Posted on 03/25/2006 10:07:29 PM PST by rochester
(March 22, 2006) — Many Rochester-area high school students are, have been or soon will be involved in a springtime tradition — the musical........
Mendon is the first high school in the nation to stage Miss Saigon, said director David Brown. Performances began the weekend of March 17 and conclude this week with evening shows on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The show also provides musical, cultural and historical challenges for the cast of about 60 students........
I just attended a performance this evening of Miss Saigon at Pittsford-Mendon High School in the upscale community of Pittsford, New York (near Rochester). This could be a new trend in high school education. I couldn’t believe my eyes! You dirty old men out there are in for a treat!
On stage were dozens of very cute 14-17 year old girls acting out their roles as whore and sluts - dressed in wonderfully small hot pants and loose halters. Those familiar with this musical can imagine them strutting and dancing on stage like lap dancers and strippers - contorting and bending down prococatively, often with their rear ends facing the audience. It was just wonderful to see the sexual posturings of these (innocent?) young children.
No doubt, there were many proud fathers in the audience.
Just warning you – this is the first high school in the nation to perform this musical and it will likely spread like wildfire.
Was it mandatory you attend this performance?
Three words:
NOT
MY
DAUGHTER
Everyone else's can do what they please.
We did Guys and Dolls in high school, which involved some semi-burlesque dancing and glorifies gambling, until the end. ;)
I'll have to look up the script for Miss Saigon. It sounds like it could be inappropriate, but theatre students are used to doing edgy stuff (it's what wins in drama competitions, and by edgy, I don't mean "sexy" necessarily.)
I'm still waiting for my alma mater, Pope John Paul II, to have a performance of the Vagina Monolougues, followed by "Oh, Calcutta: The Mother Teresa you NEVER Knew!"
Home school, baby. Homeschool.
Along with Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity and even Oklahoma and Carousel have some very adult themes also. What about Chicago and Cabaret?
I’m not so worried about the students. If they are really interested in theater and acting as an art form, then they probably understand that is it characterization and role-playing to tell a story.
Miss Saigon is a very good musical and tells a very compelling and tragic story – so does Madame Butterfly, another adult story, to which Miss Saigon has often been compared.
The audience may not however; dirty old men or dirty young boys…but then that’s a problem with them, not the performers.
Revealing costumes and “grinding” could and probably should be toned down for the young players and their audience, but otherwise I don’t see a problem here. Do some of you expect high school theater majors be limited to enacting episodes of Barney, Telli Tubbies or Seasame Street? Personally I find these much more disturbing and subversive.
I have no problem with those of you who want to home school but personally, I think that serves better the child (or in the case of High Schoolers – young adults) who are more academically inclined and not the artistic, creative types like I was.
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