{"id":5850,"date":"2018-01-10T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2018-01-10T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:23:08","slug":"king-kong-now-booking-at-the-fugard-to-18-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/king-kong-now-booking-at-the-fugard-to-18-february-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"King Kong &#8211; Now Booking At The Fugard To 18 February 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>King Kong<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The smash hit musical \u2013 now booking to 18 February 2018!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5851\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16-february-header_king-kong-212x300.jpg?resize=212%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16-february-header_king-kong.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16-february-header_king-kong.jpg?w=380&amp;ssl=1 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After an initial sold out 6 week season at the Fugard, King Kong returns by overwhelming public demand and is now booking until 18 February. Don&#8217;t miss your opportunity to catch this &#8220;knockout&#8221; and &#8220;impeccably performed&#8221; musical during its final season on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>King Kong portrays the life and times of heavyweight boxer, Ezekiel Dlamini and is set to the scintillating music of Todd Matshikiza with legendary songs such as &#8220;Back of the Moon&#8221;, &#8220;King Kong&#8221; and &#8220;Sad Times, Bad Times&#8221;. The 1959 production of South Africa&#8217;s first black musical was set in Sophiatown in Johannesburg in the late-fifties and was seen by 200 000 South Africans before transferring to London\u2019s West End. Whilst remaining true to the original production, a world-class creative team and an all South African cast have revitalised King Kong for the 21st century, giving it new life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefugard.com\/whats-on\/currently-on\/item\/king-kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webtickets.co.za\/event.aspx?itemid=1473661005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Kong The smash hit musical \u2013 now booking to 18 February 2018! After an initial sold out 6 week season at the Fugard, King Kong returns by overwhelming public demand and is now booking until 18 February. Don&#8217;t miss your opportunity to catch this &#8220;knockout&#8221; and &#8220;impeccably performed&#8221; musical during its final season on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/king-kong-now-booking-at-the-fugard-to-18-february-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">King Kong &#8211; Now Booking At The Fugard To 18 February 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-the-fugard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}