Future Overdone High School Musicals — Page 3

I'd be suprised to see Rent done in a high school.

I agree with the majority here. The jukebox musicals, Millie, Hairspray and BatB.

Disney is a bit of a pain to work with -- they require a number of specific procedures to be followed that affect the advertising of the show, the costume and set design, and they even restrict you from selling Disney merchandise at the theater! Nevertheless, high schools are lining up left and right to do Beauty and the Beast and Aida, and even the most mediocre productions are selling out. It's not going away, nor is the Les Miz concert version.

I can think of a number of schools that can do justice to Wicked. Honestly, you'd think it was Shakespeare the way some of you talk about it. It's no more technically daunting that Beauty and the Beast or Peter Pan, or at least it need not be. And I've already heard a couple of teenage girls sing the hell out of Defying Gravity -- so it's not like it's too difficult musically. For better or worse, it is going to be done everywhere when it is released.

I also feel that shows like Mamma Mia and All Shook Up will be very popular. Urinetown will take some time, but it should get a repectable number of productions. Rent, meanwhile, is not going to be done by huge numbers of high schools regardless of how many high school students love it.

interesting topic....

I know they have or will have high school versions of shows like Les Miz and Phantom, but I still don't think time will make these shows any less difficult.

Where as I can see things like Beauty and the Beast, Millie, maybe..., juke boxers,

Spelling Bee, maybe?
Edited version of DRS?
Spamalot

Urinetown is controlled by MTI and currently restricted, though the first productions nationwide have already been announced. Word is that it will be available generally sometime next Spring or so, but don't quote me on that.

I could see Urinetown being one. I already know of a school who MIGHT do it and the rights practically just came out. It seems like something a high school level could pull off.

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Honk by Stiles and Drewe is very popular in high schools. However, it is quite a difficult score. I'm not sure how much they have scaled it down for the Junior version. It's a lovely tale with an important message. If you don't know it, check out the Wichita cd, it's got some of the best songs written for the stage.

Millie.

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I teach at a small high school in the midwest, and a lot of schools our size have been doing Honk! and Seussical. I hear there's a lot of interest in High School Musical, too. I imagine we'll see a lot of that for the next few years.

Despite how many people I would kill to play the Lady of the Lake (exaggeration!), Spamalot in a high school would suck.

Since the majority of people involved in hs theatre are girls and there are 6 guys and 1 girl, and the rest are in the chorus. This wouldn't sit very well and we'd have American teenage accents (or the ones who try come out with Australian accents). And there aren't many teenage girls that can pull off a good Lady of the Lake.

Seeing a 16-year-old male play the French Taunter would make me cry myself to sleep.

Hands Down Wicked.

I can see HSM becomming big

All Shook Up, I think, would be an awesome High School Musical.

Spelling Bee will be done by community theatres

Fame I think is pretty good for High Schools. But Wicked OH MY GOSH how bad that would be. I would just love to see the scene done in high school when all the Monkeys fly around.

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High school students shouldn't be able to touch the Phantom of the opera with ten-foot pole, unless it's a drama school with really well classically trained student. otherwise, they should stick to Wicked, but even that is challenging...