{"id":29,"date":"2007-11-09T12:57:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T10:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/entertainment\/now-showing-at-theatre-on-the-bay-2\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T11:05:12","slug":"now-showing-at-theatre-on-the-bay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/entertainment\/now-showing-at-theatre-on-the-bay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Showing at Theatre on The Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">14 November to 10 December 2007 &#8211; &#8221; Its A Dad Thing&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We bravely ventured into the uncharted territory of hot flushes,memory loss and weight gain with the hilarious smash hit <em>Menopause The Musical<\/em> and now we forge our way into unfamiliar turf with this season\u2019s comic masterstroke, <em>It&#8217;s a Dad Thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A roller coast ride of laughter, tears and songs (mainly laughter), which is chaotic, fun and truthful \u2013 pretty much like parenthood itself, except that it runs for two hours and has an interval! You\u2019ll laugh out loud as the myth of the perfect parent is put soundly to rest when a group of battle-weary fathers come together and compare notes on child rearing from Dad\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-natal classes &#8211; when even the men are on their backs practicing pelvic exercises &#8211; give way to births (six hours of Enya can be quite terrifying); attempts to cross squeaky floorboards with the fear of producing siren screams stalking every step, and introducing The Child to sharp knives, beer and pizza (come on \u2013 you know someone has to!). You\u2019re about to meet that most dreamed-of hero \u2013 the Superdad! \u2026 and that\u2019s just the first half.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half you get to meet Zombie Dad, who manages to loose his kid in Toys \u2018R Us; Sneaky Dad who uses the same nappy twice (what!?) and Sad Dad, saying farewell to the last symbol of his youth \u2013 his powder blue V8 Chevy!<\/p>\n<p>So ladies, come and be amazed and astounded, and guys \u2013 it\u2019s ok \u2013 after this, you\u2019ll know you\u2019re not alone. And to all the Learner and Licensed SuperParents out there \u2013 drive, stagger or even crawl to Theatre on the Bay to see IT\u2019S A DAD THING \u2013 it\u2019ll get you laughing, cheering, back up on your feet and even giving yourself a well deserved pat on the back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 November to 10 December 2007 &#8211; &#8221; Its A Dad Thing&#8221; We bravely ventured into the uncharted territory of hot flushes,memory loss and weight gain with the hilarious smash hit Menopause The Musical and now we forge our way into unfamiliar turf with this season\u2019s comic masterstroke, It&#8217;s a Dad Thing. A roller coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.campsbayinfo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}