{"id":32530,"date":"2012-05-16T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_faith_in_the_footlights_religion_gets_a_curtain_call_on_broadway\/"},"modified":"2012-05-16T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:40:18","slug":"cns_faith_in_the_footlights_religion_gets_a_curtain_call_on_broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32530","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Faith in the footlights: Religion gets a curtain call on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think there is a &#8220;God moment&#8221; breaking out in the entertainment culture that&#8217;s partly driven by a quest for profits in difficult economic times, but also by people&#8217;s never-ending quest for transcendent meaning,&#8221; said Tom Allen of Allied Faith and Family, a marketing agency that is trying to promote shows like &#8220;Sister Act&#8221; to Christians.<\/p>\n<p>The Tony-nominated musical is emblematic of this religious revival: flashy and brash, yet earnestly spiritual.<\/p>\n<p>The same can be said for the recently closed &#8220;Leap of Faith,&#8221; which is contemplating a possible national tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1201971.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think there is a &#8220;God moment&#8221; breaking out in the entertainment culture that&#8217;s partly driven by a quest for profits in difficult economic times, but also by people&#8217;s never-ending quest for transcendent meaning,&#8221; said Tom Allen of Allied Faith<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32530\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,108,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-theatredramaplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}