Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools- Page 2

[CurtainUp]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#26

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:23am

Not for main productions, but I know high school students that have taken on Last 5 Years as a final theatre project.

Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

[Michael Bennett]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#27

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:24am

That'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]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#28

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:25am

Well, they did that, too, a few years earlier. They like to mix it up- Company one year, Will Rogers' Follies another.

[cathywellerstein]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#29

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:26am

i can't see any high school doing POTO, Dracula, or DOTV.

[TabooWickedFan]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#30

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:28am

Taboo

"But I relish every brillant inspired moment. This is who I'm determined to be- an actor/singer/dancer-no, I take that back, this is who I am. These people are my tribe, my destiny. I know it. -How I Paid for College; A story of sex, theft, friendship and musical theater.

[BwayLeadman]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#31

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:29am

The shows that you say will NEVER be done, are the one's High School Musical "producers" are thinking of putting on.

[Unknown User]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#32

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.

[Michael Bennett]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#33

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:31am

They were all white? Were they at least in blackface?

[Plum]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#34

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:32am

I'm not sure which would be worse...

[Michael Bennett]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#35

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:33am

Well if you're going to be offensive, be REALLY offensive I say.

[Nath]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#36

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:33am

I know a school that did Rocky Horror (rather illegally too i think)...

[nodaybut2day2007]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#37

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:34am

I know RHPS and Company have bothe been done, and my school is trying to do BARE next year.

[Unknown User]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#38

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:34am

They 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.

[Michael Bennett]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#39

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:35am

Could they cast BARE? I can't imagine many high school jocks feeling comfortable playing those roles --

[Dreamcatcher]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#40

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:36am

I 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....

I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart. -Scrubs

[Unknown User]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#41

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]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#42

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:38am

Were do jocks come into play? I've already been told I'll probably play Peter.

[perfectliar]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#43

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:39am

CurtainUp - 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]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#44

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?

[Michael Bennett]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#46

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!

[Unknown User]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#47

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]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#48

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:43am

There alot of Jocks that i would be delighted to play with........ I mean play opposite of, well you know what I mean.

[MargoChanning]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#49

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.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 7/6/05 at 12:43 AM

[Nath]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#50

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

[Michael Bennett]

re: Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools#51

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:45am

I saw a high school production of SHOWBOAT with an all white cast. That was pretty remarkable.