Project #3 - Too Hot To Handle!

1. NYC Today Broadway


2. Naked Broadway

Gay Broadway
Play: Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally
Where: Manhattan Theatre Club
When: 1998

The Catholic Church and other supporters are not very pleased with Terrence McNally's script Corpus Christi, nor are they happy with the fact that Manhattan Theatre Club is producing it. Protestors are upset with the fact that Jesus and his apostles are written as gay men. Receiving multiple threats to kill actors and burn the building down, the theatre decided it would be safest to install metal detectors in the theatre to insure the safety of the people inside the building.

"Even now, before passing through the metal detectors installed to protect Manhattan Theatre Club, audience members have to step around gay-haters on the sidewalk holding signs saying things like “Terrence McNally Sodomizes Jesus -- And Your Mother Is Next.”
http://www.donshewey.com/theater_reviews/corpus_christi.htm


4. Racist Broadway

5. Raided or Closed a show

6. Arrested an actor or director arrested before, during, or after a performance

7. NEA 4 Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, John Fleck, and Karen Finley

8. Regional Theatre non-profit professional theatre, preferably a LORT theatre that created
controversy, protests, firings, grant problems, etc.

9. College/University a college or university production that created controversy, protests, firings, grant problems, etc.

High School
Play: Country Gothic by Tim Kelly
Where: Warsaw High School
When: Jan, 2009

A group of parents and teachersare upset with Jill Robertson's decision to produce Country Gothic. Due to the fact that a man is lured into town thinking he is going to marry a girl when he is truly going to be sacrificed in an annual town ritual, Country Gothic was posponed because it did not uphold the Christian values of the town.

"‘Country Gothic' delayed after criticism flared up in November""
http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/school_14158___article.html/controversial_warsaw.html