Musicals with a Narrator Character
Musicals with a Narrator Character
#1Musicals 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.
#2Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:30amInto the Woods
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
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#2Musicals 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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Wynbish
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#4Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:37am
Blood Brothers
Evita
Sunset Boulevard ( except he dies at the beginning )
Updated On: 7/8/13 at 01:37 AM
blaxx
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#5Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:38amOnce On This Island
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#6Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:40amCabaret
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#8Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:41amEvita
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#9Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 1:56am...are you hitting on me, broadway guy? What's kinky?
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
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#11Musicals 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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#12Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 2:41am^ Wynbish actually brought it up :)
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
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#13Musicals 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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#15Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 4:46amThis 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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#16Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:23amI 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.
#17Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:26amUrinetown
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#18Musicals 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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#20Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:40amIn 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.
#21Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:47amHuck in Big River
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#22Musicals with a Narrator Character
Posted: 7/8/13 at 8:53am
Could Teyve be considered a narrator?
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#23Musicals 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.
#24Musicals 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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