It Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Girl: The Seventies

The spanking scene in Nicer Girl was just starting to dry up as the Sixties wound toward their end, but there was a little life in the old play yet – and, gloriously, it was now living that life in groovy early Seventies fashions!

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February 26-27: Prescott High School, Arizona: Scott Sturdevant spanks Mazie Rice:

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The junior play at Neoga High School, Illinois; Don Secrest spanks mini-skirted Betty Starwalt:

And aat St Henry’s Church Youth Club in Charleston, Missouri, April 17 and 18 were spanking days for Debbie Duenne, courtesy of Larry Lankheit:

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March 10: Piqua High School, Ohio; Garry Shirk spanks Leslie Tyler:

There were later productions, but there are no known spanking photos associated with them. Among the last to be traced were those at Wilmington High School, Ohio, where it was the junior play in the school year 1975-76, and at Conestoga Valley High School, Pennsylvania, on November 18 and 19, 1977. The latter was directed by Edward C. Appel, and Tagge Forrest spanked Beth Appel – yes, the director’s daughter.

The last Maudie?

These schools must have been using old copies of the script, because the productions used the original title, Men are Like Streetcars.

And so it’s goodbye to Christopher Sergel’s play, which must, during the nearly three decades of its active life, have facilitated the spanking of at least a thousand high school students across almost every state of the union, and given us a lot of innocent pleasure along the way. Hail and farewell!

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