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    Posted: 1/08/10 at 7:50pm
We're doing Life x 3 by Yasmina Reza which has some profanity.

I'm trying to figure out what warning if any to put on the poster and in publicity. 

For those of you who do material like this how do you usually handle it?  We're not doing all Arsenic and Old Lace but this is a little bit further out than most of what we've been doing recently.
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bullet Posted: 1/08/10 at 11:04pm
Our advertising - and tickets - always state: Adult Language and Situations (if applicable).
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bullet Posted: 1/09/10 at 12:34am
How prominently do you feature that?

The reason I ask is that I think I might have overdone it the last time I had this situation and perhaps hurt ticket sales.

Another local group just did All in the Timing and had a fairly extreme warning that seemed to dominate the poster and to me almost made the show seem a lot worse than what it really is.

On the other hand, of course, you don't want people coming and getting angry.
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bullet Posted: 1/09/10 at 7:39pm
No matter what you do there will always be the ones that will bitch abou it - so use it to your advatage, give them the number of the local news reporter.
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bullet Posted: 1/10/10 at 5:59pm
i like the way you think Gaafa, we recently didnt include any ": adult language" notice since it was veeery mild and no one complained, when we did declare it up front in the past, somebody left every night  i think . :(.. its theatre, grown up people swear occasionally.
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bullet Posted: 1/10/10 at 11:13pm
we don't feature it prominently - we just make it clear that we don't want to hear any garbage about it later

actually, the only time we've ever had people walk out of a play was a production of "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" - and there is NO cursing in it at all...though, LOL, the plot is rather steamy.
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bullet Posted: 1/11/10 at 12:53pm
We had a few people walk out on Cabaret. The director was gay and decided to play up that aspect a little more than some could tolerate.
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bullet Posted: 1/11/10 at 7:33pm
really?

had any of those people seen the movie? LOL I'm sure they didn't walk out on that, and it was far more gay fixated than the play is.
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