Bawdy play deemed unsuitable for Republican visitors

[Nambe]

NEW YORK (AP)

.. The city's tourist bureau has pulled an off-Broadway show called ``Naked Boys Singing'' from a list of discounted offerings to visiting delegates, after the Republican National Committee complained it wasn't suitable.

The gay-themed show, billed as a musical revue that ``celebrates the splendors of male nudity in comedy, song and dance,'' has received generally good reviews and hasn't created much of a stir since it began its run six years ago. Its 2,127 performances make it the 10th longest-running off-Broadway show. ..

The show's producer, Carl White, said the RNC's decision to drop the show runs counter to the reasons Republicans chose New York to host the convention in the first place.

``It's very disappointing to us,'' said White. ``They say they picked us because of our equality, our diversity, our culture.''

In fact, before the show was removed from the site, about a dozen people presumably delegates had purchased tickets using the special code offered on the Web site. Those tickets will be honored. ..

[jdj]

1. nah. the real reason is that the actors couldn't be in both places

at once.

[Warpy]

2. Runs counter to the reasons they chose New York??????

It sounds like they should have used Disney World for a week. The fact that they can't deal with anything that isn't beyond the pious level of community theater and bible tent revivals says a lot about those folks.

Good gawd, who are these people? Do they wear signs in real life? Can I manage to avoid them?

[TheDonkey]

5. But even Disney World has "Gay Days!" eek, think of the morals!!!

:puke: Republicans are out of the mainstream.

[whistle]

7. Uhmmmm, no Disney World does not fit in with the neo-con....

...idea of family values. After all, it is a well known fact that every year Disney World has alternating Gay-Days at all four of their Orlando Theme Parks. Still, for the other 361 days, republicans have the run of the place, but it just isn't right. You know!

[MisterP]

20. the reason, of course is the memory of charred, stacked corpses

the Convention of Corpses will begin on Monday! I can't wait to see the Chimp-in-a-Bubble primate exhibit!

[whistle]

3. What, you mean even log-cabin republicans should not go to see...

..."Naked Boys Singing". In the picture they all look like young republicans who attend Bob Jones University.

[dave123williams]

4. or...

Nah, they look more like GOP congressional staffers to me.

[Journeyman]

6. Typical Republican response. . .

Can't let the individual make decisions for himself, so the decision must be made for him, proving yet again (as if further proof is necessary) that the Republican Party's vaunted celebration of individual responsibility is nothing but a hypocritical crock.

[liontamer]

8. did they really believe

that anybody who would be "offended" by naked boys singing would go see a play entitled "naked boys singing"?:wtf:

[starroute]

9. You don't understand the depths of the Republican mindset

Their nature is to be offended by *other* people going to see a play titled naked boys singing.

That's how Republicans think. They don't want *anybody* to have any fun.

[gratuitous]

10. Well, it's not like none of the delegates are going to go

They just won't get discounted tickets. You damn betcha the place will be packed. But you won't be able to recognize any of the patrons streaming out afterwards, because they'll be holding their delegate badges up in front of their faces.

[karlrschneider]

11. Some young enterprising GOPer can make a bundle selling

Groucho glasses & fake moustaches...
:evilgrin:

[David Zephyr]

12. It's A Great Show. We Loved It.

n/t

[LauraK]

18. It says it's the rage for bachellorette parties.

It must be good.

[Hobarticus]

13. Three words that sealed their fate: equality, diversity, culture...

Does '700 Club' have a live show?

[Nimrod]

14. Doesn't surprise me

The RNC does NOT want pictures of any delegates attending a gay-themed show in the middle of their anti-homosexual hoopla.

[nonbelief]

15. I'm disgusted

The most appropriate stage show for republican supporters of George W. Bush to see is the great Australian "Puppetry of the Penis", now showing in Chicago.

[truthisfreedom]

16. i say charge 'em full price.

they deserve it.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Why, Why, Why are they coming here?

Haven't they heard?

We're all a bunch of "left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers" (as Woody Allen put it in Annie Hall)

[MisterP]

21. because the Handsome Monkey King wants to celebrate the anniversary

of the second-biggest tragedy of his "Presidency"--which he was responsible for, directly or indirectly.

[leesa]

19. Not enough blood and guts for them?

[drdtroit]

22. The only naked men they want to see

are the ones whose clothes get blown off of them right before the shrapnel of the "smart bomb" obliterates them.

Now thats good Christian Family Values.