{"id":2430,"date":"2025-04-01T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:46:10","slug":"come-see-spring-musical-the-spitfire-grill-4-10-4-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/come-see-spring-musical-the-spitfire-grill-4-10-4-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Come See Spring Musical The Spitfire Grill 4\/10-4\/19!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman running from her past. A town with no future. An ember of hope in the deepest darkness. Travel north to small-town Wisconsin when Ohio Wesleyan University\u2019s Department of Performing Arts presents five free performances of\u00a0<em>The Spitfire Grill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the musical, Percy, a recent parolee, lands in Gilead, Wisconsin, a small town economically ravaged in a post- Vietnam industrial landscape and emotionally devastated by the loss of its best and brightest. Through vulnerability, dogged determination, and a plan so zany it just might work, Percy revives the town and finds her own new life to live in the process.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Spitfire Grill<\/em>\u00a0has music and book by James Valcq and lyrics and book by Fred Alley, and is based on the 1996 film by Lee David Zlotoff. A slice of Americana with a bluegrass and folk-inspired score,\u00a0<em>The Spitfire Grill<\/em>\u00a0celebrates community, redemption, and facing life\u2019s challenges hand-in-hand. This musical shows at 7:30 p.m. April 10, 11, 12, 18, and 19 on the Main Stage of Chappelear Drama Center, 45 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Tickets are free but should be reserved in advance by visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.owu.edu\/spitfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.owu.edu\/spitfire&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1743626473821000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0kZGCYSKr732_yFF3nGNcB\">www.owu.edu\/spitfire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong>\u00a0Department of Performing Arts<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Lusie Cuskey at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lmcuskey@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lmcuskey@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman running from her past. A town with no future. An ember of hope in the deepest darkness. Travel north to small-town Wisconsin when Ohio Wesleyan University\u2019s Department of Performing Arts presents five free performances of\u00a0The Spitfire Grill. In the musical, Percy, a recent parolee, lands in Gilead, Wisconsin, a small town economically ravaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[363,251,253,545,252],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life-academics","tag-musical","tag-performing-arts","tag-production","tag-spitfire-grill","tag-theatre"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}