{"id":1421,"date":"2005-06-17T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T05:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2005-06-17T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T05:02:25","slug":"wacky_nuns_come_to_beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/film-2\/wacky_nuns_come_to_beijing.php","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Nuns Come to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/image\/JDM050617nun.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/image\/JDM050617nun.html','popup','width=400,height=261,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JDM050617nuns.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/images\/JDM050617nuns.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" border=\"0\" title=\"Cai Qin with dysfunctional urban youth\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Another entry for the list of things that should never have been remade: Whoopi Goldberg&#8217;s <i>Sister Act<\/i>, adapted for the stage by Taiwan&#8217;s Godot Theater Company as <i>Running Angel<\/i> \u300a\u8dd1\u8def\u6551\u5929\u4f7f\u300b, is coming to Beijing and Shanghai in September.<\/p>\n<p>Cai Qin, shown here with what one assumes are typical &#8220;urban youth,&#8221; plays Whoopi&#8217;s role.<\/p>\n<p>As in the film version, familiar pop hits by artists like Faye Wong and A-Mei are given gospel arrangements and incorporated into the action. And in a nod to recent controversy, Cai Qin personally guarantees that there are no lip-synched tracks &#8211; all singing is to be done live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posted\"><em><b>Links<\/b>:<br \/> &#8211; <\/em>Beijing Messenger<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardaily.com.cn\/view1.asp?id=155570\">article<\/a> and photo (in Chinese)<\/br \/> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/feat\/archives\/2004\/12\/10\/2003214547\">Review<\/a> of Taipei production<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another entry for the list of things that should never have been remade: Whoopi Goldberg&#8217;s Sister Act, adapted for the stage by Taiwan&#8217;s Godot Theater Company as Running Angel \u300a\u8dd1\u8def\u6551\u5929\u4f7f\u300b, is coming to Beijing and Shanghai in September. Cai Qin, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/film-2\/wacky_nuns_come_to_beijing.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}