{"id":14905,"date":"2015-08-12T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=14905"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:23:05","slug":"14905_engaged-college-of-the-arts-alumni-video-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/2015\/08\/12\/14905_engaged-college-of-the-arts-alumni-video-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaged! College of the Arts Alumni Video Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Musical Theatre alumna Amanda Phillips \u201911 agreed to film a professional demo reel with fellow alumnus Joshua Dela Cruz \u201911 in Central Park, she got more than a stunning film of the couple\u2019s dazzling footwork: she got engaged. And their engagement video is viral and streaming on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/2237281\/joshua-dela-cruz-amanda-phillips-dance-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTV.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Set to \u201cYou Make Me Feel So Young\u201d sung by Frank Sinatra, the two pirouetted, twirled and beamed at each other under a sunlit, cobalt sky in Central Park. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dela Cruz, who is currently a member of the ensemble cast in Broadway\u2019s <em>Aladdin<\/em>, stopped midway through the routine and got down on one knee. Phillips, who recently toured with the production <em>White<\/em> <em>Christmas<\/em>, accepted and wept after the surprise proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Writer Joseph Lamour, who wrote a piece on the two College of the Arts alumni for MTV, called it the \u201ccutest dance sequence ever\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mtvnews?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">MTV News&#8217; Facebook page<\/a> gushed over the video, remarking \u201cYou will not stop crying after this.\u201d On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MTV?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">MTV\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>, the video garnered over 2,600 likes. &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/style\/surprise-dancing-proposal-featuring-frank-sinatra-yes-please-t40876\">Today.com<\/a>&nbsp;also featured the video calling it a &quot;proposal that rivals the movies.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The two alumni have spent five years together, while also studying and training as students in the Department of Theatre and Dance before graduating in 2011.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our engaged alumni who clearly are a match made in Musical Theatre heaven!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Musical Theatre alumna Amanda Phillips \u201911 agreed to film a professional demo reel with fellow alumnus Joshua Dela Cruz \u201911 in Central Park, she got more than a stunning film of the couple\u2019s dazzling footwork: she got engaged. And their engagement video is viral and streaming on MTV.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":114905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}