Shows framed like a travelling show?

[aces25]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 3:05pm

Hi there,
Have you ever seen productions of shows that are framed like a travelling show/trunk show/circus/vaudeville style?

[tazber]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 3:07pm

Barnum
Hard Times

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 3:09pm

The original production of Pippin, and many of the ones after, have framed their production as a traveling circus.

Reefer Madness (both the musical and the movie musical) are a dramatization within a propaganda lecture.

The Rocky Horror Show is especially meta- the opening and closing number frame the story (either movie or play) as being a fictional B-movie, but the story itself is a reenactment of an academic's case study (a throwback to sci-fi legend H.P. Lovecraft).

[get-it-right]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 3:45pm

Leap of Faith

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 3:48pm

Annie Get Your Gun revival

[ReggieonBway]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 3:51pm

Brother Russia, an are we counting Drood?

[MattDe]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 4:52pm

Isn't Wicked supposed to be a traveling show and aren't the witches supposed to be puppets or something

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 7:16pm

^ In the novel, yes. The musical kinda took that concept, but didn't really execute it completely so I'm not sure what they were going for.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 7:22pm

Kiss Me Kate

[MattDe]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 7:38pm

kiss me kate yes In regards to wicked yes okay

[MattDe]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 7:43pm

Cabaret is obvious well the old one. The doesn't use the travel element but has some ideas. The Scottsboro Boys. I could stretch it and say Curtains to some extent.

[MattDe]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 7:47pm

delete Updated On: 11/22/12 at 07:47 PM

[justoldbill]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 11:25pm

CARNIVAL
ROADSIDE

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/22/12 at 11:34pm

The Fantasticks.

[carousel94]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 12:21am

I wanna say Prince's Candide. The opera house presentation and the 97 revival, perhaps the 73 revival too, I know it had a circus like pageant wagon atmosphere.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 12:29am

I'm surprised no one cited the '99 Annie Get Your Gun yet.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 12:35am

"I'm surprised no one cited the '99 Annie Get Your Gun yet."

Except for when bwayphreak did a few responses into the thread.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 1:20am

Sweeney Todd.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 10:37am

The Boy Friend.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 10:54am

SHOWBOAT
MAN OF LA MANCHA (as a sort of captive improv troupe)
ZORBA (bouzouki taverna troupe)
HAIR (ragtag hippy tribe)
GODSPELL(ragtag hippy tribe)
GRIND (vaudeville burlesque company)
THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES
ASSASSINS (carnival midway)
STEEL PIER
SIDE SHOW
THE GLORIOUS ONES (renaissance acting troupe)
and apparently CHAPLIN (have only seen preview video)

Sure, most of these aren't TRAVELING troupes, but vaudeville/circus troupes just the same.

Updated On: 11/23/12 at 10:54 AM

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 11:19am

ROAD SHOW.

[Jon]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 11:48am

Yes, in Harold Prince's "Opera House" version of Candide, Voltaire's traveling troupe of actors arrive during the overture.

In the 1973 "environemental" production, the show opens with Voltaire sleeping at his desk in a nightshirt.

[little_sally]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 11:52am

Isn't LaChiusa's The Wild Party presented as vaudeville?

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 12:14pm

Drood. Although set in a music hall, the Chairman says the company is going on the road - I believe to Brighton - soon.

Carnival.

Annie Get Your Gun.
Updated On: 11/23/12 at 12:14 PM

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/23/12 at 12:45pm

Scottsboro Boys