Studio musicals

[toanythingtaboo]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:14am

HI! my school is taking studio musical submissions, and I really want to submit a musical for them to consider producing. It has to be small scale. We've already done little shop of horrors, and you're a good man charlie brown. Does anyone know any small scale musical (simple stage, smallish cast) that has a pretty good number of Female ALTO/ Mezzo parts, as a well as a few male roles? Please get back to me quickly, the submissions are due very very soon!

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:21am

Assassins maybe?

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:22am

-Songs for a New World is only 4 but prob could be pulled off with a couple more.

-Edges: A Song Cycle is new but would be great in a studio show only a 4 person cast. (pasekandpaul.com) for info.

- Godspell could be a good choice too.

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:32am

Triumph of Love - This set can be sooooo easy, and two of the parts were Betty Buckley and Susan Egan. 3 women, 4 men

[ByMySide25]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:38am

Snoopy! or You're A Good Man Charlie Brown.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:42am

read the first paragraph

[ByMySide25]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 12:46am

Whoops...

Maybe tick, tick...BOOM!? Although that's probably too small.

[Juli]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 1:50am

Cabaret could be done as a minimalist production, and it has lots of female parts like Kost, Schneider, Sally and besides the EMCEE the guys' singing ability doesnt have to be too great at all...cast could be a small as you need it to be, could be done with five chairs, a table, and a spotlight...wait...i've seen this before...

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 1:52am

What happened to those new ideas?

[Juli]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 2:04am

I was going to say Chicago but that's still running...

I suppose something like Into the Woods is pretty much school material (as far as Sondheim goes, anyway) and that's got a lot of girl parts. Now the cast is a bit large but if you give people two roles sometimes like its normally done than you should be fine. There's also a lot than can be done with the material in terms of making characters your own and easier for students to understand.

I do think Cabaret can be minimalist without harking back to the Mendes production (which the town next to us used the EXACT set from the revival last school season) Our cabaret will be kind of stripped doen in the sense the we'll have no walls or doors, lots of door frames and tables, chairs, and lots of tricky lighting to separate people and make things seem more confined, the design models the teacher made with some of us during the past month of lunch meetings seems pretty cool anyway.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 11:17am

If you are far away from NY you can do Chicago I have heard. My school tired getting the rights but they "claimed" we were to close to NY....2.5 hours away.

[Boq101]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 11:25am

Well I'm in Northern NJ so we don't get any slack at all. It's for the good of the shows running on Broadway I guess so it must be for the better. I'd kill to do Chicago though...

[Julian2]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 1:14pm

The Fantasticks is one off the top of my head.

[Boq101]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 5:10pm

Thats a good idea i suppose.

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 5:16pm

Have you considered doing a concert style version of a larger show like what they did with Sweeney Todd and Chicago? I also give Bat Boy a high recommendation!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 5:18pm

Zombie Prom

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 11/20/06 at 5:36pm

John and Jen

You could shrink some shows down to size, such as HONK! My community theatre successfully shrank HONK! onto a blackbox stage. It was really nice.