{"id":3845,"date":"2015-07-02T13:56:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2020-04-07T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:41:07","slug":"3845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/02\/3845\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Playhouse Presents &#8216;The Fantasticks&#8217; July 10-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/07\/fantasticks-437x225.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a>Western Playhouse, the summer theatre company at Missouri Western State University, presents \u201cThe Fantasticks\u201d July 10-18 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall on the Missouri Western campus. Show times are 7:30 p.m. July 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 12. Tickets may be purchased in advance in person at the Western Institute inside Spratt Hall, by phone at 816-271-4452, or online at www.westernplayhouse.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fantasticks\u201d is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and follow him into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart, and finally find their way back to each other after realizing the truth in El Gallo&#8217;s words that \u201cwithout a hurt, the heart is hollow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fantasticks\u201d is directed by Trevor Belt, a Kansas City-based director and actor. Cast members include:<\/p>\n<p>Hucklebee \u2013 TJ Lancaster<\/p>\n<p>Bellomy \u2013 Ken Remmert<\/p>\n<p>El Gallo \u2013 Erik Angerhofer<\/p>\n<p>Luisa \u2013 Carly Hayes<\/p>\n<p>Henry \u2013 Clayton Avery<\/p>\n<p>Matt \u2013 Caleb Hazelwood<\/p>\n<p>Mortimer \u2013 Jacob Mills<\/p>\n<p>Mute \u2013 Amber Anaya<\/p>\n<p>Belt, Lancaster and Remmert are members of the Actors\u2019 Equity Association.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets cost $22.50 for adults; $9.50 for the first two children then $1 for each additional child; and $20 for seniors 65 and older. Discounts are available for groups, Missouri Western faculty and staff, and college students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fantasticks,\u201d with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Playhouse, the summer theatre company at Missouri Western State University, presents \u201cThe Fantasticks\u201d July 10-18 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall on the Missouri Western campus. Show times are 7:30 p.m. July 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 12. Tickets may be purchased in advance in person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[483,742,786],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9522,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/9522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}