{"id":956,"date":"2013-01-22T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/22\/big-band-swing-dance-revue-in-the-mood-coming-to-mcalister\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:15:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:15:27","slug":"big-band-swing-dance-revue-in-the-mood-coming-to-mcalister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/big-band-swing-dance-revue-in-the-mood-coming-to-mcalister\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In the Mood,&#8221; coming to McAlister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/In-The-Mood.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5051 lazyload\" title=\"In-The-Mood\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/In-The-Mood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 224px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 224\/224;\" \/><\/a>The big band, swing dance musical revue known as \u201cIn the Mood\u201d will be performed Thursday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Mood\u201d is presented by Artbeat, Inc., a not-for-profit arts presenter. Tickets are $29 &#8211; $49 plus service charges and are available at Timmons Arena or Ticketmaster. Group ticket prices are also available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Mood\u201d celebrates America\u2019s Greatest Generation through the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskine Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and other idols of the 1940s. The revue features authentic music arrangements, costumes and choreography which combine to recreate the big band era, showing the music\u2019s influence during the WWII years. The second act presents a tribute to those who fought in the war.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-piece String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra, the \u201cIn the Mood\u201d singers and swing dancers come together to perform more than 40 songs like \u201cChattanooga Choo Choo,\u201d \u201cBoogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B),\u201d \u201cIn The Mood,\u201d \u201cTuxedo Junction,\u201d and \u201cSing, Sing, Sing\u201d among others.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artbeatshows.org\/\">www.artbeatshows.org<\/a>. For ticket information, call the Timmons Arena Box Office at 864-294-3097, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timmonsarena.com\/\">www.timmonsarena.com<\/a>. Tickets may also be purchased through Ticketmaster by calling 800-745-3000, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/\">www.ticketmaster.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big band, swing dance musical revue known as \u201cIn the Mood\u201d will be performed Thursday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on the Furman campus. \u201cIn the Mood\u201d celebrates America\u2019s Greatest Generation through the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskine Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and other idols of the 1940s. The revue features authentic music arrangements, costumes and choreography which combine to recreate the big band era, showing the music\u2019s influence during the WWII years. The second act presents a tribute to those who fought in the war.\u00a0Tickets are $29 &#8211; $49 plus service charges and are available at Timmons Arena or Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}