Small Cast Musicals
Small Cast Musicals
#1Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/21/13 at 10:55pmMost of us think of Broadway musicals as large-cast affairs, with lots of characters, a production number or two, dancing, and maybe even a subplot. However, I can think of one that had only two characters: "I Do, I Do." Can anyone think of any other small-cast musicals?
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#2Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/21/13 at 11:01pm
STORY OF MY LIFE, THE LAST 5 YEARS and MARRY ME A LITTLE each have only two characters.
GLORY DAYS, EDGES and SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD have only four.
Some of them are more song cycles/revues but still.
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
Updated On: 5/21/13 at 11:01 PM
#2Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/21/13 at 11:28pm
Rooms: A Rock Romance is two.
tick, tick... BOOM is three, originally written as one.
[title of show] is four.
Closer Than Ever is five, I believe.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is six.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
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#3Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/21/13 at 11:38pmThey're Playing Our Song - it's only 2 people onstage, then a few offstage voices.
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#7Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 12:09am
Goblin Market - 2 people
Starting Here, Starting Now - 3 people
#8Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 12:11amNot sure of the exact number, but Passion has a relatively small cast.
#11Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 7:31amI believe Little Women's cast is fewer than 10.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#12Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 9:07am
Romance/Romance - 4
Ain't Misbehavin' - 5
One Mo' Time - 5
Side by Side by Sondheim - 5
John and Jen - 2
Gunmetal Blues - 3
No Way to Treat a Lady - 5
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#14Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 10:56amFame Becomes Me has five and a half- the "half" being the conductor/composer, who occasionally interjects with a line or two from the piano.
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#15Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 10:57am
Don't forget the Nunsense franchise.
But my favorite small cast show has already been mentioned: I Do!, I Do! It's really enjoyable to perform. Such great characters, and you get to play the saxophone badly (or violin)!
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#16Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 12:14pm
The Big Bang - 2 + keyboardist (who plays small part)
Forever Plaid - 4 + 2 piece band (piano + bass who get a small part)
Jacques Brel is a Live and Well and Living in Paris (revue) (4)
Ordinary Days 4 + (only 1 keyboard)
I think "A Year with Frog & Toad" can be done with just 2.
Updated On: 5/23/13 at 12:14 PM
#17Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 12:50pm
Always, Patsy Cline -2
The World Goes Round-I think 6?
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#19Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 1:18pmThe Toxic Avenger is only 5.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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#20Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 9:35pm
Daddy Long Legs only has 2.
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#22Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 10:08pm
Elaine Stritch at Liberty (1) (considered a special theatrical event, but it is a musical play, and could conceivably be done in the future by someone other than Elaine (not that I'm suggesting it should be, but it could))
The Madwoman of Central Park West (1)
Souvenir (2) (although it's really a play with music; well, if you can call it music)
Piaf (4) (also usually considered a play with music)
I Love My Wife (4 plus a 4 character band)
Putting it Together (5)
Berlin to Broadway (5)
Side by Side by Sondheim (3)
A Year With Frog and Toad (5)
Trouble in Tahiti (2 character opera)
La Voix Humaine (1 character opera)
The Telephone (2 character opera)
Mozart i Salieri (2 character opera)
Updated On: 5/22/13 at 10:08 PM
#23Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 10:12pmHas "Stritch At Liberty" ever been tried by anyone else? I believe "Everyday Rapture" exists in a revised and less autobiographical form for licensing now.
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#24Small Cast Musicals
Posted: 5/22/13 at 10:23pmThe Falsettos Trilogy: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. (aka Falsettos)
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