plays and musicals have been challenged or canceled recently. Parents or school officials have complained that the content isn't family friendly.at Cardinal High School in Middlefield, Ohio. But there, the story took a different turn.is a musical that debuted on Broadway in 2005, ran for nearly three years and won two Tony Awards. High schools love the show and perform it often. Teens get to play characters who are close to their own ages and experiences.
Rehearsals were going well. But about three weeks in, the director, music teacher Vanessa Allen, got an email from the Cardinal Schools' Superintendent asking why he was hearing about the school musical."And he mentioned something about inappropriate content," says Allen.
Yea!
Tax churches.
Better to let your pre-college kids do this show and discuss it. Parent them (as in the transitive verb) instead of sheltering them. You think high schoolers aren’t aware?
Everyone get thee to watch the movie “Hamlet 2” - exactly this theme. And outrageously funny.
Pro-tip from someone who’s hometown went through this: If you rehearse and perform off campus, they can’t say anything.
Have any of these people read the bible? Talk about inappropriate content!
High School theater group cries censorship cliche story on NPR. Shocker. 🙄
Good for those kids. So worried about books and sex ed and the kids get phones in elementary school that can google anything they want to know or see. Burning books speak to the ill informed. Makes them feel accomplished
Is censoring Tucker Carlson ok?
How long have high schools been putting on productions of “Grease?” 🤔
Remember how these same folks spent years harping about censorship?
It’s one song. My unfortunate erection. Not hard to cut one song.
robertjlundberg Middlefield, Ohio sounds like a horrible place to raise a family.
Chances are, these kids grandparents were singing to the music of Hair and probably going to Woodstock. Nut their parents? Oh! What a fragile bunch they've become.
I love theatre kids
Stay woke and toxic. 🤡🤡
Who would have thought justify selective subjective outrage would eventually become a problem when it was everyone complaining about everything? A republic requires tolerance from all sides to function. This is the poisoned fruit that was cultivate through canceled culture.
What a great compromise. The show will go on thanks to some help from some very important people.
They won’t stop till everthing is happy white straight males watching their little women cook & clean for their perfect, straight A,2.4 kids in a world where no one else exists.
A musical, about a spelling bee? That should be canceled. Whomever came up with that should be jailed. I almost fell asleep just reading that.
And a year from now, a bunch of these kids will be going to the midnight viewings of Rocky Horror Picture Show, dressing the part. But try and keep them sheltered and pretend that they don’t remember this shit when they vote.
School choice will help protect against censorship.
NPR knows how to play to their audience - theater majors.
Wow - the fuck your feelings crowd certainly has embraced the cancel culture of today’s gop. Never seen a softer group of so called men get so upset so easily. Theyre turning america into that shitty no dancing town in footloose. Vote better america.
Aww geez come on now! it’s a play….🤦🏻♀️ smh stop sheltering!
Parents acting like cry babies is inappropriate.
The next time this happens, theater kids need to hit up a big shot celebrity to fund using a local theater to have the play. Fuck the school board - I bet Tyler Perry would foot the bill for the whole thing and then some!
Let the kids do their things. Must be the helicopter parents complaining. Worst.
I went and had to remove my kids during the middle of the show. It was utterly shameful. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I had a long talk with my kids afterwards and they understood. Never again will I set foot in that high school. And I mean that.
It’s delightfully inappropriate! But there is only one song that I could imagine people would flip out over…and it’s the best one to belt out 😉
So sad.
NPR smells a new cash cow.? Fight, fight, fight...
Why is it “inappropriate”?
Christians just love spreading their puritanical bullshit all over everyone else.
Great job to these students and, since you’re at or near voting age, we’re counting on you to dump the JD Vance types.
No doubt these same adults took their kids to the gun range for giggles and to Hooters for sustenance
funny vulgar show
Adults are the worst.