{"id":62779,"date":"2016-04-13T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=62779"},"modified":"2016-04-01T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T01:51:01","slug":"the-changing-face-of-broadway-race-and-diversity-in-the-american-musical-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=62779","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Face of Broadway: Race and Diversity in the American Musical Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 13  07:30pm<br \/>\nLeonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space<br \/>\n2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ChristineToyJohnson_PhotoCreditBruceAlanJohnson.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[62779]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ChristineToyJohnson_PhotoCreditBruceAlanJohnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An exploration of the challenges and rewards of nontraditional casting and the changing landscape of ethnic diversity on the Broadway stage, featuring live performances and a panel discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Christine Toy Johnson &#8211; actor, writer, and award-winning activist on issues of diversity and discrimination in the arts.<\/p>\n<p>With appearances and performances by:<\/p>\n<p>LaChanze (Tony Award Winner for The Color Purple; Once on This Island, If\/Then, Dessa Rose)<\/p>\n<p>Alvin Hough, Jr. (Pianist &amp; current Associate Conductor of The Color Purple)<\/p>\n<p>Tara Rubin (casting director, School of Rock &#8211; The Musical, Bullets Over Broadway, Les Mis\u00e9rables, Aladdin)<\/p>\n<p>Jack Viertel (Artistic Director of Encores!, Senior Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters)<\/p>\n<p>Kat Nejat (West Side Story, Lysistrata Jones)<\/p>\n<p>Raymond J. Lee<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and information at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symphonyspace.org\/event\/8922\/Film-Music\/the-changing-face-of-broadway-race-and-diversity-in-the-american-musical-theater\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.symphonyspace.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 13 07:30pm Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62781,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62779\/revisions\/62781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}