Well known shows for an all girls highschool

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~

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

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

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

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.

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

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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~

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

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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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

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)

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~

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