Plays with all-teenaged cast?

[aces25]

Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:01pm

Do you know of any plays or musicals with all-teenaged casts? 

[CorkySt.Clair]

Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:05pm

13 comes to mind right away

 

[non-stop26]

Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:06pm

13

[MCfan2]

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]

Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:16pm

For plays, there's THIS IS OUR YOUTH.

 

[jbird5]

Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:25pm

Runaways.

[aces25]

Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:49pm

Teenaged actors! 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:53pm

Was Merrily We Roll Along all teenagers or just young adults?

[AC126748]

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.

[JBroadway]

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]

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. 

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

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...

[asmith0307]

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. 

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/30/17 at 2:38pm

Baltimore requires at least one adult character (Dean Hernandez).

Updated On: 8/30/17 at 02:38 PM

[jbird5]

Posted: 8/30/17 at 4:59pm

Generation Me which was part of NYMF could be done with an all teen cast.

[asmith0307]

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!