Thursday, August 5, 2010

What the F#$K WERE THEY THINKING?




This is the most rediculous thing I've seen in a looooooong time. This can't even be categorized as campy it's just completely 100% wrong. I'm not one to speak out against art or be conservative but this is one exception. This is completely wrong. I really would like to know what went through the administrators heads who put this show on. Never mind putting on a full production of a show for 8 year olds whos voices (or minds) aren't even developed yet, the fact that the subject matter of the show is completely inappropriate for anyone under the age of 13 which it said in the playbill on Broadway. Why this theatre or school or whatever would even be allowed to perform this is beyond me. The show deals with themes of homosexuality, aids, drugs, sex, and poverty, aspects of life most or all of these kids have no idea what it means. The fact that there are children under the age of ten playing for instance a lesbian couple is so wrong. Not for the fact that the characters are lesbians, but because these kids don't know what it means to be lesbian, bisexual, or homoesexual. They are merely acting as a puppet of sorts of whoever is in control doing whatever they instructed by their "director" assuming that they know when to pull the plug and assume trust in the adults who should know when to say when. I am shocked by this production of the show which is not meant to be performed this way and is a piece of art that is meant for ADULTS dealing with ADULT themes that has an important message that should be acted out only when the actors, creative team and everyone involved understands that message. I really wish I could figure out where this place is and call them and ask them out of curiosity what they were thinking. Jonathon Larson would not be proud of what his show has become.

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