Next Overdone Musical?

I have a feeling it's going to be Brooklyn.

CAN'T wait for that

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It's so going to be rent and everyone knows it!

I agree with Margo...Spelling Bee will be easy for low budget theaters to do.

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Maybe Brooklyn and Bee for smaller high schools, but I'd say Hairspray is most likely to be the next Seussical (I don't know about other areas... but EVERY high school around here did Seussical this year.) Hairspray's fairly simple and there's room for a large chorus.

my cousins school did seussical! it was really good though! lol, but another school did it after them in a town near by, it was weird. lol.

I think Hairspray will be a little bit harder to produce seeing as though it requires specific races for the characters and a black and white ensemble. High schools might find a way to get around this (how many West Side stories have we seen with clearly non-hispanic kids playing the Sharks becuase they have dark hair) but this show requires both many races. So, my vote goes to The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Cheap and fun.

Like I said before, Hairspray will be easy for the large high schools, like mine (which has well over 1,000 students and likes to do shows with a large ensemble.)

Bee will be popular with smaller high schools, or schools that allow students to be cut. Never, ever attempt to add a chorus to a show like Bee... I was in a production of Into the Woods where they added a large chorus and it was disasterous.

Wicked

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As for Wicked, I don't know... I can't think of any way to get past the flying in 'Defying Gravity'... and very few highschools can pull off flying (just a little bragging: mine did. ) But I suppose they could just have Elphaba stand on a box like they did in the Forbidden Broadway version and blow a fan in her face.

Yes, I also agree with Bee.

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Actually, I was thinking about this the other day... in comparison to the mega musicals of the 80s that really CAN'T be done by everyone and their brother, the shows this season are at least promising in the "viable for small theater companies" department. Only "Wicked" is out of reach for obvious technical reasons...

I could see lots of community theater/high school groups tackling within the next 10 years or so:
- 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (for reasons everyone's already listed.. it's the next "Charlie Brown", mark my words...)
- SPAMALOT (really isn't THAT technically demanding... they do "Into the Woods" ad nauseum, don't they?)
- DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (maybe not high school for some of the lyrics, but def. community theater
- LITTLE WOMEN (first, people know the book... second, it's a big FEMALE cast, which is always a plus...)
- Most of the jukebox musicals, actually. Providing the rights are actually released. Any tom, dick or harry could adapt GOOD VIBRATIONS, ALL SHOOK UP and MAMMA MIA!

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I'd say will WANT to. And every non-practically minded director will grab for the rights. But speaking of which, I betcha the rights will be pretty damn pricey for a while....

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