Can someone help me pleeeease
Can someone help me pleeeease
#1Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 9:24pm
Hey guys
do any of you know of any scary/campy stage plays (in the sense of 80s slasher films or 50s B movies)
All help greatly appreciated
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 9:45pmThere is Evil Dead or were you looking for straight plays?
#2re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 9:45pmWould love our company to do evil dead but it needs t be a play grrr
#3re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 9:47pmNever saw it on stage, but there is always Deathtrap.
#4re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 9:49pm
nvm
those are a few popular titles, the yahoo theatre directory is very helpful:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theater/?o=a
oh wow, ok, forget about the yahoo directory, looks like it's pretty much useless for plays. My first thought would be to look at script rental sites like samuel french
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#5re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 9:51pmOh of course, why didn't i think of that
#6re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 9:56pm
How about the Lieutenant of Inishmore?
Edit: or Psycho Beach Party
"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
#7re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 10:01pmPillowman?
#8re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 10:10pmLook into Charles Busch's work, his stuff is very campy and usually borrows from old horror/B-Movie/film noir stuff
"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
slimandslam
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
#9re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/4/08 at 11:35pm
Charles Ludlam's plays were also full of camp, and sometimes made knowing use of schlocky movie conventions.
ETA: I'm thinking of Hot Ice and The Artificial Jungle, which admittedly are not the two plays one first thinks of when one thinks of Charles Ludlam.
Updated On: 4/4/08 at 11:35 PM
bkonbroadway
Understudy Joined: 9/11/07
#10re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/5/08 at 12:15amThe Mystery of Irma Vep....Charles Ludlam and Everett Quinten...possibly moving off-Broadway
slimandslam
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
#11re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/5/08 at 1:09amIrma Vep is a stitch, but it's more Victorian-penny-dreadful-schlock than 50s-B-movie-schlock. Might be what sonanddanceman is looking for, though, you never know. (It's a two-actor quick-change play, if you're wondering.)
#12re: Can someone help me pleeeease
Posted: 4/5/08 at 8:04amYou guys are stars thank you for your help XXXXXx
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