{"id":9493,"date":"2019-04-22T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2020-01-28T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:48:49","slug":"sesquicentennial-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2019\/04\/22\/sesquicentennial-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Participate in the sesquicentennial musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/150-Social-Image-2.png\" alt=\"150 art mark\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/150-Social-Image-2.png 500w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/150-Social-Image-2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the many faculty-led projects in development to celebrate Augsburg\u2019s 150th anniversary is a new work of musical theater about the university community, past and present, to be performed in spring 2020. Members of the community are invited to take part in every step of the process, from creating material to performing in the production.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Sonja Thompson<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, assistant professor of music and university organist, is leading the project. <\/span><strong>Malick Ceesay \u201917<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, company manager at the Children\u2019s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, has signed on as stage director, and <\/span><strong>Aaron Gabriel \u201999<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is composing music and lyrics for the production. The Augsburg Music-Theater Club is also contributing to stage direction, musical direction, and choreography, as well as performing in the cast. Leah Cooper of Wonderlust Productions is writing the play based on the stories of real Auggies that gathered in story circles.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>[Web extra]:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audition dates have not been set, but alumni and friends of Augsburg interested in performing or otherwise being a part of the production can learn more at<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/sesquicentennialmusical\/\">engage.augsburg.edu\/sesquicentennialmusical<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many faculty-led projects in development to celebrate Augsburg\u2019s 150th anniversary is a new work of musical theater about the university community, past and present, to be performed in spring 2020. Members of the community are invited to take part in every step of the process, from creating material to performing in the production. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":9502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auggies-connect","tag-spring-summer-2019"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}