A high school teacher told me today that their school has the rights to.......- Page 2

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:26am

i thought the rights were avaliable a while ago. hehe yes you can email ALW directly on the really useful group website

[dotvmike]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:33am

Sorry I meant that the rights for Cats are being released Jan. 2006 for High School productions. Cats had been released before for like community theatres only.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:35am

hehe k

[ALWrules]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:38am

To an Oregonian from the middle of nowhere it is mindboggling that a school would spend 500,000 on one play

[zzannahk]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:40am

its sad to think that some schools cannot afford art and music programs and then we have idiots wasting money because they cant find something in the public domain for free!

[ALWrules]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:42am

yeah, in my state schools art has been cut way, way back.Our school is really the exception to the norm of terrible high school theater in the state.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 10:34am

Care to P.M. me that addy?

[DreamFlyer22]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 10:52am

Something tells me there's a fan script floating around out there, culled from Phantom Phans who have seen the show enough to be able to transcribe the entire script (Wicked fans have done this too, from what I've heard). Just a guess, but if this fan script was to make its way in to the hands of high school directors who also have access to the vocal score material that's already available... bingo, illegal production on your hands.

A high school near me was just busted for trying to pull off Phantom of the Opera, too. All I can figure is, MAYBE they DID get the rights to Yeston's "Phantom" and decided that they could use that as a cover for putting on Webber's instead?