PUT DOWN THOSE STAGE PROP GUNS! Because you know if you want to avert campus shooting sprees, you want to start with the hard-working theater kids who rehearsed their hearts out to put on a big show. Yes, the show is about presidential assassins, but it's Sondheim. It's high class. The bright side of this is: Because it's high-class musical theater that's getting censored, even the usual prissy anti-gun types should get pissed off.
Via Nick Gillespie, who hates the musical "Assassins" ("godawful in its original conception and execution back in 1990 (and naturally, retardedly well-received in its 2004 Broadway revival)"). I've never seen the show, but I loved Sarah Vowell's description of it in her cool book "Assassination Vacation":"It's the Stephen Sondheim musical in which a bunch of presidential assassins and would-be assassins sing songs about how much better their lives would be if they could gun down a president."
"Oh," remarks Mr. Connecticut. "How was it?"
"Oh my god," I gush. "Even though the actors were mostly college kids, I thought it was great! The orange-haired guy who played the man who wanted to fly a plane into Nixon was hilarious. And I found myself strangely smitten with John Wilkes Booth; every time he looked in my direction I could feel myself blush." Apparently, talking about going to the Museum of Television and Radio is "too personal," but I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.
February 22, 2008
Prop guns don't kill people. Theater kids pretend to kill people.
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Booth probably sends a thrill up Chris Matthews leg too.
If you see a gun onstage in the first act (or scene), you will see it again at the climax of the play....
The reference to the man who wanted to fly a plane into Nixon, I think refers to a hijacker who threatened to crash a commercial jet into the uranium diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, TN...
They'll pry my prop gun out of my cold, dead prop hands.
Administrators do idiotic things. It's a little odd that faculty -- in my experience somewhat outspoken -- aren't commenting.
What’s with all the hubbub?
I mean, it’s not like they’re staging Ionesco’s “La Leçon,” or anything.
Does the guy get to keep his plane?
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Hopefully no campus mass murderer will use poison, or half of Shakespeare will have to go.
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Not just "Heh", but "THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, the arts would be censored. And they were right!"
"It's just one man's opinion, of course, but I dare anyone to listen to, say, the Leon Czolgosz number without wanting to put a bullet in his own head and then exhume the corpse of the Michigan-born killer and re-electrify it."
C'mon, Nick Gillespie, tell us what you really think. ;)
The history of the world my sweet is who gets eaten and who gets to eat...
Wait, what? Wrong one?
Never mind.
Also, Johnny Depp's on line 2: He wants to play Boothe.
If you see a gun onstage in the first act (or scene), you will see it again at the climax of the play....
But if you saw a gun in half before the play starts, all you can do is point and say "bang."
Just goes to show that school administrators are nuts!
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