{"id":293,"date":"2014-04-10T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1968classnews\/?p=91"},"modified":"2014-05-30T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T20:05:54","slug":"trudene-rippe-westerman-celebrates-jim-harms-theater-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2014\/04\/10\/trudene-rippe-westerman-celebrates-jim-harms-theater-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudene Rippe &#8217;68 Westerman Celebrates Jim Harms&#8217; Theater Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2014\/04\/67-and-68-Ficca-Harms-and-Westerman1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-94\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/files\/2014\/04\/67-and-68-Ficca-Harms-and-Westerman1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"67 and 68 Ficca Harms and Westerman\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, April 5, 2014, Dr. John Ficca, former head of the Theater Arts school at Illinois Wesleyan, traveled to Glenview, Illinois, to join the staff and supporters of Light Opera Works in honoring actor, Jim Harms, \u201967, for his long career in theater, including his many roles in Light Opera Works\u2019 performances over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Trudene Rippe Westerman, \u201968, a member of the board of Light Opera Works, introduced Dr. Ficca who spoke to the fact that Jim Harms did not distinguish himself as an actor of note at Wesleyan.\u00a0 He went on to say that many of his students in the theater department have now distinguished themselves as lawyers, business people, teachers\u2026but that Jim Harms has indeed distinguished himself as a major actor in the world of theater.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Harms has made many contributions to musical theater with his portrayals of Don Quixote in\u00a0<i>Man of LaMancha<\/i>, Fagin in\u00a0<i>Oliver!<\/i>, the Major General in\u00a0<i>The Pirates of Penzance<\/i>, and he has toured nationally and internationally in\u00a0<i>Evita<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Fantasticks<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Jim has performed in many theaters throughout the Chicago area.\u00a0 At the Goodman Theatre, he was in the cast of<i>The Visit<\/i>\u00a0with Chita Rivera, and last season he played Jimmy\u00a0Tomorrow\u00a0in\u00a0<i>The Iceman Cometh<\/i>\u00a0with Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Harms is the recipient of an amazing 8 Joseph Jefferson Awards, and he has managed to craft together this long and remarkable career and still remain a wonderful and classy guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, April 5, 2014, Dr. John Ficca, former head of the Theater Arts school at Illinois Wesleyan, traveled to Glenview, Illinois, to join the staff and supporters of Light Opera Works in honoring actor, Jim Harms, \u201967, for his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2014\/04\/10\/trudene-rippe-westerman-celebrates-jim-harms-theater-career\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}