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Park City • Marijuana has been called a "gateway drug" that leads those who smoke it into heavier and more destructive narcotics and life of crime.
That was the premise of the 1936 propaganda film and cautionary tale "Tell Your Children," which resurfaced 40 years later as "Reefer Madness."
The story is about Jimmy Harper and how his and his girlfriend's lives are ruined through a haze of drugs, sex and murder. Of course, all this happens after a hostess named Mae and her pusher boyfriend, Jack, lure them into attending pot parties at a nearby reefer den.
Although the original actors' earnest anti-cannabis portrayals remained intact when the film re-emerged in the 1970s, they were seen as campy and over-the-top, which helped relaunch the film as a cult comedy, said William Richardson, the director and choreographer of the Dark Horse Company Theatre's production of "Reefer Madness: The Musical," which continues this week at The Egyptian Theatre.
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'Reefer Madness'
Dark Horse Company Theatre offers "Reefer Madness: The Musical," an over-the-top comedy that warns of the horrors of marijuana.
Where • The Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., Park City
When • Thursday through Saturday, April 25-27, 8 p.m.; and Sunday, April 28, at 6 p.m.
Tickets • $25 to $44; parkcityshows.com