{"id":17853,"date":"2015-02-04T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=17853"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:40:55","slug":"f-scott-fitzgerald-classic-the-great-gatsby-comes-to-fort-hays-state-beachschmidt-performing-arts-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=17853","title":{"rendered":"F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, &#8220;The Great Gatsby&#8221; comes to Fort Hays State Beach\/Schmidt Performing Arts Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAYS, Kan. &#8212;<\/strong> Continuing the tradition of telling great American stories, the Montana Repertory Theatre returns to the Beach\/Schmidt Performing Arts Center with the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby, as a part of the 2014-2015 Encore Series. The performance is set for 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p>In this stage adaptation, the audience is transported back to the Roaring Twenties as it follows would-be-writer Nick Caraway chasing his own American dream. Nick leaves the Midwest for New York and lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich and their illusions, love, deceit and tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Artistic Director Greg Johnson, Montana Repertory Theatre was established as a professional touring company in 1968 and is the theatre-in-residence at the University of Montana. As one of the most respected touring companies in the country, the Rep assembles a team of actors, directors and designers with prestigious credits, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours of Broadway shows and major regional theatre.<\/p>\n<p>This performance is sponsored the Cedar Lodge Dental Group of Hays.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available at the Memorial Union Student Service Center, by calling 785-628-5306 or by visiting www.fhsu.edu\/encore. Tickets for the general public are $30 reserved and $26 unreserved; for seniors and children ages 5-17, tickets are $28 reserved and $24 unreserved; and for FHSU students, tickets are $21 reserved and $17 unreserved with a Tiger Card.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, call Vincent Bowhay at 785-628-4664 or email vebowhay@fhsu.edu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAYS, Kan. &#8212; Continuing the tradition of telling great American stories, the Montana Repertory Theatre returns to the Beach\/Schmidt Performing Arts Center with the F.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[544,4584,69,4583,4585],"class_list":["post-17853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","tag-encore-series","tag-f-scott-fitzgerald","tag-fhsu","tag-great-gatsby","tag-montana-repertory-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17858,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853\/revisions\/17858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}