{"id":195529,"date":"2015-12-07T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=195529"},"modified":"2015-12-06T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T21:42:11","slug":"the-first-noel-graces-the-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=195529","title":{"rendered":"The First Noel Graces the Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-195532\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-300x300.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Classical Theatre of in collaboration with The Apollo Theater presents:<\/p>\n<p>The First Noel: A World Premiere Musical<br \/>\nBook, Music, and Lyrics by<br \/>\nLelund Durond Thompson and<br \/>\nJason Michael Webb<br \/>\nDirected by Steve H. Broadnax III<br \/>\nChoreographed by Brian Harlan Brooks<br \/>\nfeaturing New Music and Classic Carols re-imagined through pop, jazz, and gospel<br \/>\nAbout The First Noel<\/p>\n<p>After losing her mother around Christmas, Noel decides to return to Harlem and sell her childhood home. When she steps back inside the brownstone, the spirits of her family that passed before her begin to speak, making her decision to sell even more difficult than she anticipated. The First Noel is a memory musical that flashes us back to Harlem in 1985 and follows the story of a Noel as a child and her desire for Christmas in a house where holiday joy has been unwelcome for years. Her parents struggle to recover from the death of their first child until an unexpected visitor turns things upside-down and brings three generations of the family together just in time for Christmas. The First Noel delivers the Christmas spirit to audiences with the sound of today blended with the holiday nostalgia of yesterday, creating Harlem\u2019s answer to the perennial Holiday classic.<br \/>\nPreview Performances<br \/>\nFriday, December 11, 2015 at 7 pm<br \/>\nSaturday December 12, 2015 at 7 pm<\/p>\n<p>Opening Night<br \/>\nSunday, December 13, 2015 at 7 pm<\/p>\n<p>Performances<br \/>\nDecember 15th \u2013 31st, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Classical Theatre of in collaboration with The Apollo Theater presents: The First Noel: A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":195532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12756786],"tags":[124711513,1161013,124717978,124715701,124717979,124718181,124717396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195534,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195529\/revisions\/195534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}