Help Me Pick A Show To Direct!

[missthemountains]

Posted: 10/17/11 at 1:51am

Hi all!

I'm going on an interview next week for a student group at a pretty big name college here that if I get it could be a really big deal for me. However, I need your help. I need a show to submit to direct!

The group is looking for a show that people have heard of, is relatively inexpensive, and not inappropriate. So far I'm thinking of submitting Blood Brothers, Songs For A New World and possibly Company (the only reason I submitted this is because in the email that was sent out, they wrote that the company was thinking of doing Assassins, and I thought if Assassins is okay, why not Company?)

Also this group does not cut actors from auditioning so it should leave room for a pretty big cast. I also don't think they have a lot of money for a full orchestra, so something that is not ridiculously complicated in terms of music would be nice too.

Thanks!

[missthemountains]

Posted: 10/17/11 at 1:54am

Also, the only other musical they have done in the past is Guys And Dolls, if that helps. They have done dramas before (last year they did Lysistrata) but the group seems to be in favor of doing a musical of some sort, but a play with music could work too I suppose (which is why I submitted Blood Brothers).

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:40am

Blood Brothers is not a play with music.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/17/11 at 5:53am

You also have to pick a show that is right for YOU to direct -- and we cannot do that for you.

Rights and Royalties for musicals are likely going to shock your group if they have never done a musical. It's going to run EASILY between 1500 (very low) and 3K dollars. It doesn't matter if its a student group.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 10/17/11 at 12:15pm

Children of Eden

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:08pm

If you're not cutting anyone I can't see how you would do Assassins or Company. The show will need to work with your directing style and taste, the space/venue, the available talent (if there is any), the budget for scenery/costumes/orchestra/lighting/sound/hair/wigs, and how it would sell---what is your audience/subscription base like? Will it recoup its investment?

[B3TA07]

Posted: 10/18/11 at 1:19am

Pippin.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/20/11 at 1:12pm

Pardon My English

Big cast, four solid leads (two male, two female), great songs, very funny in that goofy Gershwin musical comedy way, rarely done, book problems but still has more than enough going for it to make it work

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/20/11 at 1:13pm

Will it recoup its investment?

That's not a real question, is it? Do college student theatre groups usually operate in those terms?