{"id":245,"date":"2015-05-12T21:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2015-05-17T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:31:47","slug":"let-me-entertain-you-brilliant-final-but-no-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/let-me-entertain-you-brilliant-final-but-no-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let Me Entertain You\u2019 &#8211; Brilliant final, but no prize!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Rivertones, having been successful in reaching the final of the \u2018Let Me Entertain You\u2019 competition organised by the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil, took their place on stage on Saturday 9 May \u2013 opening the second half of the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">32 members of the chorus plus chorus director Peter Gover performed a song from the Lion King &#8211; \u2018Can You Feel The Love Tonight\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The capacity sell-out audience of over 600 broke into spontaneous applause and cheering during a final key change and a choreographed flash of lights towards the end of the song<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>. . . we had once again heard some lovely comments from 3 professional entertainments people &#8211; Emma Britton from BBC Somerset, Adam Burgan, manager of the Octagon Theatre and Antonia Burt from the Western Gazette and previously with Sony Records &#8211; Emma telling us she liked CYFTLT better than Hallelujah which got us into this final, Adam once again saying how we all sang the song with great feeling and emotion and Antonia saying she nearly broke out into tears when we all started to move forward towards the finale of the song, and in her book we had scored 11 out of 10. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A thoroughly enjoyable experience and congratulations to Twisted Vinyl, this year&#8217;s winners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LMEY-finals-pic-WG.jpg\" alt=\"LMEY -finals pic (WG)\" width=\"555\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LMEY-finals-pic-WG.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LMEY-finals-pic-WG-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivertones, having been successful in reaching the final of the \u2018Let Me Entertain You\u2019 competition organised by the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil, took their place on stage on Saturday 9 May \u2013 opening the second half of the show. 32 members of the chorus plus chorus director Peter Gover performed a song from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therivertones.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}