Wedding Singer Sat Mat for Kids?

[BROADWAYFAN3]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 7:50am

I heard something on the radio the the saturday mats are kid friendly, less langauage?

anyone know any more about this.

[Standing_O]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 9:21am

I was there on a wed mat when they did this. They just change lines like "you're an asshole!" to "you're a jerk!" and "dime bag and a transvestite" becomes "drag queen and a bottle of yagermeister." They take out a lot of the cursing basically.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 9:48am

I'm not sure if I like this idea. What about the regular adults that came to see the show? I we denied the real words? lol

Idk, if parents are so concerned with what their children hear, they shouldn't take them to see a show called "The Wedding Singer," based on an Adam Sandler movie when Beauty and the Beast is playing a block away.

Updated On: 6/22/06 at 09:48 AM

[LynchMob]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:12am

Lynch told me it was the Wed. matinee they made "kid friendly", not Saturdays.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 11:04am

I hate that they do this. If producers want to attract families, then they should produce kid-friendly shows. What about other audience-paying members who wanted to see the show? It's now dumbed down because stupid parents want to over-protect their kids. Considering the fact that there isn't language even in The Producers that kids don't use nowadays, I don't see how changing the swear words is necessary. Hell, when I was a kid (at the age of 7) I can still remember using all the major swear words at school with my friends. It's just a fact of life, and the ironic thing is that the parents objecting to this readily employed it themselves.

[mathewbrock]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 11:11am

I'd be more worried about exposing my kids to Felicia Finley's sex-craxed 80's punk rocker in her underwear scene. Honestly, there were two 5th or 6th graders there with their grandma when I saw it on a Saturday night and I was uncomfortable FOR their grandma having to deal with all sorts of questions afterward. Good lord. During intermission she turned around and said someone in the TKTS line told her this was a kid-friendly show. I would say definitely NOT.

[Jon]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 1:40pm

This type of thing is nothing new. In the orignal producitn of OLIVER in the early 1960's, Bill Sikes' beating/murder of Nancy was staged differently for the matinees - moved further upstage into the shadows and generally less explicit. Little kids would still know he beat her up, but it was less clear that he killed her - and less likely to traumatize the kids.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 2:06pm

A better question is whether anybody born in the 1990s is really going to get all the in jokes and 80s references. My daughter sure didn't. I mean, where would she have seen Pong?

The cursing she hears on the playground. Shielding her from that isn't going to help her enjoy the show.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 3:00pm

"If producers want to attract families, then they should produce kid-friendly shows."

Well, when they do do this, everyone complains...especially that Disney is taking over Broadway...when you look at the number of shows out there in NYC, Disney makes up little of the theatre produced.

[kim1061]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 3:07pm

does it really matter that they do this? so what if they say drag queen instead, i'd still see it. the words don't attract me to the show. i don't see why people would complain over changing the language. are you really going to be upset hearing jerk instead of asshole?

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 3:11pm

If they really want to make it kid friendly, maybe they should cut some of the more provacative scenes. Like when Linda is singing on the bed to Robbie.

What do they do during "Somebody Kill Me"? The line that says "I hope you f**kin choke!"? Seriously, if they wanted to make it "kid friendly" then just cutting out a few curse words doesn't make it that way.

Updated On: 6/22/06 at 03:11 PM

[Anakela]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 4:06pm

i don't see why people would complain over changing the language. are you really going to be upset hearing jerk instead of asshole?

That's totally interesting to me, because my take is- well, if the use of asshole is so unimportant, then why wasn't the show written with the word jerk in place in the first place?

I did not like TWS, that is not a secret, but I would have liked it a helluva lot less if without knowing it I ended up at some scrubbed-clean version of the show (unless the Wed matinee shows are being *publicized* as being scrubbed clean (?), in which case caveat emptor, but I didn't see anything about this after a quick glance at the official website) than at the 'real' show.

I expect to get "edited for your tv" versions of movies, not of Broadway productions.

[suzycat]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 4:27pm

Yes, they only water it down for the Wednesday matinees, not the Saturday ones (go figure).

[Standing_O]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 11:10pm

I hope you f*ckin choke becomes I hope you frickin choke.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 9:30am

"Lynch told me it was the Wed. matinee they made "kid friendly", not Saturdays."

Is that for the kids who are skipping school? :)

[Yeah, um, no.]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 10:40am

"Is that for the kids who are skipping school?"

Maybe you mean summer camp.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 11:23am

A lot of school groups usually go to Wednesday matinees.