To: vocalist
Subject: Re: HUMOR: Christmas Songs for the Psychiatrically Challenged
Date sent: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:49:22 PST
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Well, THIS "psychiatrically challenged" person thought it was hilarious!

It's OK. When I first saw Alan Ayckborn's play "Bedroom Farce," I felt a
little uncomfortable laughing at a character who was suffering with MAJOR
back problems. Then I found out that the people who were laughing the
hardest were the "dorsally challenged," including our college's design
prof-- who was laughing so hard he nearly threw his *own* back out.

Sorry, I'm feeling a little impatient with the easily offended. The Bay
Shore "Hansel and Gretel" company was in an uproar yesterday over a
complaint over the advocacy of "domestic violence" (i.e. Mother losing her
temper with those two naughty kids) and "alcoholism" (Father comes home a
bit tipsy, and we drink a toast to his broom-selling success).


>From: "Carol and John Spradling"
>I read the above post several times, and couldn't avoid feeling it was
>gratuitous... making fun of the disabled and all that. Maybe I'm just
>being oversensitive.
>


Elizabeth Finkler
Mother in "Hansel and Gretel"
Bay Shore Lyric Opera
Capitola, CA
December 11, 12, 18, 19, all performances 3 pm
mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com

"I find that the best way to ride the Schuylkill Expressway is to scratch
two rabbits' feet, pat my lucky moonstone, count my worry beads, count ten,
spit into the wind, say my private Devil-Worshipper's prayer, and merge into
the traffic stream." --Alfred Bendiner

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