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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s fine; high school musicals don’t all have to be sanitized.

[b]Grease is a mainstay in high school musicals. The most famous song (“Summer Nights”) has a lyric about whether or not Sandy “put up a fight” in the backseat. A side plot is about Rizzo thinking she might be pregnant. 
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Even Oklahoma isn’t all wine and roses. Curly sings a song to Jud in which he essentially suggests that Jud commits suicide. Ado Annie is “Just a Girl Who Cain’t say No.”

And on and on...[/quote]

Yes, yes, yes, I get it.  Obviously lots of plays are a little risque.  It's not like I expect them only to be performing Annie, but this is a play where the main story plot revolves around a woman who had sex with three men in two weeks, and there are jokes regarding oral sex. [/quote]

What if it were Chicago or another mob-based play instead of a musical? Would you object? I think your reaction is over the top about sex. If you are equally concerned about violence, for some reason, I would give you more of a pass than if you said violence is okay but sex isn't.[/quote]

Chicago is about sex.  It's about an affair cover-up and faking a pregnancy.  As well as murder.  It has a lot of raunchy Fosse pose dancing in the prison scene.  And there are some implied things too.

My kid's school put it on.  There is a watered down teen edition which is what the high schools use.

https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/62461/chicago-teen-edition

It is popular because it has two sexy and dramatic female leads.  Not my fave but the kids don't care.  TV is worse.

It is hard to find good shows that tilt more towards females.  These days there is increasing imbalance in the gender split of who wants to make time to do high school theater.

I assume Mamma Mia is popular because it has a mother and daughter lead role.  Our high school also recently did the Freaky Friday reboot musical with a mother-daughter bodyswap.[/quote]

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