"Grease" may be harmful to your career as a drama instructor

From the New York Times...

Student drama club puts on a bowdlerized production of "Grease." Despite the edits, the superintendent receives three - count 'em, three - angry letters, including one from someone who didn't see the production. End result? The spring production of The Crucible is replaced by A Midsummer Night's Dream, which of course contains no allusions to drug use, free love, bestiality....

And why exactly did The Crucible get, well, the axe? Not because of its message (it's still on the 11th-grade curriculum) but because the superintendent "[saw] this summary on the Web: '17th century Salem woman accuses an ex-lover's wife of witchery in an adaptation of the Arthur Miller play.'" (And, yes, that's IMDB's synopsis of the 1996 movie.) That's right, The Crucible was banned because of sex.

Oh, why even bother getting chagrined?

"Grease" may be harmful to your career as a drama instructor

From the New York Times...

Student drama club puts on a bowdlerized production of "Grease." Despite the edits, the superintendent receives three - count 'em, three - angry letters, including one from someone who didn't see the production. End result? The spring production of The Crucible is replaced by A Midsummer Night's Dream, which of course contains no allusions to drug use, free love, bestiality....

And why exactly did The Crucible get, well, the axe? Not because of its message (it's still on the 11th-grade curriculum) but because the superintendent "[saw] this summary on the Web: '17th century Salem woman accuses an ex-lover's wife of witchery in an adaptation of the Arthur Miller play.'" (And, yes, that's IMDB's synopsis of the 1996 movie.) That's right, The Crucible was banned because of sex.

Oh, why even bother getting chagrined?

Project Runway pix

Pictures from Project Runway's show at Olympus Fashion Week (No spoilers, since all four remaining designers actually get to participate, even if on TV they pretend it's only the three finalists. Unless you consider getting to see two of each designer's outfits a spoiler.)

Project Runway pix

Pictures from Project Runway's show at Olympus Fashion Week (No spoilers, since all four remaining designers actually get to participate, even if on TV they pretend it's only the three finalists. Unless you consider getting to see two of each designer's outfits a spoiler.)