{"id":8623,"date":"2012-02-08T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2012-02-08T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:32:49","slug":"suddenly-there-is-music-in-the-sound-of-your-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/?p=8623","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly There is Music in the Sound of Your Name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past three weeks, the following things have all happened on the National Broadcasting Company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Daniel Radcliffe hosted <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Smash<\/em>, premiered to great fanfare (if NBC-level numbers)<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Matthew Broderick appeared in a heavily promoted ad during NBC&#8217;s highest rated program of 2012 (I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s premature to make that pronouncement now)<\/li>\n<li>The NBC Promotions department put together a Superbowl spot in which the casts of many of its shows performed a slightly modified version of &#8220;Brotherhood of Man&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you know what didn&#8217;t happen in the past three weeks?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>Parks &amp; Recreation<\/em> character Tammy Two did not appear in said promo spot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Look, I know we fans of musical theater are only a diminishingly small fraction of NBC&#8217;s diminishingly small\u00a0audience. And I know that the Radcliffe and Broderick appearances are mere coincidence that probably didn&#8217;t even register on anyone&#8217;s radar. But if you&#8217;re going to do that damn number, maybe you ask Megan Mullally\u2014one of the all-time best Rosemarys, who has been awfully good for your network for a really long time\u2014to pop in for a second.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that would require NBC&#8217;s promo department to know something about musical theater and they have enough trouble trying to figure out how television works, so I should let it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past three weeks, the following things have all happened on the National Broadcasting Company: Mr. Daniel Radcliffe hosted Saturday Night Live Smash, premiered to great fanfare (if NBC-level numbers) Mr. Matthew Broderick appeared in a heavily promoted ad during NBC&#8217;s highest rated program of 2012 (I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s premature to make that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-8623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8624,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions\/8624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}