Help! Need Comedic plays!

[diva007]

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]

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?"

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:17pm

dinner at eight
the royal family
stage door

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:17pm

Crimes of the Heart
The House of Blue Leaves

Updated On: 2/16/05 at 12:17 PM

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:19pm

If you've got the budget and a dynamite actress, "Auntie Mame."

[diva007]

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]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:31pm

Psycho Beach Party by Charles Busch
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:44pm

Charley's Aunt
Arsenic & Old Lace

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 12:46pm

Play It Again, Sam
The Women
Harvey
The Lady's Not for Burning
Black Comedy
Blithe Spirit

[WISHIHADATONY]

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

[Joshua488]

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

[munkustrap178]

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.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:56pm

Go with a great dark comedy, like AUNT DAN AND LEMON.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:21pm

If your group is really daring...."The Ritz!"

Gawd! I love that movie!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:53pm

"not CRIMES OF THE HEART! I dispise that play!!!!!!"

What's wrong with Crimes of the Heart?

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:56pm

I'm not a CRIMES OF THE HEART fan, either. Many, many flaws. How did it win the Pulitzer Prize?

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:01pm

Moon Over Buffalo

or classics like
Importence of Being Earnest
or
Much Ado About Nothing

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:03pm

I do not like MOON OVER BUFFALO at all.

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:04pm

hahaha thats one of my favorite plays. Its hysterical esp with the right cast.

[melissa errico fan]

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

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:07pm

I'm partial to Arscenic and Old Lace myself

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:45pm

"How did it win the Pulitzer Prize?"

Because Beth Henley combined absurdist comedy and drama so well.

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:02pm

what about a day in the life of Joe egg? or the complete works of shakespeare abridged.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 8:35pm

What was absurdist about CRIMES OF THE HEART? It was a straight forward romantic comedy. We're not talking Ionesco here.

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 9:25pm

lend me a tenor
charley's aunt
noises off
inspecting carol
taming of the shrew