{"id":556,"date":"2010-05-11T16:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=556"},"modified":"2010-05-11T16:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:12:12","slug":"jim-lewis-79-nominated-for-tony-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/05\/11\/jim-lewis-79-nominated-for-tony-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Lewis \u201979 Nominated for Tony Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Lewis \u201979, a history and philosophy major at Colorado College, has been nominated for\u00a0his work on \u201cFela!,\u201d the Broadway musical that has received 11 Tony Award nominations. Lewis and Bill T. Jones were nominated for &#8220;Best Book of a Musical,&#8221; which is awarded to librettists\u00a0of the spoken, non-sung dialogue, and storyline of a musical play. The award\u00a0 originally was called the &#8220;Tony Award for Best Author,&#8221; until musicals were split from dramas.\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Fela!&#8221; is about 1970s Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and explores the extravagant, decadent, and rebellious world of the Afrobeat legend. The Tony Awards will be presented on June 13 at Radio City Music Hall. \u201cFela!\u201d is tied with musical revival \u201cLa Cage aux Folles\u201d for the most nominations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Lewis \u201979, a history and philosophy major at Colorado College, has been nominated for\u00a0his work on \u201cFela!,\u201d the Broadway musical that has received 11 Tony Award nominations. Lewis and Bill T. Jones were nominated for &#8220;Best Book of a Musical,&#8221; which is awarded to librettists\u00a0of the spoken, non-sung dialogue, and storyline of a musical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/05\/11\/jim-lewis-79-nominated-for-tony-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jim Lewis \u201979 Nominated for Tony Award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kudos","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}