It will apply not only to plays but also opera. Carmen, one of the world’s most performed operas, is set in a cigarette factory and the lead is a cigarette seller.
Back on April 18, 2001 New York's Theatre Communications Group (TCG) filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to rule in favor of three Colorado theater companies arguing that smoking within the context of a theatrical production is a First Amendment right of free expression. (Smoking within the context of a theatrical production should it be allowed??)
Several Denver area theaters had appealed the decision, but the Supreme Court declined to take the case in a Monday decision.
Reference: U.S. Supreme Allows Ban On Actors/Actresses Smoking by Robert Welle, ALLVOICES.com, 5/24/2010.
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