Hmmm, well it's a 20th Century Fox film, which is now owned by Disney......
Oh, but the mouse is so open-minded and willing to work with people when it comes to copyright infringement and intellectual property.
I'm afraid not. Any showing of copyrighted material is infringement. My 7th graders wanted to do a staged version of Princess Bride. This was in a private school and the only people in the audience would have been friends and family. I contacted William Goldman for permission and he said "no." Upon further discussion I was told that even if we just went into the auditorium and turned on the lights, it counts as a "production"! Fair Use covers working with the material in the classroom only- scene study, character work, etc.
It's my understand that fair use means you can use what you like in your classroom with students, but the moment you invite any kind of audience, it becomes a performance. It think it would even count as a performance if they were performing in the classroom for the parents of the students. Whether admission is charged is irrelevant - you're still using someone's work.
I hope they get through their run OK, but when I was in HS back in the 70's, we got slapped by Mad Magazine for stealing some material for an evening of one-acts, and had to cancel. Content owners aren't playing, and with social media, they WILL find out. I still think someone ratted us out to Mad back in the day; how else would they have found out about a high school production in Northern California?
