CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, June 19, 2019

What Changes Did Your School Make to Shows So They'd Be Less Controversial?

Theatre Development Fund – TDF: Last fall, when I read that the principal of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts demanded that swastikas be scrapped from a student production of The Sound of Music, I was reminded of my own experience with school theatre censorship. At my high school, we put on a production of Working, a revue exploring blue-collar professions. I was supposed to play the prostitute, but the dean deemed that too risqué.

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