| re: Censored high school musicals (should shows be cleaned up for kids?) |
| Last Edit: EvFoDr 04:13 pm EDT 05/18/23 |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 04:12 pm EDT 05/18/23 |
| In reply to: re: Censored high school musicals (should shows be cleaned up for kids?) - HunterHailey 12:55 pm EDT 05/18/23 |
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The OP does say "or just being changed (illegally) by individual directors." But if all of the examples given are from versions officially approved by the authors/rights holders, then there isn't much of a story here. One could dislike any of those official changes. But I am glad they exist to give schools the chance to present these shows in a legally altered way.
Of course not all shows are created equal. Avenue Q is so packed with adult, dirty, and prurient content it does seem to veer into "is this really a strong choice of a show for kids", even if there are author sanctioned changes. On the other hand, sometimes you have one word or one line in an entire show that would cancel it for kids, and it seems especially worthy to have an alternative. In high school we did (mostly plays) with scattered dirty words and had to sub them for softer words. I suppose this was done illegally. Neil Simon's Rumors comes to mind. This was such a fun farce for the cast and the audience that really doesn't have any questionable content, except one of the characters says "Fuck a duck" as a sort of tossed off exasperation. So we took that F bomb out. |
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