'Rent' Control?

Is the Broadway musical Rent too provocative for high school? Yes, in the view of some high school officials and parents. At least three of the planned high school productions, in California, Texas and West Virginia, have been canceled after 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, according to administrators, teachers and parents involved in those cases.

Three San Diego productions of the musical are scheduled for the summer: one by Francis Parker School, and two by local youth-theater companies – Actors' Conservatory Theatre San Diego and California Youth Conservatory Theatre, according to the Web site for Music Theatre International, which licenses “Rent: School Edition.”