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#1

Most Controversial Show?

What's the most controversial show you've ever seen/heard? I'm guessing Assasins is going to be on the majority of the answers, lol.
"I really liked the show--Wish I saw Boy's Night...Am I allowed as I am not a boy anymore:)"-duffyny1
#2

re: Most Controversial Show?

In its time..."The Rocky Horror Show". I can't believe they ever got someone to produce it, without the cult following that it now has.
#3

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i'd have to say Assassins and Parade was pretty controversial as well
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Hair was pretty controversial in its original Broadway life. Rent and Avenue Q are both "risque" but handled in a way such that neither has really caused a great deal of controversy. Hedwig and Debbie Does Dallas probably would've been controversial had they been more commercially successful.
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I never saw it, but I could imagine that Sweeny Todd got some mixed reactions.
"I really liked the show--Wish I saw Boy's Night...Am I allowed as I am not a boy anymore:)"-duffyny1
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Well, the only Broadway shows I can name that were so controversial they had protesters outside the theatre were Miss Saigon (regarding the casting of Jonathan Pryce) and The Capeman (from victims rights groups).
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CATSNY-I'm not sure I understand your post about Rocky Horror. When you say it was controversial in its time, are you referring to the very first mounting of the stage show, back in the '70's? At that point it had no following yet. The movie, 1975, is the highest grossing cult film, I believe. It's still running 29 years later. It's no surprise that it was produced on broadway with that kind of following.
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"Although Debbie Does Dallas only ran a few months, Hedwig had a two year run at the Jane St. That's pretty successful."

I didn't know it ran that long, but what I meant was that it wasn't really mainstream theatre.
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Though I never actually saw it, I was in a production of Coprus Christi (Judas) that raised a few eyebrows and received numerous phone calls. Most were from concerned parents from a private school across the street from the theatre.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
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ah Yes - Corpus Christi - a truly wonderful show and very controversial. However, I don't think Assassins will be very controversial. What with the things shown on TV and movies every day of the year - nothing is shocking about this show (to me anyway) the only thing I can think of in Assassins that might offend someone is the line that Mario Cantone's character has about crashing a jet into the Capitol to kill Dick Nixon...that might stir up a few audience members with its similarity to 9/11..but otherwise -nothing much shocking happens in the show.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
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Joeyjoe, I was trying to remember the name of that show "Oh, Calcutta." Thanks. Yes, I agree it was a very contraversial show in it's day.

Ruffian "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia" was one of my favorites. Friends of mine were repelled. I loved every second of the show.

Some were put off by "Take Me Out." I saw a few women cringing during the shower scenes.

Updated On: 4/26/04 at 12:47 PM

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