{"id":6256,"date":"2021-06-24T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2021-06-24T10:40:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T15:40:54","slug":"tigers-take-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2021\/06\/24\/tigers-take-center-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers take center stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/MUTheatreMadagascarPreview_RebeccaAllenPhotography_033-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MUTheatreMadagascarPreview_RebeccaAllenPhotography_033-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of the cast and crew of Madagascar\" class=\"wp-image-6257\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The cast and crew of \u201cMadagascar\u201d at a preview performance on Tuesday, June 22. (Photo by Rebecca Allen.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bravo to the Theatre Department on yesterday\u2019s premiere of \u201cMadagascar: A Musical Adventure.\u201d Held outdoors on Traditions Plaza, it\u2019s the department\u2019s first performance with a large in-person audience in more than a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMadagascar\u201d is directed by Joy Powell, an associate professor at MU, and features 10 of our Tigers as animals who escape from Central Park Zoo and other characters. Be sure to catch one of the upcoming family-friendly performances throughout the next two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/MUTheatreMadagascarPreview_RebeccaAllenPhotography_019-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MUTheatreMadagascarPreview_RebeccaAllenPhotography_019-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Rachel Misner, Reggie Coleman, Preston Wilson and Nathan Le as characters in Madagascar\" class=\"wp-image-6258\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Left to right) Rachel Misner, Reggie Coleman, Preston Wilson and Nathan Le play their parts. (Photo by Rebecca Allen.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Theatre Department \u2014 like so many programs at Mizzou \u2014 demonstrated incredible versatility over the past year. From Zoom musicals to socially distanced shows, they found creative ways to tell the stories audiences love. I\u2019m so proud that they continue to share their immense talent with our community in a safe way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations again to the cast and crew. I look forward to even more opening nights after our full return in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bravo to the Theatre Department on yesterday\u2019s premiere of \u201cMadagascar: A Musical Adventure.\u201d Held outdoors on Traditions Plaza, it\u2019s the department\u2019s first performance with a large in-person audience in more than a year. \u201cMadagascar\u201d is directed by Joy Powell, an associate professor at MU, and features 10 of our Tigers as animals who escape from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}