So much for the light of the virgin morning...
So, according to the New York Post, Broadway actor James Barbour (watch out, his links tend to be rather Scientology-related), star of shows such as Urinetown, Jane Eyre, and Beauty and the Beast, has been arrested for sex abuse and sodomy, apparently accused by a now 19 year-old aspiring actress who was 15 at the time of their, er, alleged encounters. That's pretty much all the information that there is at this point.

Unsurprisingly, theatre message boards explode. BroadwayWorld seems to be bogging down in "let's not speculate," although there are such stunners as:
Sodomy
It's between
God and me
And also James!...

and

I'm selling T shirts:
"I slept with James Barbour and all I got was a lousy pamphlet on Silent Birth"
anyone want??

But of course, All That Chat is where the battle begins.

There's all the usual whenever rape comes up, questioning the news source, suggesting the accuser should 'move on', outrage at the term 'move on' and questionable comparisons, suggestions that the accuser is doing it for the attention (of course casting agents will think, "Get me the girl who was sodomized by James Barbour/accused James Barbour of sodomizing her!" any time they are casting), the irresistible urge to mock Scientology, the usual in-fighting, it's all there. And seeing as no one really knows anything but everyone is apparently going to talk about it anyway, I don't see it stopping any time soon.