school musicals- Page 2

[bjivie2]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 8:50pm

There's a school in a nearby city that is famous for doing totally inapropriate shows for high schools one year and then a totally boring show the next. In order, here's everything they've done in the last few years...

Cabaret
Hello, Dolly!
Man of La Mancha
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Gypsy
The Fantasticks
Assasins
Oklahoma!

For a high school to do Cabaret, Man of La Mancha and Gypsy is unheard of. Forum is a bit iffy with the brothel and everything, but La Mancha has a rape scene and centers around a whore, Gypsy is about strippers, Assasins is about the obvious, and Cabaret is, well, Cabaret. I love all those shows, but I'm so surprised that the director has kept his job. Next thing you know they'll be doing The Full Monty!

[Joshua488]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 8:52pm

...FORUM isn't inappropriate for high school! Courtesans and all that stuff isn't THAT shocking.

[kangaroo]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 8:56pm

My favorite was Pirates of Penzance

My least was Annie Get Your Gun & Les Mis
[Les Mis might surprise you... but the only reason I don't like the show is because the leads are really bad and how he, my choir teacher, chose the leads were purely political]

[bjivie2]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 8:59pm

IIIIIIIIII don't think it's inaproriate, but school boards and parents are crazy and try to shield their children from everything. At least where I grew up we would NEVER be able to get away with ...Forum. We couldn't even have a guy appear shirtless on stage because of his exposed nipples.

[theatermom4]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 9:26pm

futurewinnerbud...are you talking about Parada at the Orange County High School of the Arts? It was fabulous!!! Very moving. The school's c.d. sounded very much like the Broadway version.