{"id":22347,"date":"2017-09-13T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.221.30.245\/?p=22347"},"modified":"2017-09-18T16:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:50:55","slug":"stephen-endelman-gained-rights-for-upstairs-downstairs-from-co-creator-john-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/?p=22347","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Endelman Gained Rights for &#8216;Upstairs Downstairs&#8217; from Co-Creator John Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic 1970s ITV drama &#8216;<em>Upstairs Downstairs&#8217;<\/em>, a progenitor to &#8216;<em>Downton Abbey&#8217;<\/em>, is being revived as a stage musical. Composer Stephen Endelman nabbed the rights from co-creator John Whitney after he traveled to the\u00a0Whitneys&#8217; home in Dorset to personally obtain the blessing from a man he calls &#8220;one of the bastions of British entertainment.&#8221;\u00a0Endelman has assembled a creative team of fellow Los Angeles-based British expats: Producer Adam Matalon is writing the book, and singer-songwriter Matt Goss is penning lyrics to go with Endelman&#8217;s music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full articles visit the link below:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/classic-tv-drama-upstairs-downstairs-revived-as-stage-musical-1038080<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/upstairs-downstairs-steps-up-to-west-end-stage-362sqzrhq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic 1970s ITV drama &#8216;Upstairs Downstairs&#8217;, a progenitor to &#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217;, is being revived as a stage musical. Composer Stephen Endelman nabbed the rights from co-creator John Whitney after he traveled to the\u00a0Whitneys&#8217; home in Dorset to personally obtain the blessing from a man he calls &#8220;one of the bastions of British entertainment.&#8221;\u00a0Endelman has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/?p=22347\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stephen Endelman Gained Rights for &#8216;Upstairs Downstairs&#8217; from Co-Creator John Whitney<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22357,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions\/22357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}