Following a record-setting surge in efforts to change curriculums and ban books at schools nationwide, the education culture war has now reached high school musicals.
forbidding drag shows could be interpreted as outlawing cross-dressing in school plays, said Jennifer Katona, executive director of the Educational Theatre Association.“That’s a hallmark of theater because the majority of theater programs have more female-identifying than male-identifying students, yet plays are written with majority male-identifying casts,” Katona said. “It’s a tough time for school theater.
In Pennsylvania’s Northern Lebanon School District this March, the school board voted down a proposed 2024 performance of the musical “The theme of “The Addams Family” is “darkness, grief and unspeakable sorrow,” board member Michael Marlowe said at a meeting before the vote. Marlowe, who did not respond to a request for comment, noted the musical has songs about killing, scenes of children smoking and references to torture and self-harm.
In Iowa’s South Tama County Community School District, senior Libby Albright was excited to perform in tragicomedy “” — until administrators scrapped the production this spring, three weeks into rehearsal. Theater director Dixie Forcht said Superintendent John Cain watched the film version of “August,” decided it was inappropriate and directed the South Tama County High School principal to shut down the play.the play was “beyond rated PG.
“The only productions I’ve ever been in have been fairy tale or comedy,” she said. “To grow as actors, we need to be challenged — to do things that really test us and make us think harder, that drive us to keep creating art.” ,” a gender-bending retelling of Robin Hood, when the Carroll High School principal gathered interested students and said the production could not go forward.
Alterations to Matchinga’s lines included replacing “and I’ve heard she is pro-choice/though still a virgin” with “but she will not make her choice/til she is certain.”
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