Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd"
Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd"
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#2re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 9/20/08 at 10:00amThat's not such a huge deal. School boards do this all the time. The principal is pretty lame though to excuse his actions with "We've done too many dark shows." He should have discussed that with the directors before they made a decision.
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Juliash
Broadway Star Joined: 3/6/07
#2re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 9/20/08 at 12:01pmWell I think its completely justified considering they just had a student pass away...
#3re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 9/23/08 at 12:10amI think it was the right decision, but that's so sad for the guy who was cast as Sweeney Todd. If I got that role and then was told the show was cancelled... I would cry for days.
#4re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 9/23/08 at 8:46amgood, HS should not do Sweeney Todd
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
#5re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 9/23/08 at 9:00amSo they don't want a "dark" show, and then pick one where kids are on the run from Nazis???
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#6re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 9/23/08 at 2:37pmThey go from the sublime to the riduculous - the amazing Sweeney to the sappy, disgusting, overdone Sound of Music. My sympathy to both the student actors and the parents who have to watch it.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#7re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 9/23/08 at 2:45pmI think it would be nice if composers and playwrights had the integrity to say, "You know what, my show _________ should NOT be performed by high school students."
#8re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 9/24/08 at 9:03am
Too bad Sondheim was really involved with creating the HS version of Sweeney Todd.
Well it is a very metaphorical show and it's very dark and some people aren't comfortable with that. Like how Sarah Palin banned Merchant of Venice in Alaska. Because that play is SO offensive and dark. NOT. Way to ban Shakespeare.
#9re: Dallas H.S. not allowed to do 'Sweeney Todd'
Posted: 10/7/08 at 7:57pmI think they should be allowed to. It wouldn't have been good though. So sick of the sound of music though. It's gorgeous the first hundred times but now it's kind of old.
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