Highschool Spring Play
Highschool Spring Play
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#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"
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#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
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
Broadway Star 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.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#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.
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
#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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/17/04 at 11:27pmYAGMCB!!!
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: Highschool Spring Play
Posted: 11/18/04 at 12:02amoh scrath YAGMCB its not dramatic
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
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.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#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.
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#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"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#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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