wow, talk about not knowing your environment. What a dolt.

I'm sure Kevin Spacey could work something into his calendar.

He should call the Dixie Chicks and figure out how they weathered the storm.

Joe Mantegna, reprising his Tony™-Award-winning role of Ricky Roma, will again take the production's only Tony, this time for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, largely on the strength of his knock-em-dead rendition of the show's stirring theme, "Always Be Closing."

"Eckern, leaving the divorce court, turned to his former same-sex spouse and hissed, 'If I can't have you, no one is getting same-sex married in this state any more.' Eckern and his partner, Ted Haggard, formerly of Colorado, had been married last year in what the BTP ('best transgendered person') called a 'meth-n-massage-induced haze'."

Matt Groening could have a field day with this one.

www.jibjab.com/.../130044

... to which one can only say:

www.youtube.com/watch

California Musical Theater has just announced its 2010 schedule:

West Side Stigma

The Sodomite of the Opera

Hello, Bigot!

Sinner on the Roof

Jesus Christ Of The Latter-Day Superstars

Little Bath House of Horrors

Hellzawaitin

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Closet

The 25th Annual Putnam County Discrimination Fest

Leviticus!

yard -- heh heh -- "discrimination fest" -- hilarious

One of the odd recent innovations in musical theater has been employed in some recent Sondheim productions; Sweeney Todd, for example, features actors both singing and playing instruments, in lieu of an orchestra.

At California Musical Theater in the future, each of the three actors on stage will play at least four roles and three instruments, plus moving scenery on and off and sewing their own costumes.  They will also take turns distributing programs at the door, when they aren't printing them.

Or contrariwise (picking up on themes found in other threads), CMT could get a boost from a swarm of new applications from Victoria Jackson and from a number of theater grads from various Evangelical colleges across the US, rejoicing that they've finally found a "safe" theater...

Ugly never sleeps, folks.

Yes, freedom of speech and political opinion or support is so much alive in America that the newly empowered Left has forced this man to resign.

We see, once again, that the impulse of the Left is always towards totalitarianism.  It is a portent of much worse to come under Barack Obama, hints of which emerged frequently during his campaign.

Liberals have been duped as they are historically over and over again.  Obama will bury you.

Chan: we force them to resign, the Republicans attach their genitals to car batteries.  I'd take the Liberal sort of "totalitarianism" to Republican Freedom Waterboards.

By the way, that's a pathetic post to a funny piece, even by your standards.

"Obama will bury you."

What does this mean?  You'll just write any sort of crap - "totalitarianism", "socialism", whatever, that comes to your mind, don't you?  I mean, your post makes no sense at all.

Remember: "Freedom of speech" does not equal "freedom from criticism".   Thank God we don't live in Palinland, which is where you get your ideas of freedom from.

Chan approaches Palinesque heights of misunderstanding regarding freedom of speech.  Yes, this fellow can say and do what he wants.  And, yes, others can pillory him for it.  Free market of ideas, my friend.  The Constitution does not mandate respect for the speech of others, and protects expressions of strong disapproval every bit as much as it protects the original expression.

Little early in the day to be sniffing glue, isn't it Chan? You should wait until the sun goes down so that if you end up on your front yard naked, howling and masterbating, you're less likely to be seen.

'Tis odd how some folks think "free speech" means "speech without consequences."  This cat wasn"t going to keep his job any more than an RNC chair who, hypothetically, started espousing abortion rights and support for stem cell research.

I was under the impression when I posted that the California Musical Theater was a state of CA institution.  Turns our it is only a non profit one.

But if you think what I wrote is risible, read what the Theater management posted:

"The Board of Directors of the California Musical Theatre has received notice from Executive Producer Richard Lewis of the resignation of Artistic Director Scott Eckern...At no time does it [the California Musical Theater] involve itself in politcial issues or ever impinge on the rights of its employees to engage in political activities of their choice."

Oh, I see, they don't impinge on their employees' rights.  They just fire them for having a politically correct opinion.

In America, gentlemen, we don't fire people for their political opinions.

At least traditional Americans don't.

But, now that enemy aliens have occupied Washington, the ethos is such that a political firing of this sort is acceptable to many of the supposedly respectable thinkers here.

Recall that most revolutions kill their acolytes.