{"id":22031,"date":"2022-08-19T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22031"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:07:43","slug":"opus-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/opus-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Opus Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23ededed&amp;d=sept22_flipbook_final&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=72&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>BD Wong\u2019s lifelong dream comes true in Ogunquit<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Interview by Gwen Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ongstanding <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law &amp; Order<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> regular <\/span><strong>BD Wong<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wrote the book and lyrics\u2014and now directs\u2014the world premiere of the musical <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Holland\u2019s Opus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the <\/span><strong>Ogunquit Playhouse<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through September 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In your collaboration with composer Wayne Barker, who received a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score for the play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter and the Starcatcher<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, was there ever any thought of adapting <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Holland\u2019s Opus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a straight play with music rather than as a musical?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There wasn\u2019t for us. We were looking for a property to make a musical out of, so we went chasing this all over the place because it was the perfect vehicle. Sometimes movies get bought up by other movie companies and people don\u2019t always keep track of them, so there was a bit of an Easter egg hunt to locate it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-22032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Opus-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"Opus\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Opus-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Opus-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Opus-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Opus-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Opus-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Opus.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BD Wong\u2019s lifelong dream comes true in Ogunquit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1205],"class_list":["post-22031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-september-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22059,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22031\/revisions\/22059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}