Shows With Water

#1

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 12:50am

Hello all. I am on the board of a new theatre company. We have a wonderful opportunity to stage a show at the end of the summer at an outdoor venue that contains a swimming pool where the playing space will be. I come to you for ideas for a show that a body of water (pool, lake, ocean, etc.) serves a part, large or small, in the show. We are currently considering shows like A Year With Frog and Toad or Big River, but would love some other ideas thrown around. We are looking for something with a small to medium sized cast and are open to straight plays or musicals. Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses is out as several large theatres have produced the show recently although it would be a great option. Any ideas are welcome and thank you for any help.

#2

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 12:59am

Little Mermaid
South Pacific
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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#3

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:01am

The Miracle Worker

#4

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:06am

Bitch, that made me almost choke.

#5

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:20am

I'm afraid The Little Mermaid is too ambitious mainly because of cast size and it taking place almost entirely in the water. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is an excellent suggestion. Someone had brought up the show Lips Together, Teeth Apart, I'm not entirely familiar with the show but know it takes place at a beach home on Fire Island, is it any good?

#6

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:37am

NINE

#7

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:40am

MTI licenses a little known variation on a Stephen Sondheim classic called Water Follies of 1941.

#8

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:43am

The Frogs, no?

#9

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Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:43am

Don't listen to him. That's just the same old FOLLIES but with Sally peeing everywhere.

#10

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Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:45am

When she says "I left the dishes in the sink" you realize the whole thing has actually been taking place her in her sink!

#11

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Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:49am

And "Im Still Here" is a song sung by one of the dishes in the sink to highlight what a horrible housekeeper Sally is.

#12

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:07am

Jordan - I am literally in tears from laughing. THANK YOU.

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#13

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:54am

Eurydice

#14

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:56am

Metamorphoses.

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#15

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 5:21am

There was a brilliant production of TWELFTH NIGHT that incorporated water back in the 1990s at Lincoln Centre. And just a few years ago, someone did a production of GODOT that used Hurricane Katruina as a concept and put the two clowns on top of a house that was up to its eaves in water. The other characters arrived in small boats; the whole thing was amazing to watch.

Dont feel restrained by "what show has water in it?", but rather, as these examples did, think what show could be amplified by the concept.

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#16

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 8:09am

My One & Only

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#17

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 8:10am

Marat/Sade
Ondine
Seascape
Metamorphoses
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
An Enemy of the People
Urinetown
Anyone Can Whistle
The Time of the Cuckoo
Do I Hear A Waltz
On Golden Pond
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove
The Coast of Utopia
Othello
Carousel
Porgy and Bess

(I didn't restrain myself)

#18

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 8:24am

You could do The Wind in the Willows musical with an actual boat. I don't know why the stage musical decides a boat is the most important vehicle in that story, but it's used all the time to get Mole and Frog to their next destination.

#19

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 8:33am

Wish You Were Here

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#20

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 9:19am

Have you thought of maybe doing a straight play version of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid? The original is very different from Disney's and there are some great opportunities for creative staging ideas.

#21

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 9:22am

LOVE! VAL0UR! COMPASSION!

#22

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 9:32am

Titanic

Night of the Iguana

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#23

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 10:57am

AIDA has a "swimming pool" scene for Amneris and her servants before the fashion show.

You could do ROCKY HORROR and use the pool scene from the film, I guess...

#24

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 12:40pm

The Tempest

#25

Shows With Water

Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:48pm

The Tempest
Twelfth Night