Post by willywonka666 on Jan 4, 2013 8:54:59 GMT -5
1 parent found it too "sexually suggestive"
The administrators at Herriman High School received permission from the copyright owners of "All Shook Up" to edit some of Presley's songs and make scene changes in the American jukebox musical that borrows from William Shakespeare.
"The show will go on," said Sandy Riesgraf, a spokeswoman for the Jordan School District. "Our biggest concern early on, we wanted to make some changes to keep the play within community values. It's a win-win for all of us."
Presley warbles about a sweetheart whose "lips are like a volcano that's hot" in his song from 1957. "I'm proud to say she's my buttercup. I'm in love. I'm all shook up."
His song lyrics together with a scene suggesting cross-dressing were deemed offensive by a person the school is refusing to identify.
Some think school administrators folded too easily at the start.
"I'm at a loss," Jill Fishback, whose daughter worked on the production, told The Salt Lake Tribune. "They're singing Elvis songs. A girl dresses up as a boy and kisses a boy. ... It's not promoting homosexuality. It was supposed to be a farce."
"All Shook Up" brings a modern twist to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," which portrays a female castaway who dresses as a boy to evade detection in ancient southern Europe, said Martine Green-Rogers, a theater fellow at the University of Utah.
"There's a misunderstanding about the plot of the play," Green-Rogers said. "It happens a lot in theater. Artists push boundaries."
The female castaway dresses as a boy as cover to wander about, but reveals herself as she falls in love with a young man. "By that time, the genders have been righted," Green-Rogers said. "The audience knows it's not a homosexual relationship."
Nonetheless, Herriman High School, about 20 miles from Salt Lake City, will make some scene changes to the musical version of the Shakespeare play that Riesgraf couldn't immediately specify on Thursday.
"We weren't asking for a lot. It will not change the intent of the play. They gave us their blessing," she said of the musical's producers.
The reversal came a day after administrators said they were scrubbing "All Shook Up." The production is back on for a run in February and March.
Sounds to me like they were more upset about the girl dressing like a boy and kissing a guy, but yea. The squeaky wheel gets the oil, but the squeaky wheel is usually a whiny bitch(or prick)
Who would have thought Elvis' music would still be causing a stir in that sense in 2013?
The administrators at Herriman High School received permission from the copyright owners of "All Shook Up" to edit some of Presley's songs and make scene changes in the American jukebox musical that borrows from William Shakespeare.
"The show will go on," said Sandy Riesgraf, a spokeswoman for the Jordan School District. "Our biggest concern early on, we wanted to make some changes to keep the play within community values. It's a win-win for all of us."
Presley warbles about a sweetheart whose "lips are like a volcano that's hot" in his song from 1957. "I'm proud to say she's my buttercup. I'm in love. I'm all shook up."
His song lyrics together with a scene suggesting cross-dressing were deemed offensive by a person the school is refusing to identify.
Some think school administrators folded too easily at the start.
"I'm at a loss," Jill Fishback, whose daughter worked on the production, told The Salt Lake Tribune. "They're singing Elvis songs. A girl dresses up as a boy and kisses a boy. ... It's not promoting homosexuality. It was supposed to be a farce."
"All Shook Up" brings a modern twist to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," which portrays a female castaway who dresses as a boy to evade detection in ancient southern Europe, said Martine Green-Rogers, a theater fellow at the University of Utah.
"There's a misunderstanding about the plot of the play," Green-Rogers said. "It happens a lot in theater. Artists push boundaries."
The female castaway dresses as a boy as cover to wander about, but reveals herself as she falls in love with a young man. "By that time, the genders have been righted," Green-Rogers said. "The audience knows it's not a homosexual relationship."
Nonetheless, Herriman High School, about 20 miles from Salt Lake City, will make some scene changes to the musical version of the Shakespeare play that Riesgraf couldn't immediately specify on Thursday.
"We weren't asking for a lot. It will not change the intent of the play. They gave us their blessing," she said of the musical's producers.
The reversal came a day after administrators said they were scrubbing "All Shook Up." The production is back on for a run in February and March.
Sounds to me like they were more upset about the girl dressing like a boy and kissing a guy, but yea. The squeaky wheel gets the oil, but the squeaky wheel is usually a whiny bitch(or prick)
Who would have thought Elvis' music would still be causing a stir in that sense in 2013?
