Well known shows for an all girls highschool

[VoiceofReason]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 8:34pm

So its that time of year, when my friends and i start thinking of shows to suggest to our director for next year (yeah right like it ever works) but this year i have a very knowlegable resource to turn to for suggestions, you all! I figure that everyone on these boards probably has a better range of shows than myself or many of my friends, so here goes: Our highschool is all girls, but for the musical we generally get a few boys to audition and then cast them on talent, not on wqehre we need boys
(ex: two years ago we did kiss me kate, and had 5 guys try out-2 were outstanding esp. for highschool, the other three were meh--so the two great guys got fred/petruchio and bill/lucentio, and the other three were in the chorus and in tom dick or harry----this year we had 6 guys try out for music man-5 could sing, 1 didnt evern try--the one guy was cast as charlie cowell, four of the five were cast as barbershopquartet(schoolboard) and the last one as the constable...then two guys in the quartet dropped so the guy who played the constable joined the quartet and then I switched parts to play jacey...anywho the thing is, because the guys weren;t really up to it, we had an amazing girl play harold hill and another great girl play marcellus, so it really varies by year)

whew that was a long parenthesis, anyways...point is our director loves big musicals, and we do have mainly girls (though half will prob end up playing guys) we have one extremely talented dancer, a couple really strong singers, one triple threat, one great comedic out there kinda quirky actress, and then generally enough girls to make up a great ensemble...and hopefully at least one strong male voice any suggestions for well known show we could do?
anything would be greatly appreciated!
thanks so much
always,
~m~

Updated On: 3/23/04 at 08:34 PM

[wickedfan]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 8:41pm

um, Follies maybe?

[VoiceofReason]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 8:46pm

Oh I wish!!! I forgot to add- we probably can't dosondhiem...grrrr...
always,
~m~

Updated On: 3/23/04 at 08:46 PM

[wickedfan]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 8:51pm

well, it's probably the easiest of sondheims really. But if she is really holding a grudge yo ucould do A...My name is ALice. Or 70 girls 70. Not very well known shows but they have their moments.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 8:54pm

NINE! It only has one guy and the rest are girls. Also THE WOMEN has no guys as all...but, I don't know were to get the rights for either of them. I could also see A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM having one guy play Hero and the rest girls.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 8:59pm

You could do MAME with a limited amount of men. At my camp they had I think 5 men. and the rest girls.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 9:28pm

must...fight...dark...impulses...mind strong...flesh weak...

[Amneris]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 9:31pm

my best friends high school did Forum last year, and he was one of 3 guys in the cast..the rest were girls and it worked fine.

also Nunsense hehe..

Annie?

[VoiceofReason]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 9:34pm

annie-no-we've done it recently, not such a good call to say the least...we're fine playing guys for chorus etc. but we do want a few strong female parts that fit who we have...thanks so much for all of these!!! keep em coming if you can!!!! my director recently sugessted oliver..i almost cried, but hey we did the music man, so why not right?
thank you guys soooo much!!! this is why i love these boards so much!!
always,
~M~

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 9:40pm

THE SNAKE PIT - The Musical!

Just follow the harrowing plot of the classic film, and insert zesty musical numbers dealing with insanity and mental unbalance: "Crazy He Calls Me", "Crazy For You", "Crazy Feet" "It Must Be Him", and of course, "Losing My Mind"!

[little_sally]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 9:50pm

i go to an all girls school and we did "nunsense" this year.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 10:22pm

1776

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 10:28pm

Chicago
Sweet Charity
Quilters
I'm Getting My Act Together & Taking It On The Road

[VoiceofReason]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 10:31pm

oh my gosh i cant beleive you jsut said quilters...we did that my freshman year...bad bad BAD call, esp for our school...sorry, we refuse to talk about it now that we ahve this awesome new director..but i would LOVE to do chicago, but you see our school kinda had a problem with a headmistress who kinda shot her lover...so rumer has it we wouldnt be allowed to do it.


always,
~m~

[shira467]

Posted: 3/22/04 at 11:24pm

OOh yeah, Sweet Charity. Definitely. Or maybe Sound of Music (too cliche?). If you could do Millie, it would be perfect. Ruthless? Nah, its only a 7 chaarcter musical. If y'all could tap, 42nd Street. Where are the men? Darn, I don't know.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 8:00am

In Sweet Charity, I've always wanted to see the Rhymthm of Life number done with a woman. "Come to Mama, come to Mama".

[DefyingGravity2]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 8:49am

Smile is a GREAT ONE FOR ALL GIRLS there's only a few guys and its about Pagents!! IA my name is Alice (or any variation on that) and Moby Dick the musical!

[Etcy]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 11:58am

Your headmistress shot her husband?????And she's still your headmistress????? What the hell is that?! lol...sorry just a lil strange.

~*Etcy*~

[GirlfriendFromCanada]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 12:05pm

I went to an all girls high school. Two of the shows that I remember working really well were Crazy For You (lots of Follies girls, not that many guys) and No No Nanette (which I can still quote start to finish from doing sound crew). We had a all-boy "brother" school that sometimes lent some talent to help cover the male roles, but if I recall, No No Nanette only had three guys in it. We also did Bye Bye Birdie, since it can cast a good sized ensemble of girls, and doesn't have too many male leads.

[VoiceofReason]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 12:46pm

nono--headmistress shot her lover--she's in jail--that was like 30something years ago, but we're still getting bad press for it---in fact an hbo movie is being made about it--do some research--im sure you can figure it out....
always,
~m~

[spikemark]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 1:53pm

Definitely SMILE. I worked on the original. Email me if you need info.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 4:16pm

The Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower (SOB)m was offed in a jealous suicidal rage by one Jean Harris who was Headmistress of the Madiera School in Virginia and also was at another girls prep school in Connecticut earlier. Jean was a girlfriend of the doctor's who was being shed for a younger model which semed to be a pattern of the doc's. It happened in the early 80s and that damn doctor had it coming (cue orchestra).

Jean served about 12-15 years at Bedford Hills and was commuted by Cuomo. She has lived out of the spotlight ever since. She might be 80 by now.

This was a MAJOR tabloid story--the case and the trial.

[SomewhereThatsGreen]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 5:28pm

Good research, WOSQ!

Also, VoR, THE BOYFRIEND has a bunch of female roles and is kind of cute (and not terribly hard to get the rights to if I recall)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 7:19pm

Nunsense.......but why is there an identical posting on the Off-Topic board?

[VoiceofReason]

Posted: 3/23/04 at 7:42pm

that was my bad--i posted there thinking it was the message board...then realized it was the off-topic board...so i posted it on the real message board, but now i don't know how to take it off the offtopic board...
always,
~m~