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Student Production Ideas

Posted: 3/31/04 at 8:10pm

ok, every year after the musical in my high school, a senior who has been involved in theater throughout high school puts on a student production directed and casted entirely by the senior
this past production was "the mousetrap" and the previous "The Breakfast Club"
does anyone have suggestions for a good, moderately difficult play to be put on when I'm senior? (next year)

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 9:43pm

In my senior year, I tried to put on Rocky Horror and it was a blast to cast and rehearse. Until I found it difficult to get the rights. And my principal realized that it's "THAT" Rocky Horror Show.

Do you want a play or a musical? And how many people in the cast?

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 9:45pm

a play, and the cast is generally small about 8-10 people

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 9:52pm

Try "Fools" by Neil Simon

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Posted: 4/1/04 at 1:48am

I did The Crucible in high school, and The Importance of Being Earnest the year afterwards. The latter is esp. good for the size cast you're thinking of.

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Posted: 4/1/04 at 8:08am

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Posted: 4/1/04 at 8:07pm

This fall we did Arsenic and Old Lace, it was fantastic .. i got to play Aunt Martha.

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Posted: 4/1/04 at 9:24pm

Brighton Beach Memoirs has a small cast as well; and it's great fun to direct, I would imagine. I would look into it; relatively easy to get the rights to and a wonderfully funny play.

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Posted: 4/1/04 at 9:29pm

I'm auditioning for Brighton Beach Memoirs this weekend! Woohoo!

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Posted: 4/2/04 at 1:18pm

I was just at a high school drama competition and there were some excellent shows. My school did Alice's Wonderland, about drugs. Another school did Marat/Sade which was decided to be inappropriate. Some good ones were Making Nice (my personal favorite,) Icarus, and 12 Angry Jurors.

This year my school has done A Streetcar Named Desire, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Suddenly Last Summer, and Waiting For Godot. Those aren't really high school level, so it depends one what you're looking for.

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Posted: 4/2/04 at 2:05pm

This is probably too large and too long, but has anyone ever done A Flea in Her Ear? I just saw it here at school and loved it. Its so much fun even if it is very long. The second act was the part I would have thought would be the funniest, but the first and last act were the funniest. The second act dragged a bit. I second You Can't Take It with You. It is a lot of fun to be in. I was Ed my junior year of high school, and it was a lot of fun. We would crack up at some of the stuff in rehearsal. Asking Essie if Grandpa gave us permission to have a baby. She goes up the stairs, I sit there for a few seconds nodding to myself. Then suddenly it hits me, big grin sweeps across my face and I scramble up the stairs as fast as I can after her. Ahhh I'm giving away things though.

It really is a lot of fun.

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Posted: 4/2/04 at 8:19pm

Hey TheGirlinTheFrock I wonder if I know you. I remember Arsenic! o you live in California?

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Posted: 4/2/04 at 10:18pm

Rumors (Neil Simon) has a cast of 9 (5m,4f). Comedic murder mystery. One interior set.

A Thousand Clowns (Herb Gardner) has a cast of 6 (5m,1f on paper, but it can be cast 3m,3f). It's time for an uncle to grow up so that he can continue as the guardian of his nephew. One interior set.

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Posted: 4/3/04 at 5:35am

This Christmas I am directing FAME at our college - cast of 22, one fixed set. We're just praying the license goes through with no problems..

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Posted: 4/3/04 at 5:12pm

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Posted: 4/4/04 at 1:54am

A semi-difficult yet very moving play is The Boys Next Door. It is amazing and the audience will cry their eyes out. I just got finished with a run of it.

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Posted: 4/4/04 at 1:12pm

"Brighton Beach Memoirs" --a wonderful play!
"Lend Me A Tenor" - if you are up to directing farce - a great show to be in as well as direct

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