Shows That Will NEVER Be Done By High Schools — Page 6

"and they can always Music Man, Jesus, Joseph, Little Shop and Lil Abner, every hs in America will probably do these in the next few years."

Yep, we did Lil Abner last year.
42nd Street the year before
Anythings goes before that
and Damn Yankees before that.
I go to a very original school.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


that was a joke right?



right?

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It would be easy for schools up north, in the west and and in the east to do shows like BARE, RENT, La Cage..but here in the south nobody would probably touch these shows because of the subject matter. But shows like Follies, Company, Chicago, and other would be done.

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I saw A Chorus Line done by a high school a couple years ago and it was excellent.


Personally, these are shows I NEVER want to see done by a high school:

Phantom of the Opera - Vocally and tech wise!
RENT
Cabaret
Avenue Q
Bare - I could very well see it done in college theatre though
Chicago
Wicked - As much as I'd LOVE to be in that show, it would be an insult to be performed by high school students. NO WAY, NO HOW! How could they manage the choreography or those awesome costumes? Plus just the tech stuff alone is so involved! It's just too big of a show!!


Our school NEVER does anything remotely edgy, our director thinks Grease is way too dirty. I'll just have to wait for college.....

Updated On: 7/7/05 at 01:10 AM

The Full Monty. That will never be done.

Why on earth would a high school, even if it had the talent and the community that would love the material, do Company? It's about 30-something's and their grief in relationships, why hand that material to high schoolers?

Then again, I think of all the aging stars who did Grease... maybe it's retribution

i have seen "cabaret" in a high school production...it was so weird to see little kids playing gays and stuff....it was mind blowing.

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next year my highschool will be doing evita! i didn't think that would be a show that a high school would do.. but we certainly are doing it!

I don't think CATS will ever be done. Nor POTO. Also I don't know if a high school would do Sunday in the Park with George.

EATING RAOUL will not be done by a high school.

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There's only one problem with everything being said. I know it seems unfair to allow high schools to do all of these shows that are too "big" or "inappropriate", but these are also the people asking why we're only getting Jesus Christ Superstar and Into the Woods, and Fame, or what have you. Why don't we just cut theatre out of high schools all together? They obviously can't do it. The whole point of high school theatre (at least for myself and many of the people I do it with) is to learn and prepare for the future study of theatre arts. As for the capabiltiy of high school performers, my high school has successfully in recent years performed Pirates of Penzance, Mikado, and Pippin, not easy shows to do. I will be a senior next year. I want to do a modern musical, but it seems people (even in the theatre community) are too skeptical to allow us to do it. Even if it was a bad production, so what? The point is you should get something out of it. I don't want my last HS show to be Grease (and thank god it won't). All I'm saying is, give it a chance. No one's breaking your arm to go see it anyway, so what's the big deal?

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I don't think that Rent, Avenue Q, La Cage, A Chorus Line, Wicked, and The Producers will be done in high schools. Maybe colleges could pull of doing The Producers and A Chorus Line, but probably not the other ones I mentioned.

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