Curses, foiled again!

That's what I suspect the parents who objected to the play "Marian or, The True Tale of Robin Hood" are saying now.  Rather than cause the  cancellation, after it had been approved and cast, of a play that they felt had too much LGBTQ+ content, they provided the impetus for nation wide coverage of the story of how the students produced this play, and the presentation of the play to a huge audience at Foellinger Theater, much larger than if they had just put it on as a Carroll High School production.  The play itself was a delight.  Think Shakespeare with women disguised as men and misidentifications (a frequent theme) and you get the feel of it.  In my opinion the wicked King John stole the show but every actor did an excellent job.  Kudos also to the creators of the stage set and everyone involved in the scene changes.  As far as the LGBTQ+ content there may have been innuendos all through the play that I didn't pick up on but only one scene contained overt gay material.  Two women admitted to being in love with each other and one woman admitted to feeling like not a man, not a woman, but just a person.  I thought the scene was endearing.  And there were several heterosexual romances going on throughout the play. To top off a perfect evening, it was announced at the end of the play that enough money had been raised to put on this play that each of the 28 students involved in the production would receive a $1,000 scholarship.