Just had this random thought and wanted to ask it. I was thinking more along the lines of straight plays, but Im open to any answers, and Im not excluding plays that also have female leads, and a more limited number of male supporting players.
For the record, I already have two that come to mind: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike for plays and Nine for musicals. But let me know what other shows apply to this criteria that Im missing.
From a musical standpoint, Stop The World I Want To Get Off is another good example (only 1 male character who is the lead with an all-female ensemble and either 1 woman playing all the other female principal roles or the roles can be split among multiple women).
The first play that comes to mind is Some Girls by Neil Labute (I guarantee there are far better plays that fit this description, this is just the first one I thought of for some reason).
Hot Pants said: "Just had this random thought and wanted to ask it. I was thinking more along the lines of straight plays, but Im open to any answers, and Im not excluding plays that also have female leads, and a more limited number of male supporting players.
For the record, I already have two that come to mind: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike for plays and Nine for musicals. But let me know what other shows apply to this criteria that Im missing."
I don't think your Sonya example holds up. It has a cast of 5, I think. Two mean, three women. It is an ensemble cast if there ever was one. The role of Vanya is not the lead IMO...he has that big scene late in the play, but that doesn't mae him the lead.
I agree with Nine. That was the first thing I thought of.
There's the musical "No one called ahead" by Paul Gordon (1 man, 5 women - and each one has at least one solo song).
"Little Women" and "We are the Tigers" are other female heavy musicals but since I haven't seen either I can't say if there's a real male lead role as well...
I know you are looking more for straight plays but I can't really think of one.
This is a tough one. After scrolling through the list of shows I've seen, the best example I can think of for plays (not musicals) is Teenage Dick, by Mike Lew.
The lead is male, and there is one more male supporting character, while the other 4 supporting characters are all women. So the cast is 66% female, with a male lead.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Can think of two Neil Simon ones, Last of the Red Hot Lovers and something with Alan Alda... Jake's Women I think it was called The Loves of Anatole. Platanov/Wild Honey/The Present Ivanov Strindberg's The Father The Ferryman (of course it's also male heavy, duck heavy, goat heavy...) Don Carlos