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Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
BwayLeadman
Broadway Star Joined: 9/29/04
#26re: Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
Posted: 2/19/06 at 9:51pmI gotta go with "No No Nanette" on this one too. I believe it shall render the best creative group success in your idiom.
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#27re: Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
Posted: 2/19/06 at 10:05pmWe have just done The Wiz so we are not keen on doing it again.
#28re: Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
Posted: 2/20/06 at 12:25am
You know your audience better thanwe do, but if they loved 42ND STREET they will probably love NO NO NANETTE. I just saw a local music theatre school do this show and it remains a delight in spite of a silly story (but if played seriously as farce it can be funny.)
THE BOY FRIEND starts off with a fun first act but gradually loses steam. (It parodies NANETTE quite a bit, but the score isn't nearly as enjoyable.) MILLIE is even thinner with less of a score. You won't win over many audiences with MUILLIE unless you have a really dynamite cast and a director who can stage it briskly.
LI'L ABNER is loaded with a lot of cornball humour but many of the political targets may baffle audiences now. Great score, though. So does SWEET CHARITY butit is still a problematic show. Audiences respond to the title but the book has some awkward sequences.
Of the 5 you listed, NO NO NANETTE is probably the best choice.
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#29re: Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
Posted: 2/20/06 at 12:32amIF you don't have one amazingly talented female to play those starring roles in Charity and Millie I'd say NO NO NANETTE too.
TheaterAddict7652
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/06
#30re: Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
Posted: 2/20/06 at 12:37amSomeone said Guys and Dolls, which is a great choice. Or Anything Goes.
There's a lot I am not certain of...
#31re: Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
Posted: 2/20/06 at 7:56amWe just did Anything Goes, but thank you!
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#32re: Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:13am
Please don't do Guys and Dolls, everyone does it....
Kiss Me Kate is always a good choice.
#33re: Please Help! Community Theater Decision!
Posted: 2/20/06 at 2:04pmI have done No No Nanette and this was my least favorite show I have ever done. I would stay away from it. My suggestions are Kiss Me Kate, Seussical, and Millie. If you said you have done any of these im sorry i missed it.
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