{"id":29149,"date":"2024-04-16T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=29149"},"modified":"2024-04-16T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:40:44","slug":"the-outsiders-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/04\/the-outsiders-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outsiders &#8211; The Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You guys.\u00a0 I had no idea this was even a thing.\u00a0 But The Outsiders &#8211; the book, the movie that so many of us loved in the 80&#8217;s and beyond is now a musical on Broadway and I want to go see it.<\/p>\n<p>I remember having to read the book in school and there was just something about it that drew you in.\u00a0 When the book turned into a movie that was even better.\u00a0 With an all star cast &#8211; Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>Gangs.\u00a0 Conflict.\u00a0 Trying to find your place.\u00a0 Trying to survive in a broken world that feels destined to always be against you.<\/p>\n<p>The Greasers.\u00a0 Those guys from the poor side of town nobody wants to be from.\u00a0 The Socs.\u00a0 Short for &#8220;Socials&#8221;.\u00a0 The West side &#8220;rich&#8221; kids.<\/p>\n<p>A fight breaks out.\u00a0 Someone dies.\u00a0 Ponyboy and his best friend Johnny go into hiding so they don&#8217;t get caught.\u00a0 Arrested or taken away from their make shift family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IVRTWPPvtyU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I found the movie once in a bargain bin and introduced my oldest daughter to it and she fell in love with it.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/11\/entertainment\/the-outsiders-broadway-review-warring-teens-tug-at-the-heart-in-one-of-the-seasons-best-new-musicals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Broadway.<\/a>\u00a0 In musical form.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OOFay3f8tNo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzbHPqULtdA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You guys.\u00a0 I had no idea this was even a thing.\u00a0 But The Outsiders &#8211; the book, the movie that so many of us loved in the 80&#8217;s and beyond is now a musical on Broadway and I want to go see it. I remember having to read the book in school and there was","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":29153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 19:44:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/04\/the-outsiders-the-musical\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29152,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29149\/revisions\/29152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}