{"id":7392,"date":"2026-04-23T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:32:52","slug":"why-musicals-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/2026\/04\/23\/why-musicals-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Musicals Matter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>\u201cWhy Musicals Matter\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, 4\/25, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets: $15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Free admission provided for Students and Faculty thanks to the generous support of Dean Horswell&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Since its emergence on Broadway more than 125 years ago, the Musical, America\u2019s signature art form, has played an important role in reflecting, defining, and shaping America\u2019s culture and view of itself. This hour-long lecture will explore how great American artists from George M. Cohan to Lin-Manuel Miranda have helped to forge our national identity through their work as well as the vital importance of the cultivation, development, and production of new musicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy Musicals Matter\u201d Saturday, 4\/25, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 &nbsp;Free admission provided for Students and Faculty thanks to the generous support of Dean Horswell&nbsp; Since its emergence on Broadway more than 125 years ago, the Musical, America\u2019s signature art<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/2026\/04\/23\/why-musicals-matter\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7393,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}