I talked with Steve the other day and still no word on a meeting with the Town Higher-Ups. We chatted about things and he doesn’t really want to have the meeting (no surprise there) and I can sorta understand that. Steve thinks we just need to assure the Town that we will not break any laws when we do the show. Which is kinda bad since the script calls for us to break the law. We chatted about ways to “skirt” the ordinance … none of which I like at all. But that conversation got me to thinking. And I have come up with some ways that we can do the stripping, still show as much as ordinance allows and not cheat the audience out of getting some skin at the end of the show. That’s been my argument with Steve the entire time … taking the audience up to the strip act at the end of the show and then cheating it to the point where the audience feels like we didn’t have the balls (pun intended) to do it right. So, I’ll talk to him in the few days and make my suggestions as to how to do things and see what he says. Hopefully my ideas will fly.
Just happened to look at your post on “The Full Monty.” I was on an Atlantis cruise in January and the performers did the strip scene. There were silver(mylar, I guess) strips behind them, and they got down to the boxers. Then, when they ripped their boxers off – the simultaneously jumped behind the mylar strips/curtain. It was cheesy, funny, and the crowd booed… not sure if this is of any possible help to you whatsoever! (but it came to my mind…)
I think I have an argument that could help matters. I was watching new episodes of SCRUBS on TV recently, and one scene had a guy in a thong prancing around. then he ended up getting an atomic wedgy off the side of the building, that left little to the imagination with the front of the thong stretched quite tightly around certain parts.
It got me to thinking. This is network TV. Not cable. This is public airwaves that anyone in Waynesville can tune in to see at 9 PM on a Tuesday night. Just like NYPD Blue was. And it is OK.
Fact: That is on public airwaves for virtually everyone in Waynesville to see whether they intend to or not.
FULL MONTY at HART is a private show that only select members of the public who chose to see it knowing full well what they will be seeing are admitted.
And much like the local movie house showing an R rated movie, HART will not let minors see the show, and will handle matters JUST like the movie theater would.
If the town really wants to enforce these matters, they would block out several TV shows on the public airwaves, and they would forbid the movie theatre from showing American Pie, and other such movies. Also, how about all the video rental stores that rent these movies? How about the purchase of American Pie at Wal-Mart for under $10?
Is the town prepared to enforce this law on ALL angles?
Commenting on the Public Television comment, and adding to it. When the TONY awards were broadcast in 2001, and THE FULL MONTY was up for an award as best musical…CBS showed the awards on National Television. They did not shy away from the bare butts in g-strings, and in fact relished in it on camera. So…yet another example of not being able to censor what the public watches…but, yet HART could regulate it.