{"id":34715,"date":"2014-12-22T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T14:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=34715"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:38:28","slug":"dare-to-defy-prepares-compelling-last-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/12\/22\/dare-to-defy-prepares-compelling-last-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dare to Defy prepares compelling \u2018Last Five Years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b<strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wright State University senior musical theater majors Ian Benjamin and Kelsey Pohl star in Dare to Defy Productions\u2019 staging of Jason Robert Brown\u2019s humorous, romantic and heartbreaking 2002 musical \u201cThe Last Five Years,\u201d scheduled for Friday, Jan. 2, and Saturday, Jan. 3, in the Schuster Center\u2019s Mathile Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe theme of career vs. relationships speaks loudest to me,\u201d said Benjamin, an outstanding Th\u00e9nardier last season in WSU\u2019s \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s something I struggle with in my own life \u2013 balancing shows, school and work, then still trying to set aside time for my friends and loved ones. Until that balance is achieved, there is always one that ends up winning out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydaytondailynews.com\/news\/entertainment\/arts-theater\/dare-to-defy-prepares-compelling-last-five-years\/njTrM\/#82e61151.3642521.735588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton Daily News<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bExcerpt Wright State University senior musical theater majors Ian Benjamin and Kelsey Pohl star in Dare to Defy Productions\u2019 staging of Jason Robert Brown\u2019s humorous, romantic and heartbreaking 2002 musical \u201cThe Last Five Years,\u201d scheduled for Friday, Jan. 2, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/12\/22\/dare-to-defy-prepares-compelling-last-five-years\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":34716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130513,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions\/130513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}