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...catchy rock tunes with whacked-out lyrics, but the most infamous is "The Button Song." Derrah (in another role as a crotchety general) screams obscenities at the audience in between verses of the marching song: "My jacket has three buttons, three buttons. My jacket has four buttons, four buttons. Fuck you, you lazy assholes!" and so on. He and his back-up singers won't stop the song until the audience throws something at them: water bottles, bananas, broccoli, chickens. Really...
Revising an established text is not always a good idea. For instance, no one in their right mind would change "To be or not to be" to "Dude! What the fuck?" in order to modernize Hamlet. But there are plenty of crazies out there (especially in theater). Ambitious writers who love to take on such dangerous tasks as rewriting Shakespeare, Jonson or Middleton are not rare...
...biggest laughs come from the bizarre anachronistic changes and crass one-liners. "Dorine, shut the fuck up!" is not really funny by itself. Injected into a 322-year-old text, it is hysterical. But it is also cheap. Auletta's changes are so self-conscious that Dorine, while discussing her mistress's illness and the use of leeches to cure it, comments to the audience how odd it is that they are making all these modern references and have no idea what modern medicine is. Why didn't Auletta just change Moliere's references to leeches, too? Because he wanted...
Seeing the ART's Tartuffe is definitely an enjoyable experience. The production is gorgeous and the acting is excellent. You will laugh a great deal, too. However, Rochaix should have used the original text. The words "shit" and "fuck" do not need to be in a play to make it funny. All one needs is good writing; Moliere provides that...
However, that was not the message broadcast at the recent financial aid really. The first speakers at the rally wore Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich marks, one of which read "Fuck Newt." Like-wise, many attendees shouted vulgar slogans such as "Dole Sucks...