Students Fight Back After School Shuts Down 'Rent'
Citing 'inappropriate content,' administrators nix spring play choice; Plainfield Central teens say decision sends an anti-gay message.
Editor's note: This article was written by Plainfield Editor Shannon Antinori. Some Plainfield High School - Central Campus students are speaking out after an administrative decision put an end to plans to stage a reworked version of “Rent.” Senior Topher Otake, 17, said students learned Thursday that school administrators would not allow a production of “Rent: School Edition” to move forward for the spring 2013 musical. Want Bolingbrook news delivered free to your inbox? Sign up for the Bolingbrook Patch newsletter. The show is based on Jonathan Larson’s Broadway hit — itself modeled after the opera "La Boheme" — about a group of struggling artists coping with poverty, AIDS and drug addiction. Plainfield Central Principal Robert Smith …
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Kellyofthebrook
7:25 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012
Anti-gay message in schools.... NNNNOOOO.... Really? Rent is a great show. Schools- I mean Parents need to realize that we are exposed to pretty much everything VIA internet. Buh bye innocent minds. Hello Real World more ›