{"id":1355,"date":"2015-03-23T00:47:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:03:52","slug":"leading-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/leading-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Ladies (March 17-26, 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Ludwig.<\/p>\n<p>In this uproarious comedy two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing \u201cScenes from Shakespeare\u201d on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that a local old lady plans to leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, Jack and Leo resolve to pass themselves off as her relatives and get the cash. Complications ensue when they find out that the relatives aren\u2019t nephews but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady\u2019s vivacious niece, Meg, who\u2019s engaged to the local minister, who is anything but vivacious! Meg knows that there\u2019s a wide world out there, but it\u2019s not until she meets \u201cMaxine and Stephanie\u201d that she finally gets a taste of it. \u201cLeading Ladies is consistently funny \u2212 indeed, increasingly hilarious as it progresses.\u201d ~ Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Ludwig. In this uproarious comedy two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing \u201cScenes from Shakespeare\u201d on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that a local old lady plans to leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, Jack \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/leading-ladies\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,61],"tags":[4,99],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-16","category-all","tag-comedy","tag-ken-ludwig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}