Most Controversial Show?

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 8:04pm

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.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 8:08pm

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.

[marincrazy11]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 8:25pm

i'd have to say Assassins and Parade was pretty controversial as well

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 9:07pm

FULL PUPPET NUDITY!!!!!!!!

[Mattio98]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 9:15pm

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.

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 10:07pm

I never saw it, but I could imagine that Sweeny Todd got some mixed reactions.

[aspiringguy715]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 10:08pm

i've read some reviews that Caroline, or Change stirred people's minds, but idk if thats controversial

[dry2olives]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 10:39pm

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).

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 10:45pm

Although Debbie Does Dallas only ran a few months, Hedwig had a two year run at the Jane St. That's pretty successful.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 10:51pm

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.

[Mattio98]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 11:24pm

"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.

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:30am

I loved how some people were freaked out by THE GOAT

LOVED IT

I sent some people, & a few of them were mad at me, they were so offended

[joeyjoe]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:43am

wasn't Oh! Calcutta pretty controversial in it's day?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:51am

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.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:57am

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.

[BroadwayBound06]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 12:37pm

Jerry Springer The Opera... nuff said

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 12:47pm

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

Posted: 4/26/04 at 12:51pm

JCS had picket lines for part of its tour last year.

[Ruffian]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 12:53pm

ThirdRow....I am with you concerning "THE GOAT"

I found it to be an amazing & thought-provoking evening

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 1:19pm

LET MY PEOPLE COME!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 1:28pm

"Frog and Toad." I can't believe there was that much nudity and violence in a show ostensibly for children.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 1:38pm

The Goat.

[JakeB]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 4:20pm

Hardly any of these shows are really 'controversial' - especially Assassins. You're forgetting the generation of shock plays such as Edward Bond's Saved, Sarah Kane (in general - but in particular Blasted) and Mamet's Oleanna. And also plays by Mark Ravenhill.

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 4:28pm

Jake what about "Far Away" by Caryl Churchill

[Benzy92]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 4:31pm

Avenue Q