Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'
Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'
Stand-by Joined: 7/14/03
re: Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'#2
Posted: 9/19/08 at 6:01pmIt's nice to know the good people of Dallas have the sense not to let teenagers butcher the score. Good for them.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
re: Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'#2
Posted: 9/19/08 at 6:06pm
Not sure why THIS story is getting attention....
this kind of stuff happens every day, in our Public School System.
re: Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'#3
Posted: 9/19/08 at 6:14pm
I bet they were doing the school version,
http://www.mtishows.com/show_home.asp?ID=000330
re: Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'#4
Posted: 9/19/08 at 6:15pm
"We can't do SWEENEY TODD! It's too gruesome! We just did a bunch of dark stuff! Audiences want happy!"
"So what would you recommend?"
"FOOTLOOSE."
"NO! NO NO NO NO NO GOD******F*****NO!!!"
"Why not?!"
"There's drinking and death in it."
"Oh right, that's not great. SOUND OF MUSIC it is, then."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
re: Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'#5
Posted: 9/19/08 at 6:17pm
But 'The Sound of Music' has Nazis! How is that better than the relatively small and localised death count of 'Sweeney Todd'?
(Hey, if *they* can be stupid about this, then so can I. 
)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
re: Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'#6
Posted: 9/19/08 at 6:19pmHow about making Sweeney a Nazi?
re: Dallas school bars student production of 'Sweeney Todd'#7
Posted: 9/19/08 at 8:27pmYeah, Sound of Music isn't terribly light-hearted.
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