Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools- Page 2
Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#26re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:23amNot for main productions, but I know high school students that have taken on Last 5 Years as a final theatre project.
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#27re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:24amThat's actually cool, Plum. I think its a pretty terrible choice for a high school (outside of perhaps a Performing Arts school) but good for them for trying something different and daring. How many high school productions of GREASE can you sit through?
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#28re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:25amWell, they did that, too, a few years earlier. They like to mix it up- Company one year, Will Rogers' Follies another.
#29re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:26ami can't see any high school doing POTO, Dracula, or DOTV.
#30re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:28amTaboo
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BwayLeadman
Broadway Star Joined: 9/29/04
#31re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:29amThe shows that you say will NEVER be done, are the one's High School Musical "producers" are thinking of putting on.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#32re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:30am
BroadwayGirl107, Dreamgirls was done this past year at a private school in my area. There were two black girls in the cast an neither of them had a lead. Ha. Funny. And the Effie was real tiny. Ask Dietcherryemma about it.
#33re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:31amThey were all white? Were they at least in blackface?
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#34re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:32amI'm not sure which would be worse...
#35re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:33amWell if you're going to be offensive, be REALLY offensive I say.
Nath
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#36re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:33amI know a school that did Rocky Horror (rather illegally too i think)...
nodaybut2day2007
Featured Actor Joined: 5/29/05
#37re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:34amI know RHPS and Company have bothe been done, and my school is trying to do BARE next year.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#38re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:34amThey were all white. They just tweaked the lines a bit. I don't remember the character names, but one of the guys was sortof black.
#39re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:35amCould they cast BARE? I can't imagine many high school jocks feeling comfortable playing those roles --
#40re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:36amI actually saw a small high school try an attempt at RENT. I was horrified. I mean that just falls under one of the shows that is near impossible for a high school to do well and it was a disaster. I could ramble about it for pages but I'll just leave it at "words cannot describe what its like to see a 15 year old try to do Out Tonight" (only it was the censored version of things so parents wouldn't get pissed." Lord save us all....
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-Scrubs
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#41re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:36am
Well, I go to a performing arts school, and we'd love to do a challenging show.
but this year we're doing Seussical.
:sigh:
nodaybut2day2007
Featured Actor Joined: 5/29/05
#42re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:38amWere do jocks come into play? I've already been told I'll probably play Peter.
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#43re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:39amCurtainUp - I am actually one of those students who has taken on L5Y as a separate project. But I can't see the high school doing that show as its annual production.
Nath
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#44re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:39am
trying to make seussical work is a challenge! and the vocals are awesome!
which version si it? hasn't it been rewriteen a hundred times?
#46re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:41am
Well most guys (even those who arent jocks) in high school aren't comfortable enough with their sexuality to have kissing scenes on stage with another guy...
Your school must be a rare exception!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#47re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:41am
NAth, I don't think I'll know till later this year. It's our second show we're doing this year for some so it comes later.
But we were all dissapointed because the musical theatre director was between Guys and Dolls and Aida, both I adore.
And then Seussical. Out of left feild.
Please reassure me some more.
nodaybut2day2007
Featured Actor Joined: 5/29/05
#48re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:43amThere alot of Jocks that i would be delighted to play with........ I mean play opposite of, well you know what I mean.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#49re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:43am
There really are very few shows that NO high school in the country might do. Every single Sondheim show has been done in high school (including Assassins), as has A Chorus Line, Hair, Dreamgirls, Rocky Horror and others that seem to be a bit of a stretch.
I can't imagine Hedwig being done, given that it's basically one character (not to mention the subject matter).
Porgy and Bess I have a hard time seeing a high school pulling off, though maybe it's happened (a predominantly black performing arts high school with dozens of opera students perhaps?).
As someone pointed out, Jerome Robbins Broadway, Movin Out, Fosse and Contact would be REALLY tough to cast with high school students -- maybe a dance school or something.
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Updated On: 7/6/05 at 12:43 AM
Nath
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#50re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:44am
guys and dolls? aida? could there be more different shows?
Seussical is heaps more fun? and an awesome sing! more roles more scope to be different! yeah the show is unbelievably flawed, but so much scope for being creative
#51re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools
Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:45amI saw a high school production of SHOWBOAT with an all white cast. That was pretty remarkable.
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