Hey here’s an idea. How about you don’t change the name of a classic work, but hire an actual disabled actor to play the role? Wouldn’t that be kind of great?
No?
WELL YOU’RE THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Other shows in the Oddsocks 2013 Theatre Season:
• One Flew Over the Psychiatric Hospital
• Children of as Good a God as Yours
• Girl, Resumed
• See Some Evil, Depending on the Light and Where You’re Standing
• My Left Foot, Unless You Don’t Have a Left Foot, In Which Case I Mean Either Foot, or None
“It Is Perfectly Acceptable for Persons Identifying as Male to Show Emotion”
Hey yeah and then when they present The Time Machine instead of presenting the Morlocks as monsters we can have one of them come out and explain that they have a pigment deficiency and an aversion to sunlight and that their culture enjoys a different cuisine, which although we may not understand it, we should respect it!
Peter Pan’s adversary shall be known as “Captain Hand” .
I’ve got hands and am deeply offended!
Just watched “Pachyderm Man” last night. The end always makes me cry.
I can’t wait to see their production of “Snow Caucasian and the Seven Vertically-Challenged Miners”
“Challenged?” Check your privilege.
Thank you. That kind of casual ableism is just revolting.
How about “miners of abbreviated measurement”?
On a side note, as person of abbreviated measurement myself, I’m pretty glad that I was built close to the ground on account of I’m afraid of heights.
It’s time to ignore the PC theater. I’m going out to make a person of snow.
“Escape from Persecuted Woman Who Is In Tune With The Powers Of The Earth And Her Femininity Mountain”
“One does not simply scooter into Mordor…”
Don’t forget the classics: “To Photograph a Mockingbird”, “A Streetcar Named Mutually Consensual Attraction”, “Elder Yellow” and of course “12 Angry Male and Female Citizens”.
And “Two Mule Cocks for Sister Sarah”.
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Oh Come On Now! Hidden due to low rating? It’s April Winchell for Chrissakes. There are no standards here. If you want class, go to marthstewart.com or something….
Enough? Not without Stan Freberg and Daws Butler performing “Elderly Man River”.
I didn’t realize “hunchback” was a disability, scoliosis sure, but people don’t have “hunchback” as a disability, that would just be insensitive terminology. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it “The man who had a physical disability that gave him the look of having a curved spine, possibly due to scoliosis or some other debilitating condition, of Notre Dame.” Wasn’t he also kinda fugly even if you excused the hunchback? Maybe they should revamp that part too. The funniest part is how the article goes on about this and then still refers to Quasimodo as “hunchbacked”. Didn’t you learn anything from writing this article ‘Arts Report’?
The Good, the Otherwise Good and the Differently Good To Look At
Namaste, female-gendered canines.
Are they actually going to do the Victor Hugo version or the Disney version? Because ISTR in the Victor Hugo version, Esmirelda is “compromised” by the priest (and a few other people as well), and burned at the stake? And I don’t think Quasimodo ends well either. It’s rather been a while since I’ve read the book, but it’s more the basis for Phantom of the Opera than any story about “everyone’s equal”
No in the book he doesn’t fare so well, HoND is one of my favorite books. Although I would have loved to see the Disney play for it that they did in Germany where it first premiered. The stage had so many unique requirements that Disney actually built a theatre just for this play. The stage was capable of raising and lowering so that the impression of heights were to be made more dramatic. From what I heard of it they de-disnefied it a little in the play version- it still has that typical Disney ending but it is much darker and plays more homage to the book than the movie did. I remember being miffed by Phantom when I first saw it because of what you said. I guess I like Quasimodo much more than the phantom.
I wonder will they be playing “Tiny Store of Uncomfortable and Disturbing Events” or maybe “The Making Cooperative of a Disagreeable Woman”?
Are they also going to perform the musical “A New York-Based Baseball Team Is Cursed By Someone’s Deity” featuring the song “Joseph is from Hannibal Missouri and Has No Shoes”
I think you mean, “Joseph is from Hannibal, Missouri and Has No Shoes, but is No Better or Worse Than Someone with Shoes”
My favorite song from that show is “A Functioning Circulatory System Is Required.”
In a somewhat related story, my friend and I were at the theater, and before the show started she was telling some story that involved her imitating a dolphin, flopping her hands around at her shoulders like they were flippers, and saying “Flipper! Flipper!” Then we realized the guy sitting right next to her had flippers instead of arms. So even if the spinally-challenged person makes it into the theater unscathed the humiliation might not be over, at least if my friend and I are there.
Couldn’t they have just called it “Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo”? The original French title is completely free of deformities and disabilities.
Of course, people might think it’s a perfume.
I object to the possession of women no matter where!
Yeah, what make’s us so sure she’s Our Lady?
This reminds me of this clip from The Daily Show:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-19-2013/how-i-meteored-your-motherland
I feel like Russia is a terrifying, yet magical place. Like Wonderland or Tumblr.
Whoops… clearly meant to post this on the above post about Russia…
I know replying to rhetorical questions is daft, but here goes anyway.
“How about you don’t change the name of a classic work, but hire an actual disabled actor to play the role?”
Because they don’t hire new actors. They’re a comedy troupe of three actors, and one stuffed dummy, who do costume changes and silly voices to cover all the parts. I saw them a few times a kid. I still remember sitting in the ruins of Portchester castle to see Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and getting warned that “if you’re in the front two row, you will get wet!” We did.
I’m jonesing for some more AW goodness… I’m so glad your old stuff is back up.