{"id":75,"date":"2020-10-21T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/?p=75"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:41:08","slug":"final-essay-topic-the-phantom-of-the-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/2020\/10\/21\/final-essay-topic-the-phantom-of-the-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Essay Topic: The Phantom of the Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For my final project, I want to focus on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Phantom of the Opera<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and how the musical represents almost every theme and topic that we have discussed in class. From physical disability to operatic themes of innocence and sexuality to interesting gender dynamics, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Phantom of the Opera<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> offers a complex story that is only enhanced by its music. With my new knowledge and understanding from this course, I want to critically evaluate this musical and figure out why it deserves to be the longest running show on Broadway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my final project, I want to focus on The Phantom of the Opera and how the musical represents almost every theme and topic that we have discussed in class. From physical disability to operatic themes of innocence and sexuality &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/2020\/10\/21\/final-essay-topic-the-phantom-of-the-opera\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus123\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}