Musicals with a Narrator Character

#1

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:29am

I work at a children's theatre and I do a show with Special Needs individuals. We did "Once Upon a Mattress"...a shortened version...and I was the minstrel. It worked very well with myself being a narrator type character. What other shows have a similar character.

I can think of Pippin and Pacific Overtures.

#2

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:30am

Into the Woods

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#3

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:30am

Sir Robin beat me to it. Oh and yes it was a little kinky

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#4

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:31am

Joseph...

#5

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:37am

Blood Brothers

Evita

Sunset Boulevard ( except he dies at the beginning )

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#6

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:38am

Once On This Island

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#7

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:40am

Cabaret

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#8

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:41am

Godspell Junior.

#9

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:41am

Evita

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#10

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:56am

...are you hitting on me, broadway guy? What's kinky?

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#11

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 2:22am

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

#12

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 2:23am

Really? No one's brought it up yet? Okay, I'll be that guy...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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#13

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 2:41am

^ Wynbish actually brought it up :)

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#14

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 3:29am

You know what would be good, and no one has brought it up:

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat.


Just putting that out there.

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#15

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 3:40am

The Drowsy Chaperone

#16

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 4:46am

This is a stretch, but the characters of Jersey Boys act as narrators (each member of the Four Seasons) at different points in the show.

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#17

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:23am

I saw a community production of "Treasure Island" about 4 years ago and I remember that the leading male (who's name has slipped my mind over the years) at several times had long monologues explaining everything going on, so I guess he could be considered a narrator.

#18

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:26am

Urinetown

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#19

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:30am

If you're not limiting it to a single character ...

The chorus in Sweeney Todd, the chorus (trio) in Little Shop of Horrors.

All of the characters in Ragtime narrate their own lives.

And of course, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Nobody's mentioned that one yet.

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#20

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:35am

Rocky Horror?

#21

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:40am

In TOMMY, tommy acts as a narrator in the first act, Sind there are also some narartor type songs in the second act like Sally Simpson.

#22

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:47am

Huck in Big River

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#23

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:53am

Could Teyve be considered a narrator?

#24

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:58am

Candide

In City of Angels and Kiss of the Spiderwoman, the stories within the story are narrated by Stine and Molina.

#25

Musicals with a Narrator Character

Posted: 7/8/13 at 9:04am

Tevye definitely narrates the opening scene, then steps into the story. He does his monologues throughout the story to "God," but I don't think he ever returns to narration after the opening number (Tradition).

Still, he counts.

Huck in Big River goes in and out of narrating and slipping into his own story. He does it throughout the show.

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