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Lima Times: Letter to the Editor
Dear Mr. Editor,
I am both shocked and appalled at the recent television advertisement I saw about a production of RENT. The show is highly inappropriate in any civilized environment on its own. However, this show is being presented by a group of high school students, held in an old strip club. This is absolutely unacceptable.
RENT is an aberration among musicals. It takes the hard work of Rodgers and Hammerstein and spits on their grave. The play has every bit of the sex, drugs, and rock and roll that have perverted the younger generation's minds. The show promotes gratuitous heroin usage and glorifies homosexuality. One of the characters cross-dresses, for Heaven's sake. It touts having AIDS as a rite of passage. It celebrates anarchy and entitlement. The characters simply expect to be given things (such as living in an apartment for free) rather than working hard to earn them.
I ask you: What kind of lessons is RENT teaching our children and grandchildren? It encourages them to abandon any sense of self-worth or responsibility in favor of going wild. It is absolutely unresponsible of the children AND the adults involved to allow RENT to be presented. I, for one, will not stand for it.
Sincerely,
Mildred Freeport
I am both shocked and appalled at the recent television advertisement I saw about a production of RENT. The show is highly inappropriate in any civilized environment on its own. However, this show is being presented by a group of high school students, held in an old strip club. This is absolutely unacceptable.
RENT is an aberration among musicals. It takes the hard work of Rodgers and Hammerstein and spits on their grave. The play has every bit of the sex, drugs, and rock and roll that have perverted the younger generation's minds. The show promotes gratuitous heroin usage and glorifies homosexuality. One of the characters cross-dresses, for Heaven's sake. It touts having AIDS as a rite of passage. It celebrates anarchy and entitlement. The characters simply expect to be given things (such as living in an apartment for free) rather than working hard to earn them.
I ask you: What kind of lessons is RENT teaching our children and grandchildren? It encourages them to abandon any sense of self-worth or responsibility in favor of going wild. It is absolutely unresponsible of the children AND the adults involved to allow RENT to be presented. I, for one, will not stand for it.
Sincerely,
Mildred Freeport