{"id":38786,"date":"2015-10-29T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=38786"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:28:34","slug":"wright-state-presents-fun-slick-cynical-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/29\/wright-state-presents-fun-slick-cynical-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State presents fun, slick, cynical \u2018Chicago\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Murder, feuds, manipulation, and all that jazz energizes the sexy, scintillating and cynical world of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse\u2019s classic 1975 musical \u201cChicago\u201d which begins performances Thursday, Oct. 29 at Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>Bolstered in popularity by its Tony Award\u00adwinning 1996 Broadway revival (and its distinction as the longest-\u00adrunning American musical in Broadway history) and the winner of six 2002 Academy Awards including Best Picture, \u201cChicago\u201d spins a surrealistic web of rivalry and fame during the Roaring Twenties. Merry murderesses Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, inmates of the Cook County Jail, vigorously vie for the attention and affection of the fickle, overzealous media but not without crucial assistance from super slick lawyer Billy Flynn and earthy prison matron Mama Morton.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/entertainment\/arts-theater\/wright-state-presents-fun-slick-cynical-chicago\/nn7Mm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Murder, feuds, manipulation, and all that jazz energizes the sexy, scintillating and cynical world of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse\u2019s classic 1975 musical \u201cChicago\u201d which begins performances Thursday, Oct. 29 at Wright State University. Bolstered in popularity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/29\/wright-state-presents-fun-slick-cynical-chicago\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":38793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,747,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786","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=38786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130432,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786\/revisions\/130432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}