Re: [LS] Bp Howe cancels La Cage aux Folles

[Louie Crew <lcrew@ANDROMEDA.RUTGERS.EDU>]

Re:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-play0107sep01,0,2210448.story?coll=orl-lifestyle-col 

I taught for three years in one of the finest Episcopal schools (St.
Andrew's in Middletown, Delaware, 1962-65), and it would never have occurred
to anyone on the faculty to clear any curricular or theatrical decisions
with the bishop (then Rt. Rev. Brooke Mosley, later president of Union in
NYC); nor would the bishop have understood why the school would hire anyone
who was so insecure as to seek his approval for intellectual decisions we
were hired to make.

Is Bloom right?  Has the American mind been shut tight?  Even in independent
schools?

Louie

Louie Crew, 377 S. Harrison St., 12d, East Orange, NJ 07018.  973-395-1068
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew


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Certainly whoever picked La Cage for an Episcopal high school production in
the Diocese of Central Florida must have known it would be waving a red flag
in front of the Episcopal bull (of which there is much in that diocese.

That the bishop found out rather by accident indicates there were either
stealth tactics or a don't ask, don't tell policy assumed by the school.

I suspect the kids got used then caught in a crossfire between adults.
That's regretable but as much the fault of the school as the bishop.

They could have done Murder in the Cathedral or even Jesus Christ Superstar.
Well, maybe not Superstar.

I don't agree with Howe's boundaries and I love La Cage in all its
variations but I don't think kids should be used to do the dirty work of
adults nor the episcopacy disrespected.

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