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bullet Posted: 9/29/06 at 4:48pm

I have difficulty imagining a quality show that has gratuitous profanity in it.  I don't know whether you are speaking of actors not wanting to say "hells" or "damns" or the much more, shall we say, graphic words.  I think they should bear in mind the play and the character and his/her position in the play.  I would discourage dropping mild profanity.  And, I would make it clear at auditions about the language in the show and how I felt about it.  If an actor auditions and accepts a role, I feel he or she has an obligation to say the lines as the playwrite intended, even in community theatre.  Having said that, I am not rigid when it comes to scatological language and the mighty "F" word, since it is important to keep in mind community standards and also that, in community theatre, we often times do not have a large pool of actors to choose from when casting a show.

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bullet Posted: 10/06/06 at 12:32pm
Juror # 3, so true.. Help me remember that tonight when "Urinetown" comes up at playreading..
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bullet Posted: 10/06/06 at 11:09pm

As to the warnings in publicity, they should be to the point. "Salty language", "Strong Language", "sexual overtones", etc  tell what's going on. 

My wife was in a play that was "recommended for mature audiences". One of her friends didn't come and didn't bring her teenage daughter because she thought it would have sexual content. It didn't, but had very strong language, which wouldn't have bothered her.

And why do they say "recommended for mature audiences" when it's really the teenagers would get a bigger kick out of it than the old folks? 

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bullet Posted: 10/09/06 at 9:18am
You can't always win... Something is going to offend someone (or so it seems..)
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bullet Posted: 10/09/06 at 9:35am
"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste"

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bullet Posted: 10/10/06 at 5:03am
Originally posted by castMe

"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste"

Pablo Picasso

                                                                        


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bullet Posted: 10/10/06 at 5:26pm

Oh, castMe!!!! You are a man after my own heart!!!  Well, you and Picasso.

 

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bullet Posted: 10/10/06 at 8:54pm
If you liked the Picasso...............

"The actor is never ahead of his time...........he IS the time.  Everyone else is behind the times."


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Am having t-shirts made for both of them next week.  I usually tell my casts the Picasso quote and explain if the play doesn't offend someone, we're probably not doing it right.  I don't want to do lowest-common-denominator-white-bread-made-for-TV-type-crap.

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bullet Posted: 10/11/06 at 3:07pm

Juror #3, you getting all this....?

 

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bullet Posted: 10/12/06 at 11:17am
I want one of the Picasso quote shirts.
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