Here I am, a robot with the brain the size of a planet....
-- Marvin
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Originally Posted by LightWaves1636
I tried pitching Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella to our theatre dept but we just don't have the money for the copyright.
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My friends told the story of how
Godspell was offered to their high school
free way back when when it first came out. The composer Stephen Schwartz was an alumni of the school and wanted to offer it for a student production as a gift or something. The school turned it down because it was a little too religious, or too unknown, or something, and at the time it was a small-time off-Broadway production. (Please forgive me, after many years the story is very hazy.) A couple of years later after being more established (and I'm sure at the insistance of the musical committee and every kid in production screaming how stupid they were) the school asked him if they could do it. He turned them down.
The world of the stage is a fickle and cruel place indeed.