To think this is innappropriate

[mimmum]

Saw the production of Oliver in the West End with the family. It was ok not really my thing but the rest of the family seemed to enjoy. But there were a couple of scenes that really made my skin crawl. A song about being hard and a man briefly rubbing himself on a woman who didn't seem happy about it, with the obvious innuendo. Also a scene with a couple where there was obviously simulated sex. Am I a prude, everyone else laughed but I felt uncomfortable especially as there were a lot of children there. Though thankfully it went right over my dc's heads.

Musicals suck, I am like the Dad in Monty Python's Holy Grail, "No no, none of that". Always fast forward if someone breaks into song.

Oliver isn't a nice story.

Yes I agree film version not comedy, the parts I have described were def meant to be funny.

It's not meant to make you laugh, though, mimmum, it's meant to be the actors acting like prostitutes and their clientele from victorian london ie. finding bawdy humour funny.

Don't let your kids watch Grease then if you don't want lyrics abut sex. (it's rated PG)

When dd2 was about 6 she was obsessed with grease (on video). All the inappropriate bits went over her head.

YANBU to feel uncomfortable, but that's not the same as finding it inappropriate, IYSWIM.

Oliver is scary, its about a group of children taken off the street and made to work for an old man stealing from people to fund an alcoholic thug who beats his prostitute girlfriend to death. Why on earth would you think it wouldnt have sexual references? im sorry but DURHHHHHH

I saw Oliver a few weeks ago and I know what you mean. The main difference between the film and this version of the show was that they did put in some smutty humour. I think they were trying to inject some comedy couples like the couple in Les Mis.

So yes, in some ways I agree with you, but it didn't really bother me. I was with my DS's and within the whole spectacle of the show they didn't notice this at all.

My 8 yr old DS loved the show and was scared by Bill and thought Nancy was lovely, but we talked about it and he does understand that bad people exist and that in 'the olden days' things were very different. The pub scene with the sex innuendo was in fact very funny and very well done but he didnt get it and just viewed it as grownups having a laugh in a pub. Personally I didnt like the way they made bigger characters out of Bumble and his housekeeper; their antics were a bit OTT and detracted from the story, but I suppose the actors wanted a bigger part

Griff was brilliant, really played to the audience, and made the show even more enjoyable for adults. I would say overall it was well-pitched, with lots for the kids and plenty for the adults that the kids wouldnt even question.

YANBU to have felt uncomfortable but BU to think it inappropriate.

Interesting that someone mentions Grease. My parents were very wary of letting me see it until I was some ridiculous age like 13, and even then they were like "I'm not sure it's appropriate". Result: the first time I saw it I was not really just innocently enjoying it, but avidly scanning every scene for these supposed suggestive and corrupting bits my folks were so worried about. Shame really.

My point being, if you worry too much about this stuff, you risk making your kids focus on the "inappropriate" content in a way that's totally disproportionate, and distorts the experience of watching a play or a film.

Having said that, I recall a drama professor of mine bringing her nine-year-old daughter to a student production of Marie and Bruce by Wallace Shawn, which is great but pretty chock-full of profanity; not sure I'd be quite that brave. It was definitely a heads-turning-along-the-aisles moment when they walked in.