Best Comedies for High School- Page 2

[WOSQ]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 9:47am

One thing I remember about high school plays--the larger the cast, the bigger the audiences. Every parent, grandparent, step-parent and sibling HAS to go see Their Baby in the school play even if they are onstage for 2 minutes and don't utter a word.

Ergo: Arsenic has a bit at the curtain call where the 12 victims currently at rest in "Panama" file out of the basement door and take a gag bow. If you get the football team to take the bow, suddenly doing the play is cool and the whole damn school will show up to see it. Box office goes up. Everybody is happy.

[mominator]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 10:00am

Well I did not read all the posts to this one, but I had to add Anything Goes. Way fun to do and still funny today!
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[MusicaleDiva]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 10:13am

I find myself wanting to say HONK... there's some funny parts in it.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 2:06pm

All of these are really good suggestions, you might also wanna look at HARVEY, AH, WILDERNESS!, THE MOUSETRAP, or THE RAINMAKER. If you have a REALLY good group, you could look into HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES by John Guare or RECKLESS by Craig Lucas

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 3:08pm

It's too bad you don't think you could pull off "Noises Off". It's is hysterical.
As for "An Inspector Calls", thats not really a comedy, and it has a very small cast and you need three excellent male actors.
If you want something more traditional, go for something like Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple".

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 3:57pm

Thanks for all the suggestions so far, I'm looking them all up online right now.

The two comedies I have been in at the school are Harvey and Rumors. We have about 4 or 5 guys for next year and a limitless amount of girls trying out. So I'll tell my director about some of these. Thanks!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 4:23pm

We did "Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got The Will?". I played Buford (the daddy)

It is about this family from a small town in teh Texas Hill Country.. VERY disfunctional, who come together when the patriarch (Buford) is dying from a series of strokes. It is a dark comedy, obviously, but with some HILARIOUS moments and some very touching ones too.

All of the characters are extremely wacky, disfunctional, and fun to play

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/2/05 at 11:26pm

I was bored, did some searching, and I found my very first BWW post.


Woohoo, I sure started off with a bang, huh?

[pab]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 12:06am

Another Simon that you might consider is "The Good Doctor". It's Neil Simon meets Anton Chekhov but it's very funny.

[PramsAclams]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 12:27am

Monk Ferris' "Don't Tell Mother" is hilarious! You should do that.

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 12:28am

Murder mystery comedy?

It Could Be Anyone of Us by Alan Acykbourn would be perfect! My high school did it when I was a freshman. I wasn't in it but I saw it and it was wonderful.

[maybethistime]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 12:35am

You might want to think about "A Flea in her Ear", "Picasso at the Lipin Agile", "Seeason's Greetings", or "Complete History of America, Abridged" (about "America", it is HILARIOUS - I have never laughed so hard in MY LIFE- and extremly easy to produce as it requires minimal settings (counld be a blank stage), pretty simple, every-prop-room-has-'em props, and costumes are unnessisary - ive seen it mostly done with kids in colored shirts and jeans, or had shirts made w/ their names or the logo, etc.)

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 12:37am

Just so all of you know, she posted this in June for her to choose her Fall play.

So it has already passed.

But keep suggesting anyway, I guess.

Updated On: 1/3/05 at 12:37 AM

[maybethistime]

Posted: 1/3/05 at 12:40am

OOPS! wasnt really paying attention! awww, priesty, so sentimental!!!