ORANGETOWN, N.Y. (CBS NewYork)– A high school version of “The Producers” will be missing something in its performance Friday evening. The swastikas have been cut from the satirical musical about Adolf Hitler.
If someone scrawled a swastika on a desk at Tappan Zee High School, it would be treated as a potential hate crime. That helps explain why the stage will be devoid of swastikas when high schoolers present the Mel Brooks’ musical this weekend.
“There is no context in a public high school where a swastika is appropriate,” South Orangetown Superintendent Bob Pritchard told CBS2’s Tony Aiello.
h/t Leonard.
Way back in the day, when I was in high school, we did a performance of Oklahoma and the school cut the song “I’m just a girl who can’t say no”.
Maybe schools never change, just the boogeyman does.
Well, there go all the history school books with Nazi-era pictures in them…
That leaves more stage time for the flamboyant homosexual Roger De Bris. Or maybe insert a segment on gender neutral bathrooms and #BLM.
Did they throw out the whole song too? How can you sing about springtime for Hitler with no swastikas? It’s not like you can have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat.
Various ‘isms’ that are very bad for your health, safety and money: Nazism, Socialism, Communism, Multi-Culturalism, Obamaism, old hag Hillaryism and old fart Sandersism!
So degrees Winston Smith at the Ministry of Truth. Soon enough it’ll be a Cross.
“There is no context in a public high school where a swastika is appropriate,”
OK … what about as ancient symbology?
“It is considered to be a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and dates back to before 2nd century B.C.”
(Wikipedia)
History? What History? Nothing ever happened until tomorrow
The school principal is a dunce. Satire is evil.
@Tim, we can’t have students learning actual history, or they might be able to grow up thinking for themselves.
These people do understand that Mel Brooks is Jewish, right? Or that the plot involves producing the most offensive and ridiculous musical Bialystock and Bloom could find in order to creat a flop? Or that the musical number “Springtime for Hitler” was written by Brooks?
This is another great example of pubic officials missing the point.
I’ll bet the school would tolerate the hammer and sickle.
The Drama Dept. shoulda said it was a riff on Trump…
Personally, were I the show’s producer or director, I would cancel performance entirely. And when the parents complain about all the hard work their little preciouses put into practicing and learning lines, etc, I would tell them the school administration (and a handful of their fellow parents) decreed the musical not a fit subject to be performed at the high school level.
Personally, I’m surprised it wasn’t cancelled simply for its depiction of flamboyant homosexuality during Act 1 Scene 7 “The Living Room of Renowned Theatrical Director Roger De Bris’ Elegant Upper East Side Townhouse on a Sunny Tuesday Afternoon in June”.
crescent and star, billy
What are these “nazis” you speak of?
Okay, so substitute the symbol for the Democrat Party. Problem solved. No need to thank me!