Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis (Post 304011)

The pendulum swings. Back in 1980 when we did Woody Allen's "God," we had to change lines like "What if the message is 'Does the queen have the clap?'" to 'Does the queen have a social disease?' And so on. Another kid wanted to do a scene from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" but was not allowed to. A decade later, our drama teacher was receiving awards for student-written productions dealing with AIDS and other teen issues.

Apparently the pendulum has swung back.

Originally Posted by flippyshark (Post 304026)

I went to a concert put on by Disney cast members - (the group is called Encore, and they do some incredibly nice musical concerts) - and in this particular case, they did a medley from RENT. Disney cast activities demands that such events be family friendly, so it was with some amusement that I listened to their rendition of La Vie Boheme, and heard the memorable substitution of "Cinderellabration" in place of "mucho masturbation."

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 304029)

I'll never forget the anger I felt when my high school friends were censored in their performance of "Working". My friend's monologue, in which his character fantasizes about strangling his coworkers (who hasn't??) had whole sentences cut down to grunts and hand gestures. It was a short while past Columbine and any concept of violence was verboten.