{"id":7611,"date":"2022-08-19T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2022-08-19T15:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:29:29","slug":"nathan-granner-movie-star-susan-engles-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/nathan-granner-movie-star-susan-engles-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Granner- Movie Star &#8211; Susan Engle\u2019s son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Usually the story is about the usher, but you will all be astounded at the Usher Mom story. Some of you know my son, long time Kansas City resident Opera singer Nathan Granner.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He was the artistic director of the first non Kauffman Center resident production about composer Virgil Thomson\u2019s music sung by a variety of Kansas City<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>produced by an Atlanta PBS station.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(The production was never aired.) Being the mom of the artistic director and singer, I got a backstage pass and sat in the green room during rehearsals pretending to be a famous person.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I also got to sit on the Helzburg stage during a UMKC Conservatory performance where Nathan was one of the singers. \u00a0I had no idea that I would be an usher in late 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nathan left Kansas City to get a Masters of Music at UCLA. \u00a0Turns out, that was the winning ticket for his opera career. \u00a0UCLA music professors can help navigate a student\u2019s opera career, during and after their student status. \u00a0Most of the Nathan\u2019s professors are also opera singers. \u00a0Win Win for referrals!<\/p>\n<p>His career sustained the cost of living in LA, even during the pandemic. \u00a0Two years ago, the big blast came. \u00a0Nathan got a call to ask if he would take a role in a movie! \u00a0The original plan was to produce an opera, but everything locked down when Covid hit. \u00a0Restrictions loosened but opera venues were still closed. \u00a0 It was decided to make a movie instead of an opera!<\/p>\n<p>Your Kansas City boy is the star of Mr. Chips! \u00a0The book was written in 1939 and two movies were made of it. \u00a0This version of Mr. Chips is the first ever OPERA MOVIE!<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly got to watch two days of filming. \u00a0When I was there, 3 people were filmed with a movie crew of 54 people! \u00a0Movies are filmed in San Francisco Treasure Island in huge WW II Air Force hangers! \u00a0(HUGE). The crew are professional set designers, sound people, 6 people on the camera crew, producer, director etc! \u00a0Nathan had his own trailer in the hanger!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually the story is about the usher, but you will all be astounded at the Usher Mom story. Some of you know my son, long time Kansas City resident Opera singer Nathan Granner.\u00a0 He was the artistic director of the first non Kauffman Center resident production about composer Virgil Thomson\u2019s music sung by a variety of Kansas City\u00a0 produced by an Atlanta PBS station.\u00a0 (The production was never aired.) Being the mom of the artistic director and singer, I got a backstage pass and sat in the green room during&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nathan-granner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7642,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/7642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}