high school musicals/plays

hey, members of my schools theatre department are going to be discussing different plays and musicals for next year. in the past we have done fiddler on the roof, taming of the shrew, les miserables, the government inspector, the secret garden, noises off, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum, and romeo and juliet.

obviously, we have done a lot of period musicals and i was hoping to bring up some more modern suggestions like Sweet Charity or All Shook Up. I was just wondering if anyone had any good ideas for possible high school shows that will not be too corny or cheesey and appealing to the students and audience. thanks so much!!

Perhaps Working?

Once on this Island.

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A school did it really well here a few years ago. But the cast was really talented...

I'll try and find the publisher.

I’ve seen really fabulous high school productions of Once On This Island, The Wiz, and She Loves Me. I don’t really care for Stephen Schwartz but a lot of high schools do his shows. I’ve seen a decent production of Children of Eden and an awful production of Godspell. I’ve never seen a high school do Pippin, but I know they do it, and I think it’s the most interesting choice.

would "the fantasticks" be horribly inappropriate?!

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DRS is 'Restricted' right now.
Same goes for 'The Producers' apparently.
I'm just going by what MTI has told me as of late.

West Side Story

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this year my school did thoroughly modern millie.

If my school wasn't so midwestern conservative, I'd love to do the original play version of SA. I think we'd even have the talent too for it too.