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    Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again

    Watching Rent, One Last Time

    In Which I Start To Say Goodbye to Rent

    Short Ends: Rent Blows, Borat Speaks, Spielberg Passes
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    I object to the spelling "theatre."
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    So I guess this means my high school won't be doing Lysistrata...
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    I don't think it should be performed in high schools either. Mainly because of the message it sends about AIDS.


    And that message is that if you're sort of hot, you can go 4 months living homeless on the streets with AIDS without receiving any medical treatment whatsoever and not die.

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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    Wait, some high schools don't allow prostitution in their school plays? THERE GO HALF THE MUSICALS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. There were few plays I was in during high school that didn't involve either a stripper or a prostitute: Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity, Redhead...


    (Okay. We did The Sound of Music, too.)

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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    02/20/09

    @eatsshootsleaves: Haven't heard the 4th verse of "My Favorite Things," have you?


    Trannies in Spandex

    and schoolgirls in platforms...

    a tall dominatrix

    and rentboys for S&M


    Submissive sla-aves, all tied up with strings

    These are a few of my favorite things...

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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    I thought it was clear that Mimi was a prostitute, but no matter. There’s plenty of material in Rent that most people would find inappropriate for high schoolers, from drug use to stripping to crass promicuity—I can’t imagine it’s just a gay thing that’s getting feathers ruffled.


    Is a production of Rent an effective theatrical response to homophobia on a high school campus? It’s a dated freak show and, it seems to me, not broadly representative of homosexuals. If homophobia is the issue, why not put on something like the Matthew Shepherd story?

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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    Taking any show with content on the road down south reminds me of my favorite campaign stop story. The Reagoons, Mr and Mrs, at a nursing home. Ronnie speaks his standard stump to a roomful of vacant stares. Let me try, says Nancy, and she wades in with some chipper chriping about America and drugs and Our Fathers. Vacant stares. It's Mt Rushmore out there.


    That's all, folks. The moral is, it don't git no better.

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    Image of tammyfey tammyfey
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    I remember back when we did Oklahoma at my boys' boarding school, no one seemed to object to the "I'm just a girl who can't say no" gangbang scene.
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    02/20/09

    @tammyfey: HAHA!
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    02/20/09

    @tammyfey: Last Exit to Tammyfey.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    My high school wouldn't let us put on a certain play because it was too "racy" -- it was Candide. (And, no, I didn't grow up in France in the 1700s.)
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    You can talk, you can talk

    You can bicker, you can talk

    You can bicker, bicker, bicker

    You can talk, you can talk

    You can talk, talk, talk, talk,

    Bicker, bicker, bicker

    You can talk all you want

    But it's different then it was

    No it ain't, no it ain't

    But you gotta know the territory!


    Cash for the advertising,

    Cash for the page views,

    $120 for a view of Julia's tits.

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    Image of Zorica Zorica
    02/20/09

    @El Matardillo: In Gawkerville it's "Click a little, talk a little, click a little, talk a little, cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, click a little more."
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    Image of meg9 meg9
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    The high school near my college tried to perform the vagina monologues a few years ago (Amherst, MA) I can't imagine how many teachers and parents at the school in this article would absolutely DIE over that.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    02/20/09

    @meg9: But I guess all their efforts got swallowed up, huh?
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    I can't wait for the rights to Taboo and Spring Awakening to be available for high school productions.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    02/20/09

    @EleanorRigby: Clearly SOMEONE hasn't been up on their 90210.
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    02/20/09

    @DahlELama: [popwatch.ew.com]


    The rights aren't available yet, despite being on a super factual tv show.

     Reply
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    Imagine the poor parents: just when they thought 11-year-olds in a 45-minute Guys & Dolls was going to be lowest, saddest point of the academic year...
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    Image of kjack kjack
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    I'm still waiting for someone to put on "The New Warden."
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    The school opted for a less controversial Sarah Kane production.
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    Image of blix blix
    02/20/09

    In reply to Heartland High School Principals Classify Rent as 'Edgy' Again
    By all means don't go to see Avenue Q. I thought it was a Muppet musical for Pete's sake but it wasn't!
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