Bullets Setting A Standard?
Bullets Setting A Standard?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#1Bullets Setting A Standard?
Posted: 4/17/14 at 5:35pm
I find it interesting that Bullets Over Broadway is tailoring their performances for school groups.
Do you think this might set a trend? An a la carte theater going experience?
If Southern tourists want their Les Miz without the "raise it up the Master's ass" will they get it?
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#2Bullets Setting A Standard?
Posted: 4/17/14 at 5:44pm
I can see it becoming a trend if it will bring in $$.
But it seems like a step producers would take only if ticket sales are weak.
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#2Bullets Setting A Standard?
Posted: 4/17/14 at 5:46pm
If Southern tourists want their Les Miz without the "raise it up the Master's ass" will they get it?
They've dealt with it for 25+ years; this is different.
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#3Bullets Setting A Standard?
Posted: 4/17/14 at 6:16pmThey aren't the first show to make adjustments. Dracula cut the nudity for matinee performances, for instance.
Mr Roxy
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dramamama611
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#5Bullets Setting A Standard?
Posted: 4/17/14 at 6:21pm
I doubt that anyone "asked" for this. It was a decision they made...probably because they noticed their group ticket sales were lacking on that day.
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#6Bullets Setting A Standard?
Posted: 4/17/14 at 6:49pm
I really like the idea of cutting the f-word from Wednesday matinees, which are prime school field trip performances. Coincidentally, I recently posted on the difficulties of playing "What the F***?" (from WHAT/IF) on the radio or singing it on TV, such as on the Tony award show.
This issue is similar to the one that middle and high schools deal with when books use inappropriate words. A parent wanted to ban "Huck Finn" at a local high school -- I don't recall if that person succeeded -- because of Samuel Clemens's use of the n-word. Apparently, the objection came about because kids were taking it as carte blanche to use the word around school.
I can understand the parent's concern, but I think there are far superior ways to handle the problem. One possibility I thought of would be for publishers to replace the word with "n***," with a footnote explaining the reason. I see "Bullets over Broadway's" decision to be a Solomonic compromise between keeping kids from seeing the production and letting them think it's ok to drop the f-bomb.
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Mr Roxy
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#7Bullets Setting A Standard?
Posted: 4/17/14 at 10:02pm
There is so much more in this show that could be offensive other than the F word.
Do not really think if the producers think the F word would offend a group that this musical is the show for them to begin with.
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