{"id":69534,"date":"2019-06-10T15:45:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=69534"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:40:21","slug":"wright-state-theatre-alumnus-shares-in-tony-award-for-best-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/06\/10\/wright-state-theatre-alumnus-shares-in-tony-award-for-best-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State theatre alumnus shares in Tony Award for Best Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_69542\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/06\/10\/wright-state-theatre-alumnus-shares-in-tony-award-for-best-musical\/tony-awards-best-musical-2019-hadestown\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69542\" class=\"size-large wp-image-69542\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/06\/Tony-Awards-best-musical-2019-Hadestown-508x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast and crew of \u201cHadestown\u201d celebrate the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the highlights of the annual Tony Awards, which spotlight the best of Broadway, is the award for Best Musical. \u201cHadestown\u201d was named the winner, and when the cast and crew flocked to the Radio City Music Hall stage to accept the statue, a Wright State University theatre alumnus was among them.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Monda, who received a B.F.A. in musical theatre from Wright State in 2012, is a co-producer of \u201cHadestown,\u201d which won eight Tony Awards June 9 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have huge pride in this young man,\u201d said Joe Deer, chair of Wright State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/theatre-dance-and-motion-pictures\">Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures<\/a>. \u201cJoey has been an incredible supporter of this department and our students, faculty and graduates.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69350\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/06\/07\/wright-state-theatre-alumni-working-on-tony-award-nominated-broadway-shows\/joey-monda\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69350\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/06\/Joey-Monda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey Monda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHadestown\u201d intertwines two mythic tales \u2014 young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and King Hades and his wife, Persephone \u2014 as it takes the audience on a journey to the underworld and back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a banner year for Wright State and the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, with an Oscar to alumna Hannah Beachler for &#8216;Black Panther&#8217; and now a Tony Award,\u201d Deer added. \u201cWe have a lot to be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Antoinette Perry \u201cTony\u201d Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement and are one of the most coveted entertainment awards. The 2019 Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Monda, who received a B.F.A. in musical theatre from Wright State, is a co-producer of \u201cHadestown,\u201d which won eight Tony Awards June 9 in New York City. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/06\/10\/wright-state-theatre-alumnus-shares-in-tony-award-for-best-musical\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":69542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,733,4859,725,747,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69534","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69638,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69534\/revisions\/69638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}