Project 3: Too Hot to Handle Part 2

Raided or Closed-
Pleasure Man
March 1930


"A hung jury caused the judge to dismiss obscenity charges against Mae West's Pleasure Man."
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/bway101/5.html

This article covers a few different theatres that were closed during the depression period. This article also covers the closing of Mae West's Pleasure Man and the trial that thus followed. This article discusses the closing of theatres due to the motion picture business as well.


Arrested-
Alton Fitzgerald White
as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Ragtime
Sun. July 18th, 1999

"A day after Alton Fitzgerald White was arrested, strip-searched and then released when the police acknowledged they had erred, the actor, who plays a leading role in the Broadway musical ''Ragtime,'' said it seemed as if life had imitated art."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E3DD103FF93BA25754C0A96F958260&sec=&spon


This article covers the racial profiling of a man playing Coalhouse Walker Jr. in a production of Ragtime. The irony in this is Ragtime is a play about racial profiling in the turn of the century. There are many quotes from Mr. White directly.



NEA4-

Karren Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller

"They filed suit, alleging, among other things, that a provision of the NEA's governing statute identifying the standard for approval of funding applications violated the Fifth and First Amendments because it was impermissibly vague and imposed content-based restrictions on protected speech."
http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F3/100/671/475772/

This is a complete case study of the suite file by Karren Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller. It stated that the NEA was violating the first and fifth amendment rights of the four. It was basically an attack on the censorship of material.



Highschool Theatre
Rent
Rowlett High School
Dallas, TX

""If everyone on Earth were homosexual, there would be no more life. Just death," April Huddleston, a resident of Rowlett, said at the meeting."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/rockwallrowlett/stories/DN-rent_06met.ART.State.Edition1.4a779e4.html

This article covers the controversy over the production of the popular 90's broadway hit Rent. In this article we can conclude that there was a very negative reaction from the public when it was announced. Many were worried about the content matter in reference to the age group.