{"id":118009,"date":"2024-07-10T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/10\/get-tix-to-see-ariana-grande-host-virtual-conversation-with-her-wicked-director\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:01:55","slug":"get-tix-to-see-ariana-grande-host-virtual-conversation-with-her-wicked-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/10\/get-tix-to-see-ariana-grande-host-virtual-conversation-with-her-wicked-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Get tix to see Ariana Grande host virtual conversation with her &#8216;Wicked&#8217; director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-09\/Getty_JohnChuArianaGrandecomposite_070924.jpg\" alt><figcaption> L: Jon M. Chu; Monica Schipper\/Getty Images; R: Ariana Grande; Disney\/Chris Willard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong>: singer, songwriter, producer, businesswoman, actress \u2014 and moderator?<\/p>\n<p>On July 22, Ariana will host an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.prh.com\/viewfinder-event-jon-m-chu-jeremy-mccarter-ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>online discussion<\/strong><\/a> with her <em>Wicked<\/em> director, <strong>Jon M. Chu<\/strong>, about his upcoming memoir, <em>Viewfinder<\/em>. The virtual event, which\u00a0will be prerecorded, also includes Chu&#8217;s co-author, <strong>Jeremy McCarter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The three will discuss the book, in which Chu details his experience as a first-generation Chinese America who was discovered by <strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong> and went on to make films like <em>Crazy Rich Asians,<\/em> <em>In the Heights<\/em>, <em>Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,<\/em> two <em>Step Up<\/em> sequels and, of course, the <em>Wicked<\/em> films.<\/p>\n<p>Ariana and the two men will also talk about<em> Wicked<\/em> and how they stay creatively inspired.<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase tickets to the\u00a0one-hour event, which includes the cost of a copy of the book, now via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/viewfinder-virtual-event-tickets-936246196577?aff=Viewfinder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>EventBrite.com<\/strong><\/a>. If you can&#8217;t join the one-time-only 7 p.m. ET stream, it&#8217;ll be shared exclusively with ticket holders for two weeks afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L: Jon M. Chu; Monica Schipper\/Getty Images; R: Ariana Grande; Disney\/Chris Willard Ariana Grande: singer, songwriter, producer, businesswoman, actress \u2014 and moderator? On July 22, Ariana will host an\u00a0online discussion with her Wicked director, Jon M. Chu, about his upcoming memoir, Viewfinder. The virtual event, which\u00a0will be prerecorded, also includes<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/10\/get-tix-to-see-ariana-grande-host-virtual-conversation-with-her-wicked-director\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}