{"id":107,"date":"2010-07-23T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2010-07-23T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T15:40:04","slug":"broadway-rallies-for-lion-king-star-shannon-tavarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/broadway-rallies-for-lion-king-star-shannon-tavarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway Rallies for Lion King Star &#8211; Shannon Tavarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Shannon&#8217;s &#8220;Lion King&#8221; cast mates are coming together to hold a drive at the Minskoff Theater in Times Square, hoping to find a donor match. <\/p>\n<p>Those who would like to become bone marrow donors, can go online to dkmsamericas.org and sign up for a swab kit that will be sent in the mail. <\/p>\n<p>Results are sent to a lab for genetic testing and if it&#8217;s a match for anyone in the database, including Shannon, the donor receives a call. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re having a drive in the lobby, and I hope a lot of people come out because they can save my life or anyone else who&#8217;s going through what I&#8217;m going through,&#8221; said Shannon. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great feeling, performing for people and being young Nala, because she&#8217;s tough and I feel like that&#8217;s who I am through this whole experience,&#8221; said Shannon. <\/p>\n<p>Shannon, who has no siblings, is part African-American and part hispanic, but of the 7 million Americans listed as potential donors, only 12 percent are minorities. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s just a great kid,&#8221; said Joel Karie, a Broadway cast member. <\/p>\n<p>Shannon was hospitalized for two months, undergoing chemotherapy. She temporarily lost her hair but suffered no other side effects like nausea or loss of appetite. She gave her family a scare when she developed an IV line infection, but it later resolved. <\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nwpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Shannon&#8217;s &#8220;Lion King&#8221; cast mates are coming together to hold a drive at the Minskoff Theater in Times Square, hoping to find a donor match. Those who would like to become bone marrow donors, can go online to dkmsamericas.org and sign up for a swab kit that will be sent in the mail. Results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,53,44,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lionkingbroadwayticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}