{"id":6935,"date":"2013-10-05T18:49:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T23:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2017-12-11T20:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:43:22","slug":"being-brian-dennehy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=6935","title":{"rendered":"Being Brian Dennehy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6936\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6936\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6936\" title=\"Timothy Bond, Artistic Director, Syracuse Stage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bond-seal1.jpg\" alt=\"Timothy Bond, Artistic Director, Syracuse Stage\" width=\"508\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bond-seal1.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bond-seal1-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Bond,\u00a0Producing Artistic Director at Syracuse Stage,\u00a0said Brian Dennehy was one of his heroes because he practices what he preaches about the importance of regional theater.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seasoned actor Brian Dennehy, whose son attends Syracuse University, was a special guest for the Friday night portion of\u00a0Orange Central.\u00a0 He was joined in conversation and an occasional gut-busting laugh by Syracuse Stage&#8217;s Timothy Bond.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0event was held at the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium (Newhouse complex).<\/p>\n<p>During the hour-long program,\u00a0 Dennehy\u00a0gave numerous anecdotes about\u00a0writers Jimmy Breslin and Frank McCourt, as well as\u00a0actors\u00a0Kevin Kline and Zero Mostel.<\/p>\n<p>He discuseed his numerous roles in film, television and his first love, regional theater. &#8220;What happens in the theater can only happen in the theater,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dennehy, whose\u00a0career spans five\u00a0decades, also gave\u00a0a reading, told some jokes, and even sang\u00a0during a musical interlude\u00a0with pianist\u00a0Jeff Sawyer\u00a0(an SU grad).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6937\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6937\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6937\" title=\"Brian Dennehy, an actor's actor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/briandennehy.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Dennehy, an actor's actor, prepared for a reading of the work of Arthur Miller on Friday night.\" width=\"508\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/briandennehy.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/briandennehy-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Dennehy, an actor&#8217;s actor, prepared for a reading of the work of Arthur Miller on Friday night.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasoned actor Brian Dennehy, whose son attends Syracuse University, was a special guest for the Friday night portion of\u00a0Orange Central.\u00a0 He was joined in conversation and an occasional gut-busting laugh by Syracuse Stage&#8217;s Timothy Bond. The\u00a0event was held at the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium (Newhouse complex). During the hour-long program,\u00a0 Dennehy\u00a0gave numerous anecdotes about\u00a0writers Jimmy Breslin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[2524,3271,3270,3272,3261,1354,64,1242,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24227,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/24227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}