{"id":17630,"date":"2019-07-31T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T09:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=17630"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T09:52:33","slug":"paperboy-exhibition-at-lyric-celebrates-cultural-icons-of-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/07\/paperboy-exhibition-at-lyric-celebrates-cultural-icons-of-the-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperboy exhibition at Lyric celebrates cultural icons of the 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>British Youth Music Theatre (BYMT), the team behind the smash-hit musical adaption of Tony Macaulay\u2019s international best seller Paperboy, has teamed up with National Museums NI on a very special pop up exhibition at the Lyric. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/press-12-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17631\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nexhibition, which will run alongside the BYMT production of Paperboy (1-4\nAugust), features artefacts from 1970s donated by the Belfast public. Items\ninclude; <strong>The Hood figurine <\/strong>the main villain in <em>Thunderbirds<\/em> who\nappeared in many guises while trying to acquire the technology used by\nInternational Rescue and <strong>Flashy Flickers<\/strong> <strong>picture gun<\/strong>\nwhich enabled children to project films of their favourite television and\ncartoon characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set in 1975, Paperboy tells\nthe true story of young Tony Macaulay growing up in West Belfast. The book was\nadapted for stage by stand-up comedian Andrew Doyle\nand music for the production was composed by platinum-selling Belfast artist Duke\nSpecial. It depicts fondly remembered moments\nsuch as the Lord Mayor\u2019s Parade, The Bay City Rollers gig at The Ulster Hall in\n1975 as well as references to popular culture of that time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Checking out some of the\nitems in the Paperboy exhibition at Lyric were, Tony Macaulay and Karen Logan\nfrom &nbsp;National Museums NI.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Youth Music Theatre (BYMT), the team behind the smash-hit musical adaption of Tony Macaulay\u2019s international best seller Paperboy, has teamed up with National Museums NI on a very special pop up exhibition at the Lyric. The exhibition, which will run alongside the BYMT production of Paperboy (1-4 August), features artefacts from 1970s donated by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/07\/paperboy-exhibition-at-lyric-celebrates-cultural-icons-of-the-1970s\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17632,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions\/17632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}