{"id":2675,"date":"2012-12-10T15:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T20:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2018-11-09T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:03:19","slug":"stage-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/stage-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Unique Journey: Stage Magazine Writes about The Circus in Winter Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Spring semester of 2010, theatre professor Beth Turcotte directed a Virginia Ball Center immersive learning seminar in which she and fourteen undergraduate students worked to write and produce a musical based on Ball State English professor Cathy Day&#8217;s book, <em>The Circus in Winter<\/em>. Since its beginnings, the musical has gone\u00a0on to the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/actf\/\">Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival<\/a> in Washington D.C., where it won many distinctions, including \u201cOutstanding Production of a New Work,\u201d \u201cOutstanding Director of a New Work,\u201d and \u201cOutstanding Scenic Design,\u201d before being selected as one of only eight musicals for inclusion in the <a href=\"http:\/\/namt.org\/index.aspx\">NAMT<\/a> festival. Now, <em>The Circus in Winter<\/em> musical will be performed in regional theatres across the country with the hopes of being produced as a Broadway musical in a few short years. Follow the link below to read a <em>Stage Magazine<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagemagazine.org\/2012\/12\/the-circus-in-winter-a-new-musical-on-a-unique-journey\/\">article about the musical including an extensive interview with Beth Turcotte, Ben Clark, and Cathy Day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagemagazine.org\/2012\/12\/the-circus-in-winter-a-new-musical-on-a-unique-journey\/\">http:\/\/www.stagemagazine.org\/2012\/12\/the-circus-in-winter-a-new-musical-on-a-unique-journey\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2677\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagemagazine.org\/2012\/12\/the-circus-in-winter-a-new-musical-on-a-unique-journey\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2677\" alt=\"The cast of Ball State University\u2019s production of THE CIRCUS IN WINTER. Photo credit: Ball State University Photo Services.\" src=\"http:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/circus7.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/12\/10100142\/circus7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/12\/10100142\/circus7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/12\/10100142\/circus7-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of Ball State University\u2019s production of THE CIRCUS IN WINTER. Photo credit: Ball State University Photo Services.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Spring semester of 2010, theatre professor Beth Turcotte directed a Virginia Ball Center immersive learning seminar in which she and fourteen undergraduate students worked to write and produce a musical based on Ball State English professor Cathy Day&#8217;s book, The Circus in Winter. 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