Since Nels brought it up … there’s not much to report on “The Full Monty” front at this point. Apparently, the Town Manager has been super-busy trying to hire someone for some important town job. The plan is that after he is less “distracted” Libba, Steve and I will go chat with them about “The Full Monty” and what we would like to do on stage versus what that pesky town ordinance will allow. I (being the brilliant thinker that I am) have devised a way that the actors can strip and not show their “buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering.”
I suspect that one of the bigger battles involving “The Full Monty” won’t concern the stripping but will come when we hit the finale of Act One. “Michael Jordon’s Ball” features a dance sequence that lasts at least 65 measures. Steve will probably want to cut it down. I, of course, will want to keep it entact.
Anyhoo … more news as the story unfolds.
Ah, okay. I actually brought this up in my class yesterday. It’s a class in gender activism, and we’re talking about porn. I brought this up as an example of laws meant to restrict porn that end up restricting other things. And, no, I didn’t bring up names or specific places other than “a friend in North Carolina who works with a theatre.”
Gotta love a class that talks about porn!
One of the things that is so silly and frustrating about this whole thing is that (if presented as written) we wouldn’t be showing anything more that what can now be seen on prime time television. If you go back and watch the 2001 Tony Awards, the final number from the show was performed on national television, bare ass and all.
Go figure …
I agree about the Tony Awards on National TV….and on CBS none-the-less. Isn’t that the same station that freaked over Janet Jackson’s breast??? Yet, they showed 7 bare butts on an award show for the arts. Hmmmmmm?
Exactly …