{"id":135473,"date":"2026-03-11T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135473\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:09:07","slug":"musical-showcase-highlighting-artists-of-color-to-hit-stage-at-civic-theatre-of-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135473\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical showcase highlighting artists of color to hit stage at Civic Theatre of Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The family is getting back together. The musical showcase known as The Family Reunion hits the stage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/civictheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Civic Theatre of Allentown<\/a> on March 21 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Juanita Renay and Veronica Cummings visited 69 News at Sunrise Wednesday morning to tell us more.<\/p>\n<p>The showcase features artists of color, highlighting Black artists through history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Family Reunion chooses the songs that will be played based on what people who audition for the show sing.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Reunion covers of famous artists such as Michael Jackson, Beyonce, and Luther Vandross.<\/p>\n<p>The event is celebrating Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Folks attending the musical showcase can rep their college by what they wear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group performed &#8220;Baby Love&#8221; by The Supremes and &#8220;We Are Family&#8221; by Sister Sledge for\u00a069 News at Sunrise Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The family is getting back together. The musical showcase known as The Family Reunion hits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,3705],"class_list":["post-135473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}