Help! Need Comedic plays!
Help! Need Comedic plays!
diva007
Stand-by Joined: 10/22/04
#0Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:12pm
I am on the board for a theatre and we need a comedy to fill a slot in the season. It has to be a big moneymaker(something well known or something that will we can market well).
Suggestions PLease!
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#1re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:16pm
Noises Off!
Nunsense
Although it's a bit dated, I love "Same Time, Next Year"
Rather bitterweet, but "Driving Miss Daisy"
Do we really need another production of "Steel Magnolias?"
#2re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:17pm
dinner at eight
the royal family
stage door
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:17pm
Crimes of the Heart
The House of Blue Leaves
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Updated On: 2/16/05 at 12:17 PM
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#4re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:19pm
If you've got the budget and a dynamite actress, "Auntie Mame."
diva007
Stand-by Joined: 10/22/04
#5re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:24pm
It has to be a straight play, or a play "with music". We have recently done Noises Off, Nunsense, Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart, and Same time next year.
We are in a bit of a Pickle@!
seymour krelborn
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#6re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:31pm
Psycho Beach Party by Charles Busch
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:44pm
Charley's Aunt
Arsenic & Old Lace
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#8re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:46pm
Play It Again, Sam
The Women
Harvey
The Lady's Not for Burning
Black Comedy
Blithe Spirit
#9re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:03pm
PLAZA SUITE
THE ODD COUPLE
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
LIFE WITH FATHER
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN
MORNINGS AT SEVEN
AUNTIE MAME
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#10re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:51pm
SCAPIN
Many versions of this play, but I recommend the version written by Bill Irwin and Mark O'Donnell. An hilarious farce. It's not that well-known, but Bill Irwin is pretty well-known among the theater community. Definitely market-able and an especially fun play. Includes a chase/dance sequence at the end.
For more info, check out http://www.dramatists.com
Updated On: 2/16/05 at 03:51 PM
#11re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:53pm
not CRIMES OF THE HEART! I dispise that play!!!!!!
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife - hysterical
The Goat can also be very funny, but it's more of a drama.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#12re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:56pmGo with a great dark comedy, like AUNT DAN AND LEMON.
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#13re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:21pm
If your group is really daring...."The Ritz!"
Gawd! I love that movie!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:53pm
"not CRIMES OF THE HEART! I dispise that play!!!!!!"
What's wrong with Crimes of the Heart?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#15re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:56pmI'm not a CRIMES OF THE HEART fan, either. Many, many flaws. How did it win the Pulitzer Prize?
#16re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:01pm
Moon Over Buffalo
or classics like
Importence of Being Earnest
or
Much Ado About Nothing
"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
#18re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:04pmhahaha thats one of my favorite plays. Its hysterical esp with the right cast.
"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
#19re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:06pm
MOON OVER BUFFALO is lacking something ver essential for a farce-comedy.
I stick with AUNT DAN AND LEMON or MORNINGS AT 7
#20re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:07pmI'm partial to Arscenic and Old Lace myself
"I am special, I am special! Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!" ---Louisa, The Fantasticks
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Intolerant of intolerance.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#21re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:45pm
"How did it win the Pulitzer Prize?"
Because Beth Henley combined absurdist comedy and drama so well.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#22re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:02pmwhat about a day in the life of Joe egg? or the complete works of shakespeare abridged.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#24re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 8:35pmWhat was absurdist about CRIMES OF THE HEART? It was a straight forward romantic comedy. We're not talking Ionesco here.
#25re: Help! Need Comedic plays!
Posted: 2/16/05 at 9:25pm
lend me a tenor
charley's aunt
noises off
inspecting carol
taming of the shrew
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
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