I did say we did it for the Bicentennial, lol - that would be 1976.
I'm pretty sure we kept the boozin'/whorin' line. Hopkins got to drink all his rum (until he was cut off, of course). "Virility/sexual combustibility" was there. Saltpeter remained, though of course it's not used as a sexual reference in the show. (We didn't do that "Compliments" reprise near the end of the show, probably because we didn't have that music - we only had the published vocal selections book for music.)
I don't remember how many innuendos were kept in the Martha scene, but I'm sure some were cut.
I do remember this, though. We did 2 performances - one during the school day for the students, and one at night for the parents/community/etc. We had been leaving out the "and may my wife refuse my bed" lyric in "The Lees Of Old Virginia" - but I remember my friend who played Lee - that girl who lived down the street - asked the director if she could put the lyric back in for the adult evening performance. The answer was no. ;-)
Another fun story about the adult elements of the show, though - many years later (the fall of 2006, to be exact), I did a professional regional production of the show in Boston. We did a school day performance for, I assume, middle school and high school students. When Martha first entered and went into that very long kiss with Jefferson, we heard a young male voice from the audience saying "take a breath!" Ah, kids... |
