Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
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#1Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 4:14pm
Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
'Lucy The Slut's' Pink Cleavage Not Appropriate
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/22645355/detail.html
A Colorado Springs billboard company has rejected an ad for a touring show because it shows a puppet's cleavage.
The puppet's name is Lucy the Slut. She's a pink Sesame Street-like puppet in the touring Broadway show Avenue Q. "Avenue Q" is a Tony-winning musical about twenty-something New Yorkers, both human and puppets, searching for life and love. The show addresses issues like sex, drinking, and surfing the Web for porn.
Lamar Advertising rejected the ad for bus shelters, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper. "We were in the process of putting it on the presses when one of the top execs saw it and said, "I don't think it's appropriate for the Colorado Springs market," according to Kristy Maple, marketing director for New Space Entertainment.
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Updated On: 2/23/10 at 04:14 PM
#2Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 4:25pmIt's Colorado Springs. This isn't surprising.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#2Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 4:38pmI'm not usually one for gratuitious sex or violence in any art form but sometimes it's appropriate for the piece. In this case I think it is, which makes oen think, do they even know anythign about this show that they've booked? and for crying out loud, they're felt boobs. I'm pretty sure I can easily find more graphic ads with real people that probably didn't get a second look.
#3Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 4:46pmIf you didn't know the show beforehand you would have no idea those were even boobs.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#4Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 5:03pmWhy does this make me laugh so hard?
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 6:06pm
The world is now safe from puppet cleavage
Thank God they came to their senses & stopped it before it took over the world.
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#6Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 7:20pmAnd lead us not into temptation but deliver us from puppet titties!
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#7Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 7:23pm
Furry Cleavage
*shudders*
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#8Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/23/10 at 7:26pm
Ashley Eileen Bucknam's (Ensemble & U/S) response:
"WOOT! We're making headlines!! It's funny the things people worry about now a days... Looks like we're probably going to be getting a curious audience in Colorado Springs though:)"
#10Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/25/10 at 11:15pm
This from Jeff Whitty's Facebook (Tony Award-winner for Best Book):
Thank you, Colorado Springs, for banning Lucy the Slut's puppet cleavage from your bus shelters. The Avenue Q tour has never had so much PR! Lucy is the fourth Google hit for "Colorado Springs"!
#11Ad Rejected Over Puppet Cleavage
Posted: 2/25/10 at 11:24pm
From Lisa Helmi Johanson's (Christmas Eve) Facebook:
This is just funny. Here we come, ready or not! ; )
Updated On: 2/25/10 at 11:24 PM
