{"id":8818,"date":"2025-05-27T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:36:09","slug":"observer-footloose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/05\/27\/observer-footloose\/","title":{"rendered":"OBSERVER: Footloose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Melbourne season for Footloose: the Musical now playing at the Athenaeum Theatre with some performances sold out, is extending across July and August, with national tour dates set to be announced soon.<br>Based on the film starring Kevin Bacon, the musical tells a powerful story of youth, freedom and the unifying power of music and dance.<br>Newcomer Jarrod Moore plays the lead role of Ren McCormack, the spirited outsider who inspires the town of Bomont to find their rhythm again.<br>Jordan Twigg plays Ariel Moore, the preacher&#8217;s daughter battling between rebellion and responsibility, and Stephen Mahy takes on the role of Reverend Shaw Moore, with Sophie Weiss as Vi Moore, his wise and understanding wife.<br>They are joined by a talented cast including Maverick Newman (William Hewitt), Justin Gray (Chuck Cranston), Maddison Coleman (Rusty), Andrea Zappacosta (Wendy Jo) and Angela Brischetto (Urleen).<br>Emma Russell (Ethel), Shannon Foley (Uncle Wes), Elena Atasovski, Nina Dell, Jack Reason, Chad Rosete, Gabriel Tiller, Dimitri Raptis and swings &#8211; DaisyBoo Allen and Jake Keen &#8211; complete the cast.<br>Performance Season: Now playing, extended to July-August<br>Venue: Athenaeum Theatre, Collins St., Melbourne<br>Bookings: footlosethemusical.com<br><strong>Cheryl Threadgold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pictured: Jarrod Moore is Ren McCormack in Footloose.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melbourne season for Footloose: the Musical now playing at the Athenaeum Theatre with some performances sold out, is extending across July and August, with national tour dates set to be announced soon.Based on the film starring Kevin Bacon, the musical tells a powerful story of youth, freedom and the unifying power of music and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8826,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/8826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}