{"id":5752,"date":"2013-03-05T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2013-03-05T07:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T12:00:44","slug":"roy-sexton-95-in-legally-blonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/03\/05\/roy-sexton-95-in-legally-blonde\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Sexton &#039;95 in Legally Blonde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/03\/Roy-sexton-0304131.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5756\" title=\"Roy sexton 030413\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/03\/Roy-sexton-0304131-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>Roy Sexton &#8217;95\u00a0<\/strong>has been cast as one of the principals in <em>Legally Blonde the Musical <\/em>at Farmington Players in Farmington Hills, MI. Sexton will portray Callahan, pompous and scheming head of the law firm that hires Elle Woods as a summer intern. The 2007 Tony-nominated musical is based on the 2001 Reese Witherspoon film from MGM. Callahan was played by Victor Garber in the movie. Farmington Players&#8217; production opens April 26 and runs through May 18. Tickets can be purchased at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.farmingtonplayers.org&amp;h=mAQGABdRF&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\">www.farmingtonplayers.org<\/a> or by calling <a href=\"tel:248-553-2955\" target=\"_blank\">248-553-2955<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/03\/Legally-Blonde-sexton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5759\" title=\"Legally Blonde sexton\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/03\/Legally-Blonde-sexton-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a>Roy\u00a0most recently had the lead role Georg Nowack in last summer&#8217;s production of <em>She Loves Me<\/em> with Ann Arbor&#8217;s The Penny Seats, a theatre company he co-founded. He has also appeared in <em>Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)<\/em>, <em>What Corbin Knew<\/em>, <em>Oklahoma!<\/em>, <em>The Pajama Game<\/em>, <em>Company<\/em>, <em>Bells are Ringing, Rags<\/em>, <em>Side by Side by Sondheim<\/em>, <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em>, <em>Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>, <em>The Fantasticks<\/em>, <em>The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em>, <em>Ah, Wilderness!<\/em>, <em>God&#8217;s Country<\/em>, <em>The American Clock<\/em>, <em>As You Like It, Tartuffe<\/em>, <em>The Battle of Shallowford<\/em>, <em>Trout, <\/em>and <em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He is also an active cabaret performer, and\u00a0holds a masters in theatre from Ohio State. In 2007, Roy\u00a0received his MBA from the University of Michigan. He is vice president of marketing and planning for Trott &amp; Trott, PC, a real estate law firm in Metro Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for the news, Roy!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Sexton &#8217;95\u00a0has been cast as one of the principals in Legally Blonde the Musical at Farmington Players in Farmington Hills, MI. Sexton will portray Callahan, pompous and scheming head of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}