{"id":51,"date":"2002-10-17T01:40:36","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T01:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-07-07T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:19:20","slug":"no-business-like-show-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2002\/no-business-like-show-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamma Mia!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
With Grammie visiting for the weekend, Andrea and I headed over to Charlotte on Saturday to see Mamma Mia, a musical jammed with two dozen Abba tunes. Rockin campy wild hilarious cheesy rowdy fun! We’re still not quite sure how they pulled it off, but they overlapped a great comedy with nonstop<\/a> disco<\/a> jams<\/a> (yeah<\/a> baby<\/a>) and actually made it all come together. We were all jumping out of our seats by the end. To cap it off, we went to “the best vegetarian restaurant in Charlotte”, as voted by readers of Creative Loafing (flashback!), called Kelly’s Kitchen. Yum…\n<\/td>\n\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Grammie visiting for the weekend, Andrea and I headed over to Charlotte on Saturday to see Mamma Mia, a musical jammed with two dozen Abba tunes. Rockin campy wild hilarious cheesy rowdy fun! We’re still not quite sure how they pulled it off, but they overlapped a great comedy with nonstop disco jams (yeah … Continue reading Mamma Mia!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2004\/live-and-learn-its-automatic\/","url_meta":{"origin":51,"position":0},"title":"Homeschooling, Olympics style","author":"m","date":"August 15, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"We're getting into the Olympics, it's the home-schooling subject of the month. 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