{"id":11175,"date":"2013-03-14T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:18:27","slug":"life-of-texas-governor-and-baylor-alum-ann-richards-being-retold-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2013\/03\/life-of-texas-governor-and-baylor-alum-ann-richards-being-retold-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of Texas Governor (and Baylor alum) Ann Richards being retold on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"annrichardsplay-mar13\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/annrichardsplay-mar13.jpg\" alt=\"Ann Richards play on Broadway\" width=\"200\" \/>This September would have marked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ann_Richards\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Richards<\/a>&#8216; 80th birthday. Instead, the life of the Baylor alum and former Texas governor was cut short by cancer in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>But her legacy lives on, most recently in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theannrichardsplay.com\" target=\"_blank\">a one-person play, &#8220;Ann,&#8221; which debuted on Broadway<\/a> last weekend. Written by and starring Holland Taylor (perhaps best known as the mother on <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>), &#8220;Ann&#8221; received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-cm-holland-taylor-ann-richards-broadway-20130308,0,1530874.story\" target=\"_blank\">favorable reviews<\/a> following its opening\u00a0Thursday. <strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/XWuCSt\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see video from &#8220;Ann.&#8221;<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taylor spent four years researching and writing the play, as detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/theater.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/17\/theater\/holland-taylor-plays-ann-richards-former-texas-governor.html?ref=annwrichards&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">this <em>New York Times<\/em> story<\/a>. In three parts, Taylor-as-Richards recounts her life growing up in Texas, relives a day as governor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/07\/long-tradition-of-bears-in-texas-government-continues-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of four Baylor graduates to have governed Texas<\/a>), \u00a0and her life out of office.<\/p>\n<p>Richards, BA &#8217;54, is also the subject of a new book by Jan Reid. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Let-People-In-Times-Richards\/dp\/0292719647\" target=\"_blank\">Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards<\/a><\/em> benefits from the author&#8217;s long friendship with Richards, retelling her entire life story, from growing up in Waco through her final years.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Gov. Richards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This September would have marked Ann Richards&#8216; 80th birthday. Instead, the life of the Baylor alum and former Texas governor was cut short by cancer in 2006. But her legacy lives on, most recently in a one-person play, &#8220;Ann,&#8221; which debuted on Broadway last weekend. Written by and starring Holland Taylor (perhaps best known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-extraordinary-stories","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}