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Post by Zeffa! on Sept 1, 2008 16:48:04 GMT -8
So, from what I hear the producers got canned due to rights issues, and Rent got thrown up on the table. Well, I'm not sure how the sschool's going to react, but I'll be excited to see how it goes. I've never actually see the show before, aside from the movie. Wish I could audition.
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Post by silentstranger on Sept 1, 2008 17:07:34 GMT -8
ugh. Don't remind me. I'm trying to wake up from a bad dream.
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Post by Raiku on Sept 1, 2008 21:41:22 GMT -8
Alas, the moral death of the MPHS drama program.
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Post by Dark Beauty on Sept 2, 2008 8:04:55 GMT -8
I guess they are doing a "watered down" version of it. But I don't see how that play CAN get watered down. The story is all about people in relationships with other people who are dying from AIDS or drug abuse... how can you change that? "Oh, we're all dying from muscular distrophy!" It doesn't work like that. And though the music is extremely well written, the lyrics are NOT for school. I don't care if you bleep out a few swear-words here and there, the subject matter is not appropriate.
School productions are NOT put on to make tons of money, though that is a wonderful thing in and of itself. The reason for high school drama is to choose plays that most of if not all students can feel comfortable with so that the students can experience what it is like to be in a show, so that, maybe, they'll choose to persue that career. And if they don't want to have a career, at least they will be able to have that experience.
I can appreciate Rent for what it is and for the "this is what is going on in our world right now: doesn't it just suck?" message it has, but I can NOT appreciate Klementson's choice to have it done in the high school, no matter if we can be the first one in the entire USA to do it. It's not school-appropriate, and it is not a play that all the students would feel comfortable performing.
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Post by Zeffa! on Sept 2, 2008 10:42:56 GMT -8
I don't know, I think it's high school appropriate. It should just have a restricted audience. If it were a TV show it would recieve the TV-14 rating, which is about the youngest one can enter high school.
Besides, if Klem was out to make tons of money for a production, it would be a bad move to restrict the audience. Disney musicals would be what would make the bucks. Cutting the audience down to just teens and adults is a serious detriment to profit, but it may target an audience that usually doesn't go to see high school shows. So, it's a coin toss really.
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Post by Dark Beauty on Sept 2, 2008 18:34:49 GMT -8
I know. But money should not be what the focus is of high school drama. If you wanna read my thing about it, go to Klem's board. I'm done with this.
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Post by Zeffa! on Sept 2, 2008 21:19:01 GMT -8
Don't have an account on Klem's board.
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Post by Dark Beauty on Sept 3, 2008 14:45:45 GMT -8
Eh. Looks like he deleted it anyway. Maybe your brother read it before it was deleted. I don't wanna type it all up again.
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Post by Zeffa! on Sept 5, 2008 21:38:46 GMT -8
Rent's not happening. Wedding Singer!
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