{"id":17280,"date":"2018-04-24T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=17280"},"modified":"2018-04-24T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T12:46:40","slug":"musical-theatre-organization-to-present-broadway-goes-global-a-musical-cabaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/musical-theatre-organization-to-present-broadway-goes-global-a-musical-cabaret\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Theatre Organization to Present Broadway Goes Global, A Musical Cabaret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding on the theme, <em>Broadway Goes Global<\/em>, for this year\u2019s Musical Theatre Organization (MTO) cabaret on April 28 was easy for student club president Angelica Ramirez, a junior from Effort, Pa., who is majoring in musical theatre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMTO is a group of more than 30 students from many different heritages,\u201d Ramirez said, \u201cand it\u2019s important to our members to sing about our roots and celebrate that diversity. We chose songs from musicals that draw their inspiration from a wide range of countries and cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Selections for the cabaret include pieces from <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>, reflecting the French Revolution of 1848; <em>In the Heights<\/em>, Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s contemporary musical set in the Latino New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights; <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>, the classic Rogers and Hammerstein musical that traces the rise of Nazism in Austria; and <em>Memphis<\/em>, the 2010 Tony-award-winning musical set in the African American rock and roll underground of Memphis in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal Week started the month of April at ESU with the theme of \u2018mosaic,\u2019 highlighting how many different people and cultures can create a beautiful pattern,\u201d Ramirez noted. \u201c<em>Broadway Goes Global<\/em> continues this theme through its musical numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s cabaret will be presented in the Dale Snow Theatre of ESU\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg. \u201cThe intimate space of this theatre frees performers from using microphones,\u201d Ramirez explained, \u201cand allows us to connect to the audience in a very direct way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Performances of <em>Broadway Goes Global <\/em>are at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 28.\u00a0 The cabaret is open to the public at no cost, but reservations are strongly suggested since seating is limited.\u00a0 Tickets can be reserved online at <a href=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/theatre\/\">esu.edu\/theatretickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the production, email <a href=\"mailto:esuarts@esu.edu\">esuarts@esu.edu<\/a>, or call 570-422-3483, x.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding on the theme, <em>Broadway Goes Global<\/em>, for this year\u2019s Musical Theatre Organization (MTO) cabaret on April 28 was easy for student club president Angelica Ramirez, a junior from Effort, Pa., who is majoring in musical theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":17287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider","category-theater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17288,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17280\/revisions\/17288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}