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Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#26re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 1:35pmWhat about MOBY DICK! The Musical?
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#27re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 1:36pmI remember watching a musical version of "Gone with the Wind" on tv where the entire cast was made up of women. It was called "Scarlett"
#28re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 1:36pm
What about the musical
13 Daughters
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#29re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 6:10pm
Anything like 'Godspell' and 'Oh What A Lovely War' can be done with pretty much any cast you have available to you. Mixing and matching genders is fun! ^_^ Did anyone say 'Annie' yet?
#30re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 7:33pmDefinately Annie. Also, Once on this Island can be done with only three males.
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
thirtythirtyninety
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
#31re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 9:21pmI have to second MOBY DICK. Underproduced, lots of female roles, definitely campy!
#32re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 9:27pm
>> Definately Annie
With only two men in the cast???
How???
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#33re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 9:54pm
You could probably do Annie with three guys. I think you'd need at least three because Warbucks, Rooster and FDR are all in the last scene... the ensemble could be all female. Mrs. Bundles, a female cop etc...
Updated On: 2/28/07 at 09:54 PM
#34re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 10:49pm
And all of FDR's cabinet, all well known historical figures, as women???
Isnt that stretching audience credulity a bit far?
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#35re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/1/07 at 4:05pmmaybe an all male cabinet is no longer politically correct. I dunno... theatre is supposed to be all about stretching the imagination. It’s not a lot to ask of an audience that they accept the limitations of a lacking talent pool… happens all the time.
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#36re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/1/07 at 4:10pm
It’s not a lot to ask of an audience that they accept the limitations of a lacking talent pool… happens all the time.
You haven't seen audience accepting "the limitations of a lacking talent pool" until you've seen the Ragtime with only three black people (1 Man, 2 Women)!
I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!
Updated On: 3/1/07 at 04:10 PM
desiree armfeldt
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/07
mediakilled
Stand-by Joined: 5/9/05
#38re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 10:09am
hate annie. . I wouldn't want to deal with annie. at all. i think the only way I'd watch it is by having it take place in a slaughterhouse and have the dog become ravenous and eat each child alive, one by one...while they whine and yelp their final notes to the afterlife.
children should be seen and not heard.
Updated On: 3/2/07 at 10:09 AM
jesseeinstein
Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/03
#39re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 10:12am
First Lady Suite
Hard music though- love LaChuisa
#40re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 10:27am
Mediakilled,
Do you work at a post office? Just checking.
....but the world goes 'round
#41re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 10:29am
>> maybe an all male cabinet is no longer politically correct. I dunno... theatre is supposed to be all about stretching the imagination.
I'm all for stretching the imagination, but making John Foster Dulles into, oh, I dunno, Joanna Foster Dulles is asking a lot.
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mediakilled
Stand-by Joined: 5/9/05
#42re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 10:33amhaha. no. but isn't 'tomorrow' the most annoyingly whiny song ever???
#44re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 10:40amDepends on the singer, I think. Someone like Holly Cole knows how to really rachet that thing up in a way your average 10 year old doesnt. Of course the orchstrations arent helping a lot either. :)
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#45re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 10:44amIt's a little cheesy at this point I agree. I still love Easy Street though.
....but the world goes 'round
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#46re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 12:16pm
I've seen ANNIE done at an all girls school with only 2 men in the cast...and 1776 done at a high school where the Continental Congress was made up of men and women.
BUT...in both instances the gender of the characters weren't changed from men to women. The women simply played the roles as men. The 1776 was actually pretty great. The girl playing John Hancock was TERRIFIC.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
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Understudy Joined: 12/27/06
#47re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 12:51pmI've seen Thoroughly Modern Millie done at an all girls school with only two boys, one playing Jimmy and the other Trevor Graydon..
#48re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 3/2/07 at 12:59pm
Would it be worth running your numbers through http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/search.asp ? It's by no means a definitive list and doesn't really allow for any gender-bending you might want to do, but it can give you a few ideas maybe? ^_^
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