{"id":2827,"date":"2014-03-18T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T00:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/18\/broadway-gives-back\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:27:12","slug":"broadway-gives-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/broadway-gives-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway gives back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding the balance between vocation and passion can be a challenge. But Furman alumna Mary-Mitchell Campbell &#8217;96 has somehow found a way to balance her demanding day-job as a Broadway musical director with her passion for helping others as founder and executive director of ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty).<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/new-york-city-theater\/news\/03-2014\/broadway-musical-director-mary-mitchell-campbell-h_67781.html\">&#8220;Broadway Gives Back&#8221; profile<\/a> of Campbell on TheaterMania.com, Campbell said, &#8220;I wake up every day with a sense of purpose and meaning. Most days I really love my jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Campbell founded Furman&#8217;s Pauper Players in 1992, and today her charitable legacy lives on. The Players donate a portion of ticket sales to charitable organizations, including Campbell&#8217;s ASTEP program to bring arts to underprivileged children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding the balance between vocation and passion can be a challenge. But Furman alumna Mary-Mitchell Campbell &#8217;96 has somehow found a way to balance her demanding day-job as a Broadway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}