{"id":179884,"date":"2018-06-04T14:12:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/179884\/buddy-holly-story-vibrant-musical-worth-watching\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T14:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:12:46","slug":"buddy-holly-story-vibrant-musical-worth-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2018\/06\/04\/buddy-holly-story-vibrant-musical-worth-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buddy Holly Story \u2013 A vibrant musical worth watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Alan Janes, an English writer and producer, the show tells the incredible life story of Buddy Holly and how he went against the grain and followed his heart to become a pioneer of the rock n roll movement.<\/p>\n<p>Frans Swart, director of Buddy \u2013 The Buddy Holly Story, says this is a feel good musical that all people should see.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_175302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175302\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-175302 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2018\/06\/Buddy-Brendan-Peyper-520x400.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buddy\u00a0 played by Brendan Peyper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe story of Holly is one to be told and not one to be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Swart, directing live shows, especially musicals, comes with challenges.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne needs to find the right people, who can both act and sing, to play the right roles, which is not the easiest thing to do,\u201d said Swart.<\/p>\n<p>He added that when he was initially working and researching the script, there was only one Hipockets Duncan that came to mind, and that was Malcolm Gooding. \u201cI was so grateful when I phoned Malcolm and he immediately agreed to take on the role.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_175303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175303\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-175303\" src=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2018\/06\/Buddy-Brendan-Peyper-and-Hipockets-Malcolm-Gooding-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buddy (Brendan Peyper) and Hipockets (Malcolm Gooding)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/events\/event\/story-buddy-holly-stage-emperors\/\" target=\"_blank\">The story of Buddy Holly on stage at Emperors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/springsadvertiser.co.za\/190947\/21-sr-ent-buddy-sk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan shines in Lefra\u2019s production of Buddy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buddy Holly at Emperors Palace\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JYgT4oZh-jE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that people can take away from this show, and from the life of Buddy Holly, is that he (Holly) was somebody who didn\u2019t accept what people wanted him to do, but instead followed his dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter all the hard work that has been put in, it is wonderful to see the energy on stage and how prepared the actors are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Buddy \u2013 The Buddy Holly Story<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is on at Emperors Palace\u2019s Theatre of Marcellus until 10 June 2018.\u00a0 Evening shows at 20:00.\u00a0 There are also matinee shows on Saturday at 15:00 and on Sundays at 11:00 and 15:00. Due to the high demand, an extra show has been added for Sunday, starting at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets can be bought at Computicket.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='5549f46ffdbb4bd38c671846524ee82a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most vibrant and iconic shows, Buddy \u2013 The Buddy Holly Story, which has been enjoyed by millions of people around the world, is being staged at The Theatre of Marcellus, Emperors Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6776,"featured_media":179887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Mahume Daniel Seleme","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[19161,19162,19163,19164,17244,19165,19166,19167,19168,19169,19170],"class_list":["post-179884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-alan-janes","tag-buddy-the-buddy-holly-story","tag-buddy-holly","tag-emperors-palaces-theatre-of-marcellus","tag-frans-swart","tag-hipockets","tag-hipockets-duncan","tag-malcolm-gooding","tag-the-buddy-holly-story","tag-win-tickets-to-buddy-the-buddy-holly-story","tag-written-by-alan-janes"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Alan Janes","Buddy \u2013 The Buddy Holly Story","Buddy Holly","Emperors Palace\u2019s Theatre of Marcellus","Frans Swart","Hipockets","Hipockets Duncan","Malcolm Gooding","The Buddy Holly Story","Win Tickets To Buddy \u2013 The Buddy Holly Story","Written by Alan Janes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}