I dread the day high schools are able to do...

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I dread the day high schools are able to do...

Posted: 6/30/07 at 5:58pm

There are some shows that have not been released yet that I cannot WAIT for high schools to start doing. And by "cannot wait", I mean I look forward to seeing because they will be a mess. And I'm talking about your average high school, not one that is filthy rich and puts on amazing Broadway caliber productions.

Frankly, I can't wait until Wicked is available and schools start doing that. Girls will kill each other to be Elphaba or Galinda, the riffs during Defying Gravity will be amazing, and the faulty techniques they will attempt to use to make Elphaba fly are sure to become YouTube gold!

What other shows will be entertaining to see at the high school level?

Updated On: 6/30/07 at 05:58 PM

#2

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:03pm

Grey Gardens

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#3

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:04pm

Rent.










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Wait...

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#4

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:05pm

Hehe! A little Little Edie!

How about GYPSY?

Wait. It's already happened. And, OH, is it dreadful!

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#5

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:07pm

Legally Blonde. Can you imagine the superslutty costuming 5 years from now? The should have Chris Hansen in the audience just in case...

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:07pm

I feel like Elphaba will be the new "Eponine" - the part that girls will poison each others drinking water before auditions to play.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:08pm

I doubt a HS will ever attempt GREY GARDENS.

Just like High Schools don't attempt Passion, A Little Night Music, Sunday In The Park With George, etc. Though I'm sure a school might have tried one of those shows - it's VERY rare.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:12pm

It was a joke...

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#9

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:12pm

It's still entertaining to think of the possibilities.

How about The Lion King? Mmm, those puppets.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:14pm

RENT. I've brought this up with friends several times over the past few months. MTI already has scores prepared, so it's only a matter of time.

I can already imagine all of the PVC-pipe sets, and malfunctioning projectors everywhere.

#11

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:17pm

BROOKLYN!

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:18pm

No one should have to be subjected to a high school-quality version of that!

...on second thought... never mind.

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#13

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:19pm

High School edition of Spring Awakening...

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:25pm

my high school did Sunday and Gypsy both were incredible... but i went to a performing arts high school.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:26pm

Spelling Bee: In an effort to cast “as many students” as possible, they’ll have a chorus of extra spellers onstage; additionally, they’ll have separate actors playing the roles of the spellers’ parents instead of the normal doubling. And since this show can be done on a shoestring budget (the school can use what they already have for the set and people can wear their own clothes as costumes) expect lots of suckage.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:27pm

Haha. That's exactly what would happen. I love when they put choruses into the show.

I saw a Little Shop production with this giant chorus number for the opening, and then they never really came back.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:31pm

yea imagine the girls who would play glinda and elphaba, youtube gold indeed.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:32pm

Oh and just think the more conservative high schools will censor "My Unfortunate Eruption". They’ll either cut the song altogether or change the lyrics to something worse than "Boobs and Tush".

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:38pm

They’ll either cut the song altogether or change the lyrics to something worse than "Boobs and Tush".

I've never seen a high school production of A Chorus Line- do they really use "boobs and tush" in Dance: Ten, Looks: Three?? Wow.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:41pm

I think it's supposed to be "this and that" but some schools think they have better ideas

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#21

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:44pm

Anakela, I'll never seen one either, but someone has posted on this board that they saw a high school (or middle school) production that used "boobs and tush".

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:49pm

Hee, thanks- boobs and tush- that's just all sorts of funny and wrong wrapped into one!

#23

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 6:57pm

Avenue Q: High School Edition....WHY?

Oh, and a girl at my school sang "Dance: 10, Looks: 3" and they edited it to "this and that"

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#24

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 7:06pm

The school versions of RENT and Avenue Q sadden me to no end; it's almost as bad as having high schools perform High School Musical.

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Posted: 6/30/07 at 7:28pm

I agree with Anakela. I shudder when I think of high schools doing Spring Awakening. Rent too.

High schools should stick to Rogers & Hammerstein and stuff. Ok, I'll let then branch out to Pippin on occassion.