{"id":88852,"date":"2025-12-19T03:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88852\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:46:58","slug":"straz-to-present-the-outsiders-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88852\/","title":{"rendered":"Straz to present \u2018The Outsiders\u2019 | Diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 As part of the Bank of America Broadway at Straz Center series, \u201cThe Outsiders\u201d will be presented Dec. 27-Jan. 4, in Morsani Hall at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $71.80. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/strazcenter.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strazcenter.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of four 2024 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, \u201cThe Outsiders\u201d is adapted from S.E. Hinton\u2019s seminal novel and Frances Ford Coppola\u2019s iconic film. This thrilling new musical features a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, and music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine. Music supervision, orchestration and arrangements are by Justin Levine, with choreography by Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman and direction by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment Weekly says: &#8220;It has the power to inspire an entire generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1967, Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of \u201coutsiders\u201d battle with their affluent rivals, the Socs. The Outsiders navigates the complexities of self-discovery as the Greasers dream about who they want to become in a world that may never accept them. With a dynamic original score, \u201cThe Outsiders\u201d is a story of friendship, family, belonging \u2026 and the realization that there is still \u201clots of good in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 As part of the Bank of America Broadway at Straz Center series, \u201cThe Outsiders\u201d will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[276,13224,5168,135,137,136,33958,48140],"class_list":["post-88852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-musical","tag-straz-center","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-outsiders","tag-tony-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}