{"id":4882,"date":"1951-09-01T00:09:22","date_gmt":"1951-09-01T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2014-10-10T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:24:10","slug":"richards-partners-on-stage-the-glow-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1951\/09\/01\/richards-partners-on-stage-the-glow-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard&#8217;s Partners on Stage: The Glow Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was during lunchtime at Blaine-Sumner Elementary School, in 1953, that Richard Pryor first performed for a larger audience \u2014 as part of a double bill that included The Glow Girls, a singing group that included his close friend Margaret Ruth. The sixth-grade Richard performed his Jerry Lewis-influenced brand of slapstick; the Glow Girls performed the songs of the era\u2014including the popular Mills Brothers&#8217; song &#8220;The Glow Worm,&#8221; from which they derived their name.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance to the school gym served as an amphitheater, its steps as risers for an audience of twenty-five or more kids. An alcove around the corner formed the wings of the stage, where the acts could make their dramatic entrances. The Pryor-Glow Girls double bill had a theatrical run of around fifteen impromptu performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was during lunchtime at Blaine-Sumner Elementary School, in 1953, that Richard Pryor first performed for a larger audience \u2014 as part of a double bill that included The Glow Girls, a singing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,369,119,412,54,26],"tags":[211,356,355],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-born-star","category-education-of-richard-pryor","category-1953-1962","category-2-floating-from-school-to-school","category-richard-pryor","category-schooled","tag-blaine-sumner-school","tag-margaret-ruth-kelch","tag-the-glow-girls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}