{"id":17946,"date":"2013-03-03T20:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T01:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17946"},"modified":"2013-03-03T20:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T01:28:58","slug":"meet-the-cast-of-downtown-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/meet-the-cast-of-downtown-abbey\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Cast of <em>Downtown Abbey<\/em>!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downton-abbey-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17950\" alt=\"downton-abbey-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downton-abbey-logo.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downton-abbey-logo.png 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downton-abbey-logo-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Sunday night, America. Still no new episodes of <em>Downton Abbey<\/em>. You&#8217;re missing it, aren&#8217;t you? I know I am. But I&#8217;ve got some good news that may help satisfy your jonesin&#8217; for the upstairs-downstairs antics of the 21st century&#8217;s early 20th century English estate.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall our <a title=\"Downton Abbey: The Rock Musical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\" target=\"_blank\">recent call to cast the rock musical version of the BBC\/PBS smash hit <em>Downton Abbey<\/em>, the edgier <em>Downtown Abbey<\/em><\/a>. If you need a refresher, click <a title=\"ibid.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>. That&#8217;s why we provide such links, you know.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, Townspeople were neither sparing nor unimaginative with their entries. Our celebrity judge, <a title=\"Our celebrity judge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical\/4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>He Who Hates Litterbugs<\/strong><\/a>, had almost as tough a time choosing winners as we did finding pictures showing what must be considered the &#8220;bad&#8221; profiles of a number of our cast members. Our cast follows the jump, but first, congratulations to the following winners of the<strong> Top 5<\/strong> casting entries, chosen for not only their physical resemblance to the <em>Downton Abbey<\/em> cast members but their overall mien:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">mockcarr (Carson)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">hrrundivbakshi (Kemal Pamuk)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">machinery (Bates)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">ladymisskirroyale (Thomas),<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">(TIE) chergeuvarra (Lady Crawley) &amp; cdm (Lord Crawley)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>See these inspired casting choices and many more&#8230;<em>after the jump<\/em>! Thanks to all who played along, <a title=\"2K!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downton-abbey-the-rock-musical#comment-81858\" target=\"_blank\">even <strong>2000 Man<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downtownabbey-cast.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17948\" alt=\"downtownabbey-cast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downtownabbey-cast.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downtownabbey-cast.png 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downtownabbey-cast-50x300.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know you want Kemal and Tramp Maids #1 and #2&#8230;<em>after the jump<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downtownabbey-cast-cont.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17949\" alt=\"downtownabbey-cast-cont\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downtownabbey-cast-cont.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downtownabbey-cast-cont.png 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/downtownabbey-cast-cont-160x300.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/meet-the-cast-of-downtown-abbey\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/meet-the-cast-of-downtown-abbey\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/meet-the-cast-of-downtown-abbey\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday night, America. Still no new episodes of Downton Abbey. You&#8217;re missing it, aren&#8217;t you? I know I am. But I&#8217;ve got some good news that may help satisfy your jonesin&#8217; for the upstairs-downstairs antics of the 21st century&#8217;s early 20th century English estate. You may recall our recent call to cast the rock <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/meet-the-cast-of-downtown-abbey\/' 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\/17946"}],"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=17946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}