{"id":48550,"date":"2017-11-13T21:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T21:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=48550"},"modified":"2021-09-17T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T19:08:44","slug":"auggies-city-waitress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2017\/11\/13\/auggies-city-waitress\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggies in the City: Waitress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Augsburg University Alumni team are serving up a slice of fun! Come and join us at Tony nominated musical &#8220;Waitress&#8221; on Wednesday, November 22 at Orpheum Theater.\u00a0Featuring music and lyrics by 6 time Grammy nominee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabmusic.com\/main\/\">Sara Bareilles<\/a>, the show is guaranteed to be a great time&#8211; and at $34 per ticket, this deal is as sweet as pie!<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 6 p.m. we will be hosting a pre-theater reception at the Brave New Workshop with plenty of pie, soft drinks and a cash bar. At this reception we will be hosting a talk by Theater professor, Darcey Engen &#8217;88, on the significance of &#8220;Waitress&#8221; serving up Broadway&#8217;s first all-female creative team.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is an event you wont want to miss&#8211; described by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/04\/waitress-broadway-musical\">Vanity Fair<\/a> as &#8220;a black-and-white cookie where the comic and tragic edges touch but don\u2019t mix&#8221; where &#8220;you&#8217;re laughing one minute&#8230; [and] you\u2019re engaged with the difficult things these characters are going through the next&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tickets for this event are unfortunately sold-out but if you&#8217;re interested please call Becky Waggoner on 612-330-1085 to be put on the wait list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Augsburg University Alumni team are serving up a slice of fun! Come and join us at Tony nominated musical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32,234,712,591],"class_list":["post-48550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-events","tag-alumni-spotlight","tag-augsburg-women-engaged-awe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51095,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48550\/revisions\/51095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}