Highschool Spring Play
Highschool Spring Play
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Joined: 12/31/69
#0Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 6:50am
Anyone have any suggestions for a highschool dramatic play to be done in the spring. Preferably with a cast of 15 people or so, can be less. Also, needs to be somewhat affordable, maybe minimum props/sets/costumes.
Thanks.
btw, has anyone ever heard of The Lottery? Is it any good?
Amneris
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#1re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 7:34amTo Gillian On Her 37th Birthday has about 10 people in it. It's very cheap.. Wonderful show =*D
Unknown User
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#2re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 7:47am
try "Love, Death, and the Prom" by Jon Jory
and The Lottery is a great play, but you may have trouble getting it approved... my highschool wouldn't approve it. Get a copy and read it and make a decision based on your reading, not on someone elses... good luck! :)
Bwaychick84
Chorus Member Joined: 9/29/04
#3re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 10:47amOur Town is always a high school fav. You can do it with almost no set and minimal costumes. I don't know exactly how many people are in it, it is a rather large cast for a play though. The added bonus of Our Town is of course many people know it, so you'll get a great turn out.
#4re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 11:00am
This play might be a little difficult for some High School students to understand but it's a good play with a good size cast:
Landford Wilson's "The Rimers of Eldritch"
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#5re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 11:47amI'll be truthful. Our Town is a fabulous play, but such a drag to do. I don't believe there's enough comedic relief. No one wants to leave the theatre crying their eyes out, which is what happened when I played Wally.
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#6re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 11:53am
"Well, what I heard ain't fit for talk." HAHA....oh, the memories.
For Rimers to be done correctly (in which we did not) you need a girl who can actually play a girl with a disability. And then theres the whole rape/murder thing.... I'm surprised our school let us do it.
BlueEyedKate
Understudy Joined: 10/26/04
#7re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 12:22pm
Yeah...I love 'Rimers'...but all too often, the play is done extremely poorly; also, in terms of what I've seen from high school actors, it may be too difficult to pull off in terms of sheer acting abillity.
'Our Town' is also entirely too overdone; but then again, most things performed commonly for high schoolers are overdone.
#8re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 1:26pm
If you have like mostly girls (like most high schools sadly)
The Childrens Hour
Both, even though soooo many schools are doing it
The Laramie Project.
Also:
Playing for Time
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Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 7:21pmLast night of Ballyhoo is a gem....small cast 3m +4f...but could be doubled....I've done The Lottery...one act and complicated.
#10re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 7:26pmWe're putting on "Young and Fair" right now. I think it's a cast of 10 girls. So, if you're low on guys, that might be a good one to do.
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#11re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 8:51pm
FORTINBRAS, by Lee Blessing. I've met Lee on a few occasions and he really is a blessing. It's all the Hamlet characters plus two others and takes place immediately after Hamlet dies. It's such a funny play with a great message, and also some satire (if you want to get political).
But not really a female oriented, even though Ophelia and Gertrude have some good lines.
#12re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 9:09pmI've read the lottery. It's a great play. One of my favorites.
#13re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 9:32pmRumours or Lend Me a Tenor. The high school in my area did both of those.
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#15re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 11:27pmYAGMCB!!!
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#17re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 12:02amoh scrath YAGMCB its not dramatic
momtobwwannabee
Understudy Joined: 9/10/04
#18re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 12:27amWhat about 12 Angry Women or 12 Angry Men or 12 Angry Jurors? I know it is running in NY now, but it is available. A high school just ran two casts (men in 1950's and women current). It was pretty cool
#19re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 1:25am
You Can't Take it With You, maybe
I second Our Town - my fave play.
#20re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 2:09amI would say 10 Little Indians, it's real good show for about that size of a cast, easy set but it can be made real complex, costumes are pretty easy too, and it's a croud pleaser.
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#21re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 12:02pm
Our Town's your favorite play, Munks? Interesting...
Anything by Christie sounds like it would work. The Mousetrap is good too.
#22re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 5:07pmThe lottery is pretty complecated, try the Diary of Anne Frank, that goes well with high school or you can do "Never see another butterfly"
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#23re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 5:19pm
momtobwwannabe... i was 12 Angry Jurors last spring at our school. it was really phenomenal! i loved it. it was 5 girls and 7 guys. i loved it so much!
Philip Bosco recently did a reading of Our Town at my highschool with a cast of people in a town nearby where he resides. We definitely wouldn't do it because it didn't go over well at all.
We did Rumours 2 Fall plays ago, when I was a sophomore. I'm a senior now.
Thanks for all the help! i'm gonna look all of those shows up!
momtobwwannabee
Understudy Joined: 9/10/04
#24re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 5:24pmIf you like the 12 Angrys, I think you would love Ten Little Indians! Good luck.
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