Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

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Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:03pm

Hey all...

So I'm going to be directing a musical this summer at a local community theatre with high school/college age kids. Last year we did the revival version of "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown" and it was a huge sucsess. Anyone have any suggestions to top that? It's a small space... about 110 seats. I'm really looking for a show about the size of "YAGMCB" as we don't have THAT many kids. A ten person max probably. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!!

#2

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:10pm

Pippin!

#3

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:10pm

The recent Broadway musical version of Little Women had a small cast.

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#4

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:13pm

Ehhhh I do love Little Women, but none of our girls have the voice. And the theatre did Pippin a few years back....

Keep 'em comin though!!

#5

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:22pm

Summer of '42 by Kirshenbaum and Foster. Rights from Dramtists Play service.

Cast is Hermie, Dorothy, Oscy, benjie, Aggie, Miriam, Gloria, sanders/Winchell, and Pete. Band is six pieces. cam be done, as it was off-Broadway on a small stage with a basic beach set and small units brought in for the other locations (interior of a house, inside/outisde of a movie house that needs only 4 seats, a teen boy's bedroom, and a drugstore)


Great, small musical with lots of heart, based on a classic film. A double CD was recently released by Jay Records. It is a GREAT record that includes all music and dialogue.. even exit music. It gives you a wonderful feel for the piece.

#6

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:24pm

Song & Dance???

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#7

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:27pm

I probably should have mentioned that this is a theatre in the middle of no where in the boondocks of Connecticut... so our audiences are weird. They'll need a semi-recognizable title.

#8

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:27pm

Into the Woods

#9

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:32pm

Honk

#10

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Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:33pm

Godspell
I Do! I Do!
Tintypes
Pete 'n Keely
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Ain't Misbehavin'

#11

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:34pm

A Year With Frog And Toad

#12

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 2:57pm

Little Shop of Horrors

Nunsense

The Apple Tree

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#13

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 3:09pm

Pump Boys & Dinettes?

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"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

#14

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Posted: 5/7/07 at 3:30pm

Working

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#15

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Posted: 5/7/07 at 3:38pm

Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?

#16

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Posted: 5/7/07 at 4:34pm

From this list I'd say Godspell or Little Shop would sell the most tickets. If I had a theatre to fill this summer I'd do Pippin or Godspell with a huge "By the composer of WICKED" Banner on the poster.

#17

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 4:40pm

Godspell or Little Shop of Horrors

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#18

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Posted: 5/7/07 at 4:44pm

Tick, Tick... Boom! You could actually cast some of the smaller roles instead of having Michael and Susan playing all those other characters...

#19

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Posted: 5/7/07 at 4:46pm

I second Working!

#20

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Posted: 5/7/07 at 5:54pm

A New Brain

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#21

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Posted: 5/7/07 at 5:58pm

i somehow think kids singing "A New Brain" would come across as super tacky. ditto with "Tick...Tick...Boom!". but maybe i'm just not "with it" or something. i love the shows but i have a hard time picturing high school students singing these songs.

i'm with Michael Bennett on "Honk!" another fun show would be "Crazy For You" though that does require a large ensemble so i'd count it out.

#22

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/7/07 at 6:00pm

Once on this Island. Perfect 10 person show. The oringial had 11, but lil timoune and little girl can be combined into one part.

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#23

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/8/07 at 11:54am

summer of 42.. as i said. small cast, simple show.. known film. small town fit.

#24

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/8/07 at 12:00pm

Fantasticks.

#25

re: Smaller Musical Suggestion Help!!

Posted: 5/8/07 at 1:54pm

Lucky Stiff - cast of 10