Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 10:33pm
so..choosing what musical to conquer.
need good songs...good storyline and material..easy to produce.
also..majority of cast is female. i'll have 2-4 males. thats it.
any suggestions?
so far i have sweet charity and nine.
and I will not touch Nunsense.
so what else?
shoot!
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#2re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 10:35pmi was about to say nine!
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 10:35pmi have to use about 10-12 females
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#4re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 10:36pm
RUTHLESS!
One male dressed as a woman, I believe.
Quilters has 0 men.
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#5re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 10:50pm
INSIDE OUT
A great musical about a women's therapy group.
Not a man in sight
and for a str8 play with dancing. Stepping Out - one man
Or the musical version
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gumbo2
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#7re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 10:59pmOkay this isn't helpful because you can't do it...but Princesses! Oh man what a trainwreck...sorry, I'm sort of just reminiscing.
#8re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:09pmSmile- about teenaged beauty pageant contestants.
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-Marie Christine
LuPonatic
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#10re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:13pmis 'smile' funny? like 'drop dead gorgeous' /'little miss sunshine' campy fun?
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#11re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:20pmYeah, some of it is very campy. And you could certainly play it up. I think the second half drags, but its a good show The music is great.
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual."
-Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
CurtainPullDowner
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#12re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:25pm
THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT THE SMELL OF THE CROWD
HENRY SWEET HENRY
Both rarely done but worth looking into...
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#12re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:25pmLittle Woman
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eb412
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#14re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 12:48amsmile is campy fun. i have done it with very few guys...dont forget you need two youngish boys too...anyhoo if you have a small cast of female you can make the ensemble roles even bigger. i did it with 8 girls in the competetion plus the judges...but the ensemble isnt terrible anyway...they all have solos and featured moments. dont forget you will need to figure out how to deal with the naked photo.
#15re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 5:55amSorry, but HENRY isnt predominately women. It has an even balance in genders. Yes, thrre's the schoolgirls, but there's also a "hippie" chorus at the top of Act Two that's predominately men.
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luvtheatre11
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#17re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 7:30amWhat might be fun would be to take something like IRMA LA DOUCE, which is all men and one woman, and switch the genders.
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#18re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 8:10amThe Rink. You could make the construction workers female.
....but the world goes 'round
bare_nakedlady
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#19re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 11:05am
I CAN'T KEEP RUNNING IN PLACE
Good size cast of women dealing with women issues. Also, some songs are a little racy. But there aren't any men.
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL
#20re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 11:11amMENOPAUSE!
....but the world goes 'round
#21re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 11:22amThe revue JERRY'S GIRLS was staged here recently with 9 ladies and I see no reason why that number could not be expanded.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#22re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 12:32pm
A, MY NAME IS ALICE
a bit overdone in my opinion, but check it out anyways.
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
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"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#23re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 12:45pm
What might be fun would be to take something like IRMA LA DOUCE, which is all men and one woman, and switch the genders.
This would be highly illegal unless written permission is recieved from the author's or whoever runs the author's estates. Which is doubtful.
taboo123 - Why won't you touch the NUNSENSE shows? They have larger cast versions of Nunsense and Nuncrackers available now. AND they are fun to do and always hugely popular with audiences. Not sure about casting for the large cast versions, but NUNCRACKERS has at least one male role in it already. So you could utilize both the low number of guys and have lots of stuff to do for all your ladies.
<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018
WestVillage
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#24re: Musicals with MOSTLY FEMALES.....HELP!
Posted: 2/28/07 at 1:17pm
I Can't Keep Running in Place ... an off-Broadway musical from the 1980s about a woman's group therapy session ... very cute show.
Quilters was an all-female cast as well I believe.
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