Reefer Madness The Musical
In 1936 a movie was released about the dangers of marijuana. Marijuana horrified the clean-cut sect of US citizens, so a group in the clean-cut sect of the US made a film to horrify children away from doing the pot. They called it Reefer Madness. This movie grossly exaggerates and invents bizarre side effects of smoking marijuana, which makes the movie seem really funny and silly today, and most likely hindered drug awareness in the US thus having the opposite effect of what was intended. Oh well. Below is a clip of people freaking out when they smoke marijuana in Reefer Madness.
Even though this doesn't happen in real life when people smoke marijuana, the reality of what happens to people when they smoke pot would be far too boring to make a movie about, unless you like watching someone play video games all day. The fact that this movie is so far fetched has inspired Reefer Madness to become... a musical! RK Productions has brought to Seattle Reefer Madness: The Musical, running February 22 - March 22. From the Reefer Madness: The Musical press release:
The year is 1936: FDR is in the White House, Duke Ellington is playing the Jazz Clubs; Gone with the Wind sits on everyone's nightstand and Our Gang plays on the goggle box. The unsuspecting nation sleeps easy while a leafy green assassin lurks in the shadows, feeding on America's seedy underbelly of filth and degradation. Marihuana is that assassin: a violent narcotic, and unspeakable scourge; the real public enemy number 1!
REEFER MADNESS: THE MUSICAL depicts the tale of Jimmy Harper, an exemplary, upstanding lad tragically ravaged and twisted into a hedonistic and murderous weed fiend. YOU WILL BE SHOCKED as the reefer seduces him into a world filled with sadistically wild orgies, junkie zombies, homicide, and the devil himself!
***REEFER MADNESS is a highly stylized and satirical political commentary. It contains adult humor, religious parody, drug use, as well as suggested violence and sexual explicitness. It may prove TOO SHOCKING for some audiences! ***
Too Shocking!
Location: Live Girls! Theater (map)
Show Dates: March 6-8, 13 -15, 20-22
Time: 7:30pm, Saturdays 7:30pm and 10:30pm
Price: $20 (buy tickets online)
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Have you seen the show yet? I'd like to check it out soon. I have 2 friends in the show!