Suggest a play for a high school production in the near future...- Page 2

[etoile]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 10:02pm

Something about this thread doesn't smell right. Seems like a set-up.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 10:03pm

How about THE GLASS MENAGERIE? That's one of my favorite plays, along with A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and OUR TOWN (Shut up, FW!).

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[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 10:04pm

We're doing one called Fools this year. I've never heard of it...

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 10:29pm

Excellent suggestions.

Keep it alive.



Set up...sounds like another Chavez/Sheehan conspiracy theory.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:01pm

He needs play suggestions again.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:03pm

You know, there's this really big book published by Samuel French and Dramatist Play Service at least once a year. It's called a (say it with me) CATALOGUE.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:05pm

Do Equus.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:05pm

Thanks for the """"""""""""""""""""help."""""""""""""""""""""""""

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:05pm

"He needs play suggestions again."

Who is he?! Satan?

And, who cares?

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[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:09pm

Again, thanks for the ""help.""

[Jon]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:10pm

FOOLS is a very funny, but lesser-known Neil Simon play. It is set in a little Russian village where everyone isunder a curse that makes them stupid. A young teacher comes to town and tries to teach the daughter of the town doctor, but finds he's becoming stipid himself.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:12pm

Again, who's "he"?

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:15pm

hmmmm I wonder why "he" can't make the request for suggestions "himself"?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:17pm

I think it's because "he" is Satan.

like: "It want's no straps!"

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:19pm

Any and all suggestions are appreciated. The other idle running commentary says so much about those posting it, and nothing about play selection.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:21pm

So is it Chanti or HDT.V. who's asking?

WAIT, they are one and the same, aren't they?


I suggest DEATH TRAP and use a lot of man-on-man tounge action.

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:24pm

"The other idle running commentary says so much about those posting it, and nothing about play selection."

Yes, I'd say it suggests that most of we idle commentators couldn't care less about your need for play suggestions.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 2:03pm

While I don't adhere or agree with many points of her philosophy, Ayn Rand wrote a very good play called "Night of January 16th"


Night of January 16 was a play written by Ayn Rand, inspired by the death of the "Match King", Ivar Kreuger. First published in 1934, it took place entirely in a court room and was centered on a murder trial. It was a hit of the 1935-36 Broadway season. The play dealt with issues of a man's ability to regard self as important and exist in a society where moral decay was ever prevalent. It also dealt with issues of love, loyalty and betrayal.

What was particularly interesting was a feature of the play which picked members of the audience to take on the role of jury members each night. Depending on whether the "Jury" found the defendant of the case, as in the play, "guilty" or "not guilty" - the play would have different endings.

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[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 4:14pm

Night of January 16th is great for schools- Tons of suporting roles, a great audience gimmick (They decide guilty or not guilty) and a wonderful opportunity to debate Rand's philosophy.

And I think every school should do Inherit the Wind every couple of years.

[raphael06]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 4:49pm

You Can't Take It With You
Out of the Frying Pan
A Few Good Men
Twelve Angry Men
A Midsummer's Night's Dream
Noises Off
Dead Man Walking
Brighton Beach Memoirs

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 5:09pm

All of those are great suggestions, and he has done several of them.

Noises Off is the most likely candidate.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 6:46pm

ANATOMY OF GRAY.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 7:07pm

Oh Calcutta!

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 12:23am

Any fans of Harvey?

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 12:27am

There's a very neat little thriller called "The Playroom" by Mary Daton...Danton...Drayton...something starting with the letter "D".

It had a, unjustifiably, very short run on Broadway back in the Sixties.

It's about a group of teenagers, who live in the same Brownstone with their wealthy parents. One of them is getting a new, much younger step-sister and the kids plan on kidnapping her and hiding her in their secret "playroom". But things don't turn out as planned.

The cast is ten or twelve characters, teenagers with a two parents and police officers. It's all set in their playroom with one or two scenes in the living room of one of the families. You could use the main stage for the playroom and do the living room "in one" in front of the curtain with just a couple of chairs and tables.

It's worth looking into.

Or, if you need to cast a lot of kids, do a musical sized straight play. I'd suggest Hart and Kaufmann's "Once In A Lifetime" about Hollywood when the movies just start to talk.