A Rock Musical runs at the Scoop (London Bridge City) until 25 September 2016. Entry is free \u2013 donations can be made &amp; programmes bought on the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/pleasemindtheblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/05\/crime-and-punishment-a-rock-musical\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mind The Blog<\/strong><\/a>. Read other reviews of <em>Crime and Punishment<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/cp-review\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime and Punishment: A Rock Musical is a semi-jukebox musical, in that Willcox\u2019s back catalogue is raided for some of the numbers, and some brand new songs have been provided specifically for the show. Somehow it all works surprisingly well! The jukebox musical approach can sometimes make a show feel forced, as songs are shoe-horned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,110],"tags":[1663,1600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26505,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502\/revisions\/26505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}