My Catholic boys high school put on "Song of Norway" with Jon Voight as one of the principals. (Yes, THAT Jon Voight!:) The show has a slightly off-color section of dialogue involving young guys and gals getting frisky during some festival. (It would be tame now, I'm certain, but this was the 1950s.) The cast rehearsed the original dialogue, but the director, a priest, decided not to use it. Everything went well until the Saturday matinee when, traditionally, the audience consisted entirely of invited priests, nuns and religious brothers. I was backstage when Voight inadvertently went into the original dialogue and the rest of the cast followed. The director/priest, standing next to me, immediately began tearing out large sections of the script and throwing them on the ground. Poor Jon caught hell when he finished the scene.
PS. Why has no one mentioned Rex Harrison's legendary fart during the run of "My Fair Lady"? |
