The Sex and Dope Show Saga

Jed Springs's high school production of the once controversial play The Children's Hour was a total success in late June 1997; the talk of the community for all the right reasons. But frustrated with America's puritanical roots and its skewed take on human sexuality-and goaded by his lover, Matt, to put up or shut up about it-Jed decides to workshop a radical idea, The Sex Show. By day, he teaches AP language courses and rehearses a production of Cabaret with his students. By night, his new...