Rent
Rent is a fee paid periodically to a landowner for providing land to another for a certain amount of time, or in economics, "the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate."[1]
Rent is also the title of a musical play and movie about artists living in New York in the early 1990's. A student version of the musical has been released for high school drama clubs to perform. Though some sexual content and drug use had been partially removed (most notably the removal of a sexually explicit song), it was insufficient to meet community standards of decency. "Administrators or parents raised objections about the show's morality, its portrayals of homosexuality and theft, and its frank discussions of drug use and HIV" and performances of the musical have been cancelled at high schools in California, Texas and West Virginia.[2]
| “ | Ron Martin, the theater teacher and director at Corona del Mar High School in Orange County, found out how controversial Rent can be. It was canceled after he chose the student version for the spring musical, hoping it would counter what he saw as creeping homophobia on campus... "This is the first time I've chosen a show for the high school because I had an agenda," Martin said. "In this instance, having an agenda as a teacher didn't give me pause."[2] | ” |
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References
- ↑ rent (English) (HTML). Dictionary.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-30. “a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property." & "Economics. the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate."”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stage Set for Controversy When Schools Put on 'Rent' San Diego Union-Tribune, February 20, 2009.