Plays for High School Student

[mi7269]

Plays for High School Student#0

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:40am

What are good comedies for high school student to put up? Something along the line of Rumors???

[WickedOne2]

re: Plays for High School Student#1

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:47am

When I was in high school we did a little know Neil Simon play called "Fools" about a town cursed with stupidity. Hysterical!! I played the female lead.

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[mi7269]

re: Plays for High School Student#2

Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:56am

Not another SImon play like Rumors, too boring

[Candleshoe2]

re: Plays for High School Student#3

Posted: 6/29/05 at 12:03pm

"Don't Drink the Water"
Updated On: 6/29/05 at 12:03 PM

[alphieboy]

re: Plays for High School Student#4

Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:14pm

"Fools" is a good comedy. As well as "Arsenic and Old Lace".

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[Hairspraydoll]

re: Plays for High School Student#5

Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:29pm

Noises Off
Lend Me a Tenor is absolutely hilarious! Some minor things to get approved in it though.

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[peach]

re: Plays for High School Student#6

Posted: 6/29/05 at 4:41pm

I second Noises Off...hysterical.

Can definitely be done by a high school with funny performers and a director with a sracastic sense of humor!
Updated On: 6/29/05 at 04:41 PM

[TabooPhan1]

re: Plays for High School Student#7

Posted: 6/29/05 at 5:05pm

I have to disagree about Simon's plays (especially Rumors) being boring. It's my favorite production I've ever done. I think it's hysterical...

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[Teeny Todd]

re: Plays for High School Student#8

Posted: 6/29/05 at 7:35pm

"Barefoot in the Park" is extremely fun to do. If you have a more advanced theatre program, I recommend "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" by Steve Martin or "Savage in Limbo" by John Patrick Shanley. Both great plays.

[arykahmarye]

re: Plays for High School Student#9

Posted: 6/29/05 at 8:07pm

We recently performed "You Can't Take It With You" at my high school, and it was hilarious, good fun. The cast all enjoyed it, and the audience loved it.

I can't remember the author, but "Black Comedy", if you can find it, is another funny one. It requires some skilled people to work lights, but the cast is simple and the show is funny.

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[JohnnysGurl]

re: Plays for High School Student#10

Posted: 6/29/05 at 8:11pm

a funny thing happened on the way to the forum

[star2be]

re: Plays for High School Student#11

Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:24pm

I saw fools done by a professional company last year it was hilarious!!!

[Unknown User]

re: Plays for High School Student#12

Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:18am

Dracula-- Just make sure that your Lucy wears underwear and could at least pretend to act.

[wickedrentq]

re: Plays for High School Student#13

Posted: 7/1/05 at 6:19pm

I also second You Can't Take It With You and Lend Me A Tenor, my school did both, very funny!

We also did Harvey...I dunno, it seems like it shouldn't be for HS but I was production assistant...and we had sooo much fun in that show. It is quite long and needs to be shrunken, and might not have appealed to audiences so much but I really love it. Probably being biased, the two above prob are a little more appropriate for High school in terms of at least appeal.

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[jflynn]

re: Plays for High School Student#14

Posted: 7/2/05 at 12:43am

Updated On: 12/31/09 at 12:43 AM

[noahrp3]

re: Plays for High School Student#15

Posted: 7/2/05 at 1:19am

a one act play by Steve Martin called WASP. if you go to samuel french, you should find it. its hysterical!

[Liz_Bennet]

re: Plays for High School Student#17

Posted: 7/2/05 at 10:47am

Our Town is a classic that is very popular in high schools. Some Shakespeare comedies can work as well, especially the "ensemble" ones with lots of good parts like Midsummer Night's Dream.

I would steer clear of Greek tragedy. When I was in high school, we tried Antigone and it wasn't very popular with anyone, even the large number of people studying Latin and Greek.

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[AngelofAvenueB]

re: Plays for High School Student#18

Posted: 7/2/05 at 10:51am

if you want a comedy, try "the curious savage." we did it last spring at our high school and it was hilarious. the ending is also very sweet. "the miser" is also a good bet.

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[berenger4079]

re: Plays for High School Student#19

Posted: 7/2/05 at 12:53pm

the problem with our town by wilder is that to many high school audiences it is too boring. also the problem with shakespeare is that unless the cast is open to an analytical approach to the production, a lot of the true greatness of shakespeare would be lost. with that said, i would suggest doing the play star-spangled girl from simon. its a 3 person cast, and the characters work well together

[singinswinga]

re: Plays for High School Student#20

Posted: 7/2/05 at 2:33pm

You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

I know this groc'ry clerk...

[badroit]

re: Plays for High School Student#21

Posted: 7/2/05 at 6:01pm

I once produced an "Evening of Melodrama" that the kids enjoyed. I bookended a couple of long one-acts with some period songs as an interlude.

[MyNameInLights]

re: Plays for High School Student#22

Posted: 7/2/05 at 6:09pm

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[Broadway_Bound_Star]

re: Plays for High School Student#23

Posted: 7/2/05 at 6:21pm

OUr High School did Marvins Room and it was AWESOME..but.. of corse we had to edit some things. LOL

[QuiteSo]

re: Plays for High School Student#24

Posted: 7/2/05 at 6:25pm

If done well, Shakespeare does work. I did A Midsummer Night's Dream in 11th grade, and the audiences ate it up. It was pretty hard for even the cast to keep from laughing.

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[Broadwaygirl22]

re: Plays for High School Student#25

Posted: 7/2/05 at 6:35pm

My school recently did "Seussical the Musical". It was so much fun to be in it. We cut the song A Day For the Cat in the Hat and part of Havin a Hunch. It's a cool show to perform.

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