Originally posted by tristanrobin That's like saying you don't want to do Man of LaMancha because you don't agree with treating mentally ill people poorly...and you disapprove of prostitution.

Stupidity happens.  I think I've mentioned this before, but last year (Chicago Metropolitan Area) a local theatre group's production of "Sweet Charity" was successfully boycotted because it "condoned" prostitution.  Over the run of their play they had a total of 500 patrons, rather than the 5,000 they normally draw. -- What's really funny is that the following year they did "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum", a play rife with prostitute characters, and played to capacity crowds.

Go figure.

For pity's sake I HOPE they never try to do PURLIE!! That's an ALL BLACK cast with only 2 whites in the cast. AND it's set in an era where slavery was happening as well. BUT it was a Broadway play nonetheless with numerous nominations for awards including a Tony Award. And nobody ever had a problem when I've seen it done with the two token whites in the show. So what's their problem. AND it's a GREAT FUN show too originally written by Ossie Davis though he had little to do with making the musical other than it was based on his play Purlie Victorius - the shows lead character. I've been around and seen this done twice in my life and the first time in the late '70s. The ENTIRE cast were wonderful and none of them had any issues or problems with the content or the intent of the show. Maybe because it was written by an African American whereas Big River wasn't may account for some level of acceptance. I don't get it. Prejudice still exists - we all know that. Time to let actors who aren't afraid of putting it out there in people's faces, get it done to educate and ENRICH our understanding so tolerance might result and we can all get along better than we have. Gee, I just don't get some people's actions. Time to grow up for pity's sake.