IP SIG: Here we go again - censoring casting

[amalyah keshet]

Recently, I posted a story about rights holders forbidding a high school production of "Huckleberry Finn"  in which Huck was to be played by a black student and Jim by a white student.

Here we go again:

Prof. Michael Madison brings our attention to a case in which a stage production of Grease was halted by the rights organization because the female cast was going to play female students in an all-girls school putting on a performance of Grease. Got that? Theatre Follies. So, instead, they will be performing Grease and Desist,

the "gleefully, bad ass, unauthorized, '50's rock musical cabaret" that claims "If the creators of South Park and Charles Ludlum had met late one evening in a dark, smokey bar, done shots of jagermeister and danced -- THIS IS THE LOVE CHILD THEY WOULD HAVE HAD."

http://madisonian.net/archives/2005/06/09/theater-follies/

http://www.corante.com/copyfight/

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel +972-2-670-8874
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