Please Help! Community Theater Decision!- Page 2

[BwayLeadman]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 9:29pm

The Wiz?

[jimmirae]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 9:51pm

I gotta go with "No No Nanette" on this one too. I believe it shall render the best creative group success in your idiom.

[Horton]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 10:05pm

We have just done The Wiz so we are not keen on doing it again.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 12:25am

You know your audience better thanwe do, but if they loved 42ND STREET they will probably love NO NO NANETTE. I just saw a local music theatre school do this show and it remains a delight in spite of a silly story (but if played seriously as farce it can be funny.)

THE BOY FRIEND starts off with a fun first act but gradually loses steam. (It parodies NANETTE quite a bit, but the score isn't nearly as enjoyable.) MILLIE is even thinner with less of a score. You won't win over many audiences with MUILLIE unless you have a really dynamite cast and a director who can stage it briskly.

LI'L ABNER is loaded with a lot of cornball humour but many of the political targets may baffle audiences now. Great score, though. So does SWEET CHARITY butit is still a problematic show. Audiences respond to the title but the book has some awkward sequences.

Of the 5 you listed, NO NO NANETTE is probably the best choice.

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 12:32am

IF you don't have one amazingly talented female to play those starring roles in Charity and Millie I'd say NO NO NANETTE too.

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 12:37am

Someone said Guys and Dolls, which is a great choice. Or Anything Goes.

[Horton]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 7:56am

We just did Anything Goes, but thank you!

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:13am

Please don't do Guys and Dolls, everyone does it....

Kiss Me Kate is always a good choice.

[DirtyRottenGirl]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 2:04pm

I have done No No Nanette and this was my least favorite show I have ever done. I would stay away from it. My suggestions are Kiss Me Kate, Seussical, and Millie. If you said you have done any of these im sorry i missed it.