Most offensive Broadway Musicals?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| A Chorus Line |
Anonymous
| West Side Story is incredibly violent. |
Anonymous
| Thanks, everyone! I'm here for the recs! Keep them coming! |
Anonymous
The show is nothing like the recent Spielberg movie. Rock to the face! The show / original movie was mainly in line with Romeo and Juliet (OK, also violent), and with a lot of dancing where there would be fighting in real life. |
Anonymous
| I forgot what is offensive about Carousel. |
Anonymous
Domestic abuse. |
Anonymous
| It’s good to be offended. That means the show stirred something in you. It’s called provocative art. |
Anonymous
|
Walked out of BOM at the Kennedy Center.
Did not enjoy how it stereotyped both Mormons and Africans. The sophomoric jokes about AIDS. The colonial tropes were so dumb. I love South Park, but BOM was just….offensively un-enjoyable. |
Anonymous
Spring Awakening is my answer. Rape, incest, suicide, abortion (not that abortion is offensive), sadomasochism, abuse, it was all too much. (I haven’t seen BoM, though) |
Anonymous
| I get how BOM is offensive, as part of its point is satire. But people are offended because a show merely depicts domestic violence or something? Sprung Awakening deals with tough subjects, but it doesn't mock them or present them as titillating or anything. |
Anonymous
| The King and I |
Anonymous
Quote from Carousel found on IMDB: Louise Bigelow : I didn't make it up, Mother. Honest, there was a strange man here, and he hit me hard. I heard the sound of it, Mother, but it didn't hurt. It didn't hurt at all. It was just as if he kissed my hand. Julie Jordan : Go into the house, Louise. Louise Bigelow : What's happened, Mother? Don't you believe me? Julie Jordan : I believe you. Louise Bigelow : Then why don't you tell me why you're actin' so funny? Julie Jordan : It's nothin', darlin'. Louise Bigelow : But is it possible, Mother, for someone to hit you hard like that - real loud and hard, and it not hurt you at all? Julie Jordan : It is possible dear, for someone to hit you, hit you hard, and it not hurt at all. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049055/characters/nm0429250 |
Anonymous
| The creators of BoM call it “a love letter to religion”. It’s about how religion has the power to give hope and be a force for good as long as we take it metaphorically and not literally. Even the Mormon church itself recommends people see it to bring them closer to God. I liked it a lot. But I guess the stereotypes of Africans can be offensive. |
Anonymous
It is almost reverential to Mormons compared to the awful stereotypes they perpetuate about the “generic backwards Africans” they depict. I was very offended by that part whne I saw it years ago when it first came out. A number of shows are full of outdated, what we’d call old-fashioned morals that don’t “work” today. Carousel, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kiss me Kate, Showboat, are all shows that would be challenging to perform now. I recently saw the new production of Camelot and they had Andrew Sorkin rewrite 99% of the book to make the plot more “acceptable” to 2023, but it didn’t really work. Gorgeous performances and staging, but it’s a tough show to do today, even with a “woke” book. |
Anonymous
| The Producers. Nothing funny about Hitler. |