Godspell is a good show but I wonder if they'd be allowed to do that either singe religion is such a touchy subject. My aunt is a retired teacher and her school wasn't allowed to do Damn Yankees because of the "Damn".

I'd prefer to do a watered down version of Cabaret than Godspell.
Problem is....tryouts are next week for the show in March. Our director doesn't have time to look for & buy rights for a different show. And the ones she has done years before....she thinks are too big (physically) for the theater. The theater is not as deep as the hs auditorium. I'd prefer to be creative and make them fit!
Thanks for all your opinions. Isn't Godspell more an ensemble, with mostly singing & very little speaking parts? I think that doesn't fit the kids. Last year they did Thouroughly Modern Mille & the year before, Little Shop of Horrors. I like both of those so much better! They did Faust last fall....that was a real "WOW" show. My dear, I am rambling! Thanks again!

Schools are often bound by a lot of social, community, and political pressures to not do things that are either too raunchy or too religious. There's lots of people they have to work hard to please and avoiding either of these extremes seems to be an offense they choose to avoid. It's sort of an interesting debate because one of the tenets of theatre is for plays to depict aspects of "real life" on the stage--and, as we know, "real life" doesn't exclude any extremes. But as a conservative parent myself, the play that most thoroughly disturbed my soul ever was Cabaret. The Minneapolis Children's Theatre did a teen intensive production of this play the summer after Laura graduated from high school. They did such a phenomenal job of it that I truly could hardly watch Laura play the role she played and went home and wept afterwards. Was it great theatre? Oh my gosh---absolutely! But did the story line also deeply trouble me? To the core. I will choose never to see Cabaret again but should it (and other more difficult stories) never be told on a theatre stage? I can't go so far as to say that but in a parental capacity I certainly recommend talking through plays and their story lines with your children. It may sound really elementary but even Laura playing Sandy in Grease is a minor example. Sandy caves in to peer pressure thinking she has to become someone who compromises her values and principles to be accepted by the group. That is not a value that most parents would subscibe to and it's a great opportunity to discuss such things with your developing kids. I enjoyed the play Godspell even though not everything in it exactly represents my personal faith beliefs. It has a lot of music and youthful excitement--what's not to like, was my opinion.