{"id":7018,"date":"2017-10-23T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/06\/theatre-presents-musical-ifthen-by-kitt-and-yorkey-maegan-azar-directs\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:59:17","slug":"theatre-presents-musical-ifthen-by-kitt-and-yorkey-maegan-azar-directs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/theatre-presents-musical-ifthen-by-kitt-and-yorkey-maegan-azar-directs\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre presents musical &#8220;If\/Then&#8221; by Kitt and Yorkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Theatre will present the musical <em>If\/Then <\/em>Nov. 8-11 and Nov. 15-18 at 8 p.m., with matinee performances Nov. 12 and Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. All performances take place in The Playhouse on the Furman University campus.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Furman Theatre professor Maegan Azar, <em>If\/Then<\/em> is open to the public. Tickets are $20 for adults, $17 for seniors and $12 for students.<\/p>\n<p>From the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning team that produced <em>Next to Normal<\/em>, Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) craft an original, romantic story in which \u201cChoice and fate collide for a woman at the crossroads of her life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Says the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>, \u201c<em>If\/Then<\/em> has some lovely insights into how the phantom pains of missing a life we never had can haunt and shape our choices\u2014and that we can always find something new to live for, if we just remember to look up every once in a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cast includes:<\/p>\n<p>Anne Morgan as Elizabeth<br \/>\nElizabeth Budinoff (understudy: Emily Lanter) as Kate<br \/>\nElli Caterisano (understudy: Clare Beth McConnell) as Anne<br \/>\nDayanari Umana as Elena<br \/>\nAndy Teye as Lucas<br \/>\nPatrick Fretwell (understudy: Joshua Taylor) as Josh<br \/>\nAlan Smith as David<br \/>\nClark Spillane as Stephen<\/p>\n<p>Azar is Associate Professor of Acting and Directing at Furman University, past president of the South Carolina Theatre Association, secretary of the Southeastern Theatre Conference Executive Committee, and an Artistic Associate at The Warehouse Theatre. She holds a bachelor\u2019s from East Tennessee State University and a Master\u2019s of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>For ticket information and reservations, call the Theatre Box Office at 864-294-2125. Tickets may be ordered online at this <a href=\"https:\/\/app.arts-people.com\/index.php?ticketing=futa\">link<\/a>. The Box Office opens Wednesday, Oct. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Theatre will present the musical If\/Then Nov. 8-11 and Nov. 15-18 at 8 p.m., with matinee performances Nov. 12 and Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. All performances take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-theatre-arts","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}