{"id":40239,"date":"2016-03-17T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T14:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=40239"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:24:55","slug":"reasons-to-go-to-wright-states-version-of-theater-classic-music-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/03\/17\/reasons-to-go-to-wright-states-version-of-theater-classic-music-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to go to Wright State\u2019s version of theater classic \u2018Music Man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wright State University presents Meredith Willson\u2019s classic 1957 Tony Award-winning musical \u201cThe Music Man\u201d beginning Thursday, March 17, in the Festival Playhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Willson\u2019s incredibly tuneful slice of Americana is set in River City, Iowa, circa 1912. The touching tale concerns charming con artist Harold Hill, a traveling salesman exuberantly boosting morale with the promise to create a boy\u2019s band while simultaneously wooing prickly librarian Marian Paroo. As Hill changes Marian\u2019s outlook on life, River City undergoes an engaging evolution of its own from bickering school board members to a gaggle of gossipy busybodies.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/events\/reasons-to-go-to-wright-states-version-of-theater-\/nqjLB\/\">Dayton Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University presents Meredith Willson\u2019s classic 1957 Tony Award-winning musical \u201cThe Music Man\u201d beginning Thursday, March 17, in the Festival Playhouse. Willson\u2019s incredibly tuneful slice of Americana is set in River City, Iowa, circa 1912. The touching tale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/03\/17\/reasons-to-go-to-wright-states-version-of-theater-classic-music-man\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":40277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,747,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40239","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\/40239","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=40239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40240,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions\/40240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}