{"id":17781,"date":"2013-02-26T23:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17781"},"modified":"2013-02-27T21:14:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:14:50","slug":"downton-abbey-the-rock-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Downton Abbey<\/em>: The Rock Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17782\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Simon-Le-Bon.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17782\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-17782 \" alt=\"Simon Le Bon as Matthew.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Simon-Le-Bon.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Simon-Le-Bon.jpg 829w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Simon-Le-Bon-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simon Le Bon as Matthew.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>SPOILER ALERT:<\/strong><\/em> If you are a fan of the smash Masterpiece Theater series\u00a0<em>Downton Abbey<\/em> and have not yet seen the conclusion to Season 3, you would be wise to go no further&#8230;<em>unless<\/em>, that is, your desire to cast the rock musical being made based on <em>Downtown Abbey<\/em>, retitled <strong><em>Downtown Abbey<\/em><\/strong>. If you don&#8217;t care about having the season-ending episode spoiler or if you&#8217;re up to date on recent developments and know already, proceed to the next page, where your chance to cast this rock musical extravaganza follows!<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>Your mission is simple: Cast the musicians best fit to star in the rock musical extravaganza <em>Downtown Abbey<\/em>. Only one member has been cast to date, which coincidentally\u2014<em><strong>SPOILER ALERT:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0read no further if you really don&#8217;t want to know what you missed in last Sunday&#8217;s season finale\u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;overlaps with the beloved Matthew&#8217;s departure. That&#8217;s right, as <strong>Dan Stevens<\/strong> leaves the cast of <em>Downton Abbey<\/em>\u00a0to star as Simon Le Bon in a feature film on Duran Duran, the real <strong>Simon Le Bon<\/strong> is slated to breathe new musical life into Matthew for the rock musical extravaganza <em>Downtown Abbey<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a handful of the uptown\/downtown characters to be cast. The <strong>Top 5<\/strong> casting suggestions, as determined by our celebrity judge (next page), will be awarded musically relevant gifts! Suggestions will be closed at <strong>midnight on February 28, 2013<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/downtownabbey-blank.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17785\" alt=\"downtownabbey blank\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/downtownabbey-blank.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"1450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, we introduce our celebrity judge!<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>He Who Hates Litterbugs<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_17786\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crying_indian.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17786\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17786\" alt=\"Your celebrity judge.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crying_indian.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crying_indian.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crying_indian-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your celebrity judge, He Who Hates Litterbugs.<\/p><\/div>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\/4\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">4<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILER ALERT: If you are a fan of the smash Masterpiece Theater series\u00a0Downton Abbey and have not yet seen the conclusion to Season 3, you would be wise to go no further&#8230;unless, that is, your desire to cast the rock musical being made based on Downtown Abbey, retitled Downtown Abbey. If you don&#8217;t care about <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[125,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}