{"id":576,"date":"2010-09-09T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/?p=576"},"modified":"2010-09-29T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:27:06","slug":"%e2%80%98sugar-bean-sisters%e2%80%99-draws-inspiration-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/%e2%80%98sugar-bean-sisters%e2%80%99-draws-inspiration-from-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sugar Bean Sisters\u2019 Draws Inspiration From Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story behind Nathan Sanders\u2019 comedy, \u201cThe Sugar Bean Sisters,\u201d is a funny, and highly unusual one. According to the playwright, he was inspired during an incident that involved his cousin losing her wig while on a ride at Walt Disney World\u2019s Space Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>After that hilarious yet frightening experience, the wheels inside Sanders\u2019 mind began to turn, eventually leading him to the opening of \u201cThe Sugar Bean Sisters\u201d here in Winter Park, Florida\u2019s Breakthrough Theatre on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>43-year old Sanders says that that one funny incident has now become the seed of the play. \u201cThe Sugar Bean Sisters\u201d is a story set in the Florida town of Sugar Bean, a swamp area not far from Disney World where the Nettle sisters try to escape spinsterhood. The comedy involves a snake charmer, a handsome Mormon bishop, and a spaceship with aliens&#8211;the last bit you read correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, \u201cThe Sugar Bean Sisters\u201d is far from being your usual comedy, and even Sanders himself admits that it\u2019s pretty \u2018out there\u2019 next to the other plays he\\&#8217;s seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may however, the \u2018weirdness\u2019 factor seems to have paid off, with past audiences thinking of Sugar Bean as uproariously funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story behind Nathan Sanders\u2019 comedy, \u201cThe Sugar Bean Sisters,\u201d is a funny, and highly unusual one. According to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}