Mama Mia
Posted on | November 15, 2006 | No Comments
I would be remiss in my duties as a local theatre ombudsman and third-generation Italian American if I didn’t mention the ridiculous hoopla over a local school’s play, which traffics in goodfella stereotypes. I have to take the opposite view of folks over at Chicagoist: lighten the hell up. It’s far more damaging, in my mind, that a vaguely menacing national group of men bearing the name Order of the Sons of Italy should be leaning on a bunch of pre-teens. And it seems that, yet again, this is a case of people taking offense at the idea of something that could, in execution, possibly offend some people, because the play hasn’t even been staged yet. Moreover, how inconsequential could a middle-school light comedy in Batavia be? Hell, how inconsequential would it be if it were done at any number of storefronts on the North Side by recent Northwestern grads? They really want to help society combat racial stereotypes, they should go put the screws to Tony & Tina’s Wedding.
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