{"id":16877,"date":"2012-10-22T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=16877"},"modified":"2012-10-22T08:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:41:56","slug":"wsu-prepares-showstopping-funny-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/10\/22\/wsu-prepares-showstopping-funny-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU prepares showstopping \u2018Funny Girl\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>Jule Styne, Bob Merrill and Isobel Lennart\u2019s 1964 musical comedy \u201cFunny Girl,\u201d chronicling the rise of vaudeville comedienne-turned-Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice and her ill-fated romance with gambler Nick Arnstein, will be presented at Wright State University beginning Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Set before and after World War I in New York City, \u201cFunny Girl\u201d notably features a slew of terrific songs by Styne (\u201cGypsy\u201d) and Merrill (\u201cCarnival\u201d) that rank among the best in the musical theater canon. \u201cPeople\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Rain on My Parade\u201d are the most popular, enduring showstoppers (both have been rediscovered by a new generation thanks to Fox\u2019s hit comedy \u201cGlee\u201d) but \u201cI\u2019m the Greatest Star,\u201d \u201cWho Are You Now?\u201d and \u201cThe Music That Makes Me Dance\u201d in particular are equally dynamic.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/m.daytondailynews.com\/dayton\/db_95407\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=vEmBiVPi&amp;detailindex=0&amp;pn=0&amp;ps=3\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) Jule Styne, Bob Merrill and Isobel Lennart\u2019s 1964 musical comedy \u201cFunny Girl,\u201d chronicling the rise of vaudeville comedienne-turned-Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice and her ill-fated romance with gambler Nick Arnstein, will be presented at Wright State University beginning Thursday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/10\/22\/wsu-prepares-showstopping-funny-girl\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16878,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}