What??

[rebelprince26]

I just found out that my high school is doing Rent for their spring musical.

Aurora isn't really that liberal of a town. I think I want to fly home and see how this pans out.

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[anonymous]

Heh.

It's hard to picture a high school doing Rent. Well, I could see the students wanting to do it, just not the administrators or parents.

[rebelprince26]

i agree. this is crazy.

[dirigibles]

And, uh, that was me that posted that. I didn't notice that I was logged out.

[qraig]

It's not like you are from the backwoods of Kentucky. Aurora is a suburb of Chicago, is it not? I'm sure it's more forward thinking than many other places in the USA.

[rebelprince26]

it's a suburb of chicago, but strangely a very conservative one. a planned parenthood opened there about six months ago and you'd have thought it was the apocalypse. when i went home last october there were signs EVERYWHERE in people's yards that said "PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS BAD FOR AURORA."

[qraig]

I just read it is the FIRST high school production ever of Rent. Also read, "A high school version was developed and we were the first high school to apply for the license,” said teacher Kerry Proczko, the musical business director.

Makes me think a lot of stuff was probably removed to make it high school friendly.

[rebelprince26]

where did you read that? that's what my mom said, but then i found a bunch of articles saying that other high schools were the first to perform it.

[anonymous]

that's craziness, but amazing-ness. ;-)

[rebelprince26]

ladies and gentlemen....GEEGE!

[ariestar]

I have been waiting to hear of a high school putting on _Rent_. If you do go, let us know how it goes!