{"id":1032,"date":"2023-11-15T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2023-11-15T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:23:44","slug":"staging-mythology-in-the-lightning-thief-the-percy-jackson-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/2023\/11\/15\/staging-mythology-in-the-lightning-thief-the-percy-jackson-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Staging Mythology in The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Amy Norgard, Associate Professor of Classics, recently teamed up with the cast and crew of the Truman Theatre production of <em>The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical<\/em>\u00a0for a special event on <strong>Staging Mythology<\/strong>. A\u00a0scholar on the receptions of ancient literature in contemporary media, Dr. Norgard discussed the mythological underpinnings of the Percy Jackson franchise. Then the cast and crew of <em>The Lightning Thief<\/em>, led by student dramaturgs Jonah Husgen and Parker Shinn, performed a scene from the production and led a discussion about\u00a0staging\u00a0mythology\u00a0in the show. This event was jointly sponsored by the Theatre Department and the Classics Program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2023\/11\/Staging-Mythology-Instagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1033\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2023\/11\/Staging-Mythology-Instagram-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2023\/11\/Staging-Mythology-Instagram-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2023\/11\/Staging-Mythology-Instagram-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2023\/11\/Staging-Mythology-Instagram-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2023\/11\/Staging-Mythology-Instagram-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/files\/2023\/11\/Staging-Mythology-Instagram.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Amy Norgard, Associate Professor of Classics, recently teamed up with the cast and crew of the Truman Theatre production of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical\u00a0for a special event on Staging Mythology. A\u00a0scholar on the receptions of ancient literature in contemporary media, Dr. Norgard discussed the mythological underpinnings of the Percy Jackson franchise. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/cml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}