Best Broadway Show for Teenagers?

[iTaLiAn xOx StAr]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:18pm

Hey, everyone! My chorus and I are traveling to a competition in NYC this April, and my director just announced that we'll be seeing a Broadway musical! Yay! Anyway, which show, in your opinion, would be the best choice for us to see? It's a high school chorus w/ girls and guys, from Freshman to Seniors. Thanks!

always, Lexi

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:19pm

Hmmmm.

I would say Wicked since it's all the rage, but it's impossible to get tickets.

Maybe Spelling Bee or DRS? How about Sweeney?

[BroadwaynSeventh]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:22pm

I would definately say wicked... its great! But yeah its impossible to get tickets. Spelling Bee is great too but they chip sings about his erection. Maybe Hairspray?

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:23pm

SWEET CHARITY.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:26pm

Well, wouldn't high schoolers be old enough to handle that? I mean, it's not like Avenue Q or anything like that.

[iTaLiAn xOx StAr]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:26pm

What's Sweet Charity about?

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:27pm

www.sweetcharitythemusical.com

[ashley0139]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:28pm

Definetly Hairspray! It's perfect. Or RENT.

[lamentingenvelope]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:28pm

Ditto Sweet Charity!

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:29pm

Ljay's going to explode into bits and pieces in front of you, but I'll lead you to a website.

http://www.theatrehistory.com/american/sweet_charity_001.html

[SweetCharity4life]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:32pm

i think Rent

[jasonf]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:34pm

I'm taking my 7th and 8th graders to see Spelling Bee in November. It's ABOUT middle schoolers. They can handle a three minute song that's not particularly explicit about something that they can definitely identify with. It would be a shame to deny them the show because of that song. Go to Spelling Bee. You'll love it.

edit

I'd be MUCH more hesitant to take them to Sweet Charity about prositutes, and have already said REPEATEDLY to the kids who keep asking that Rent is going to be possible.

Updated On: 10/8/05 at 06:34 PM

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:36pm

Although I love Rent, and I deem it appropriate for highschool kids, I dont think administration would.

How about Phantom, Beauty and the Beast, Wicked, The Lion King or Chitty?

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:38pm

You really can't get into Wicked...

[hak]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:42pm

highschoolers should be able to handle anything on broadway
stop living in a bubble!

AVE Q
WICKED
or SWEENEY TODD

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:43pm

Oh, hak. Not Avenue Q.

[jasonf]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:43pm

I wouldn't be comfortable, as a teacher, taking highschool kids to Avenue Q. Wicked is fine (I took my middle school kids two years ago). Sweeney may be (pun semi-intended) cutting it close on appropriateness....

[jasonf]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:46pm

If I was rating the shows as movies:

Avenue Q -- NC-17
Wicked -- PG (maybe PG-13 for scariness, but a very WEAK PG13)
Rent -- R
Spelling Bee -- weak PG-13, and then only for MUE, otherwise it's G
Sweet Charity -- PG-13
Sweeney Todd -- strong PG-13, bordering on R depending on the kid.
Phantom -- PG
Beauty and the Beast -- G
Lion King -- G

Any others mentioned I missed?

[hak]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:48pm

Q is not that bad for HIGH SCHOOL aged young adults. most highscoolers hear/do a lot worse things than what Q has to offer

[jasonf]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:50pm

That might be, but I wouldn't feel comfortable taking them to it. If I wouldn't do it with Rent, I surely wouldn't do it with Ave. Q! If parents want to take their highschool kids to that, I agree, most kids could handle it. As a school sponsored event though, Ave. Q is inappropriate unless it's a group of seniors.

[Broadwaygirl22]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:54pm

"Although I love Rent, and I deem it appropriate for highschool kids, I dont think administration would."

My high school chorus is seeing Rent later this year. Maybe some schools don't approve of it, but mine does.

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:54pm

Last year, my school was originally supposed to go see RENT, but the tix fell through, so we went and saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I think either of those are okay.

[hak]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:55pm

the rating thing is way off on a few shows--->

RENT = PG13
Q = R

NC-17 is for STRONG SEXUAL/nudity Q's language is a mild R
nothing in RENT warrants an R [even the film is PG13!]

[jasonf]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 6:58pm

If you're going by language alone Rent should earn an R. More than one case of the "F" word gives any movie an R (which is part of what's worrying me about the film's rating).

Maybe you're right on Ave. Q, but even if it's R, most public highschools will not allow a class trip to see an R movie.

[hak]

Posted: 10/8/05 at 7:03pm

wrong again on the "F" word thing... i just recently did a paper on the movie rating sytem and it's up to 5 "F"s depending on usage ... as long as they don't use in describing the actual ACT of "F"ing... so RENT is fine as PG13


but, i'm wondering is this whole issue making us instill a prudish attitude in our young minds?