Mama I'm A Big Girl Now

My best friend and I are considering doing this song for our school's talent show (as a welcome break from all the Christina Aguilera wannabes and the next "big" emo band). We were wondering if anyone thinks it possible to do it as a duet (Me on Tracy, her on Penny and split Amber's parts between us) and not have anyone onstage singing the mother's parts, but possibly find a way to have that bit of the recording playing and, in that way make it less like the show but more like the average teenage girl's lament. Any opinions?

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maybe get another person to play ALL the mothers? I think you'd have a tech disaster trying to sing with a recording...otherwise, I'd say one of you play the daughters, the other, the mothers...

Hmm we'll look into finding someone to play all the mothers. I'd love to do the full 6 ppl but when it comes to doing a talent show (especially at our school where people just don't appreciate theatre) everyone wants to be the star. Finding four other people who can sing and wouldn't object to being one of a group will be tough. If anyone is interesting in seeing the way we arranged it and offering suggestions just PM me.

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when me and my friends did it, we just had three people come on stage (one guy in drag of course... hilarious!) and they just did the "Don't contradict me..." and so on and they also did the "Please?" "No!" "Mother!" and then they walked off, and we just did the 'stop, don't, know' part by ourselves, and just to mothers in general.

May my Penny girl rest in peace.

i love penny. shes so ditzy!

If you can't find another gal to do Amber's part, or if you and your friend don't want to share the spotlight, I say go with the spirit of the show and get 2 of your guy friends (dressed as women) to perform Edna & Trudy's part. It'll probably be a hit and the most talked about number!! Although in truth, you and your friend might get lost in the sauce depending on how good/bad the guys are!!!

I think you can definetly do it. Someone I know performed it as a solo, and it worked brilliantly. She just sang it to the audience. There was no mother part or anything. And it was great.

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