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Rent for Kids Too Risque, Blast Parents, Schools

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 20, 2009 10:43 AM CST

(Newser) – The long-running Broadway musical Rent has been edited for the school stage, but the truncated version retains themes of drugs, AIDS, and homosexuality that have some administrators running scared, the New York Times reports. High school productions around the country have met with administrative and... Read full story »

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