Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Plays with all-teenaged cast?
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
#1Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:01pm
Do you know of any plays or musicals with all-teenaged casts?
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#4Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:07pm
Teenage actors or teenage characters? If the latter, there's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Updated On: 8/29/17 at 05:07 PM
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
jbird5
Broadway Star Joined: 12/20/15
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#8Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:53pm
Was Merrily We Roll Along all teenagers or just young adults?
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#9Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 6:14pm
dramamama611 said: "Was Merrily We Roll Along all teenagers or just young adults?
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The original production was cast with young adults (18-30 range), although there were some younger teenagers in the cast. The youngest cast member, Abby Pogrebin, was sixteen.
Hazelwood Jr High by Rob Urbaniti comes to mind.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#10Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 7:22pm
Dog Sees God (it CAN be done with adults, but if I recall correctly, all the characters are teenaged). the musical Bare also features mostly teenagers, but it does require 3 or so actors to play adults.
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#11Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 8:30pm
The stage adaptation of The Outsiders features a predominantly teenage cast, with the exception of (I believe) two teachers who only appear briefly. They could be cast with older-looking teenagers easily.
#12Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 1:05pm
I have a musical in my files in which all but two of the characters are teens. It also has an all-female cast. I discarded this particular piece for a while, but now I'm thinking there could be something there after all.
Anyone who feels like reading it is more than welcome...
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asmith0307
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/14
#13Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 2:34pm
Depending on how deep you want to go with your content, I would also recommend looking at the plays that are coming out of the Big 10 Theatre Consortium. Personally, I worked on one of the first productions of Good Kids by Naomi Iizuka, and it is still one of my favorite shows I have done (when its done right). I have also been to a reading of Baltimore by Kristen Greenridge (I think). I don't know much about the recent ones. They are all written to be centered around young adults, and specifically provide roles for young women.
#14Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 2:38pm
Baltimore requires at least one adult character (Dean Hernandez).
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 8/30/17 at 02:38 PM
jbird5
Broadway Star Joined: 12/20/15
#15Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 4:59pm
Generation Me which was part of NYMF could be done with an all teen cast.
asmith0307
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/14
#16Plays with all-teenaged cast?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 7:55pm
It does? Oops! Its been a couple years now since I have seen it. Also, quite possible we did not actually use an adult. Good Kids definitely does not have any adults though!
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