Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
#0Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 9:40pm
In no order
1. Sunday In The Park With George
2. Assassins
3. Passion
4. Kiss Of The Spider Woman
5. Sweeney Todd (Some try it, and it makes me sick.)
Also I really hate to see shows like Chicago, and Cabaret in High Schools, but at this point, many many many High Schools have done it.
What musicals would you never want to see performed in a HS?
MarkCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#1re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 9:42pm
1.Rent
2.Rent
3.Rent
4.Rent
5.Rent
TheaterAddict7652
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/06
#2re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 9:48pmljay, I feel like it depends on the actual school thats doing Chicago or Caberet. My school has done both, but we have the best theater department in the area...so it was done really well. (Actually, when we put on Chicago a couple of years ago, The Washington Post published an article about it) If the school doesn't have a good theater department, then it won't turn out as well.
There's a lot I am not certain of...
#3re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 9:50pm
Rent
Wicked
Avenue Q
Hairspray
And the number 1 I would hate toe see:
Rent and Wicked
"I mean, how many of us could honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building?"
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#4re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 9:51pmThe Wild Party - either version.
#5re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 9:51pm
I have big complaints with the material of Chicago, and Cabaret in HS.
Which I have spoken about very openly on this board. But I just DON'T want to get into my reasoning right now in this thread.
I don't want this to be another thread debating if those two K&E masterpieces should be in High Schools or not.
I'm just curious what shows you would never want to see done by HS students.
Updated On: 5/25/06 at 09:51 PM
#6re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 9:51pm
I have big complaints with the material of Chicago, and Cabaret in HS.
Which I have spoken about very openly on this board. But I just DON'T want to get into my reasoning right now in this thread.
I don't want this to be another if those two K&E masterpieces should be in High Schools or not.
I'm just curious what shows you would never want to see done my HS students.
#7re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 9:57pm
1. Anything by Sondheim, aside from Into The Woods
2. Anything by LaChiusa
3. Anything by Finn, aside from Spelling Bee
4. Anything by Guettel
5. Anything by Ricky Ian Gordon
#8re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:00pm
High schools do Sweeney? .... why? How?
Most Sondheim shows should stay out of most high schools, IMO. As well as Rent, Cabaret and Aida (not because of the subject, as with the former two, but simply because I don't want to see it mutilated). I think it goes without saying that LaChiusa's material doesn't belong in a high school, either.
#9re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:03pmTry to imagine a 16-year-old playing Marie Christine L'Adrese.
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#10re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:06pm
L5Y
Sunday in the Park with George
Company
PRetty much anything Sondheim or Jason Robert Brown
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#11re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:06pm
Wicked
The Lion King
Avenue Q
Lestat
Sweeney Todd
so. much. drama.
Chorus Member Joined: 5/23/06
#12re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:07pm
1. les mis
2. sweeney todd
3. dreamgirls
4. caroline, or change
5. grease (no one should ever do grease)
#13re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:09pm
Avenue Q
Almost anything by Sondheim
Wicked
The Pillowman
Spamalot
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#14re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:09pm
Rent
Wicked
Sweeney
Avenue Q
Les Mis
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#15re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:11pmEmcee, my high school just did Aida this year and it was simply amazing. I was very impressed by everyone in the cast and paid to see it 4 times. I do go to a creative and performing arts high school, though.
~Sara~
#16re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:12pm
And for every high school that might do it well, there are like five who hack it to miserable bits.
My former high school amost did it. I would've flipped out.
#17re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:15pm
In no particular order:
Sweeney Todd, or anything by Sondheim
Chicago
Avenue Q
See What I Wanna See
The Producers
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#18re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:16pmMy college friend was in the pit for her high school production of "Sunday in the Park with George" ... I don't want to even imagine what that was like.
Stop looking at my charisma.
#19re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:18pm
See What I Wanna See would be hilarious if done by a highschool.
for all the wrong reasons. STAY AWAY 
"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
#20re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:24pm
1. Rent
2. Cabaret
3. Les Miserables
4. Aida
5. Wicked
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
My avatar: Yummy, no?
My avatar: Yummy, no?
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#21re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:28pm
Haha I could just see a 14 year old girl in some oversized kimono (or whatever the word is for what she was wearing in the show)-
He knifes into my body forcibly and proud...my lover is incredibly endowed...bigger than my husband...
#22re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:29pm::dies::
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#23re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:30pm
HAHAHAHAHAHA...
you wanna know how goooood she was. you wanna know how good I was
"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
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#24re: Top 5 Musicals You'd Never Want To See In A High School?
Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:30pm
is that you in your picture aspiringactress?
EDIT: Now I am listening to See What I Wanna See cast recording and I want some grapefruit juice. I seem to want some sort of juice everytime I listen to Morito.
Updated On: 5/25/06 at 10:30 PM
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