high school play with majority of females

#1

high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/14/04 at 10:32pm

i am looking for a play to direct that has a majority of female characters. particularly, a comedy.....a drama is ok...something besides steel magnolias and the women...

any suggestions...

help me out here....

#2

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/14/04 at 10:35pm

We just did this, didn't we?

Ok here it goes
42nd St
Gypsy
Millie
A Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum

Warning: STAY AWAY FROM WEST SIDE STORY!! My high school did it and some girls didn't make the cut because it is a male dominated show! They're not kidding about the drama!

#3

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/14/04 at 10:39pm

Yeah, we did just do this: it was musical-specific. Are you looking for just plays though?

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#4

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/14/04 at 10:39pm

I am sorry. I meant non musicals. And this my first time on this website, sorry, if this has been repeated over and over.

#5

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/14/04 at 10:40pm

yes, just looking for plays...

#6

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/14/04 at 10:43pm

Don't worry. Welcome!!! The search feature can be really helpful. Also sometimes, people get angry if you don't use it and we've just talked about it. So give it a try.

Um...my HS did "Song of Survival," which is all-female and really good (we also did Steel Magnolias...surprise, surprise.)

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#7

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/14/04 at 11:09pm

Look at:

- The Learned Ladies
- The Odd Couple (Female Version)
- The Crucible

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#8

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/14/04 at 11:16pm

Check out the collection "Plays for Actresses" edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold that are plays with ALL girls...

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#9

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/15/04 at 12:51am

More girls than boys in the HS drama department? Shocking. You'd think somewhere the demand would trickle down to the writers. "Smile" is a musical that works. As for plays, I'm guessing there might be a straight play version of A Little Princess or Jane Eyre or Anne of Green Gables?

#10

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/15/04 at 1:06am

Actually, There is a play called "A piece of my heart". It is awesome. It is about the women of vietnam. Girlfriends, nurses, etc. It has a lot of room for creativity and large roles for around 6 women. However, you can turn it into a 20 person cast but adding in people for striking scenes, and so on, parties. Also, yikes, what is the name, The lonestar women, something like that. it is all women.

#11

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/15/04 at 1:08am

OH, it is called, "Daughters of the Lonestar State"

#12

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/15/04 at 1:15am

During high school, I'd always said that I wanted to write shows that were female-heavy so that the high schools could do them. But then I'm a male, so writing female-heavy shows becomes difficult because I feel like I'll misrepresent.

Yeah, you'd think it would trickle down to the writers, but somehow it hasn't. I think it's just hard being that there are still more male composers/lyricists/bookriters than female.

Then you have the fact that the majority of broadway musicals are based on source material of some other sort, and most other source material seems to be male-heavy.
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#13

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:28am

Try The Women. It has a large cast too.

#14

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/15/04 at 10:28am

- Beautiful Bodies
- Crimes of the Heart
- Steel Magnolias
- My Mother Said I Never Should

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Updated On: 9/15/04 at 10:28 AM

#15

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:37am

VANITIES by Jack Heifner
Swoosie Kurtz was in it originally. All girls/women.

"Talking with…" by Jane Martin
Also all women. A series of great, often very funny monologues.

Also, I went to an all girls school, and we actually did a lot of shows where we re-cast roles as female. Have you thought of doing that? There's a really interesting play, "The Visit," (by Friedrich Dürrenmatt) where you can do that with most of the suporting cast. We did, at least.

Hope that helps a little!

#16

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:32pm

the classic comedy STAGE DOOR. it has TONS of female roles.

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#17

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:33pm

i also saw the classic 12 ANGRY MEN done with all women.

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#18

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/17/04 at 12:26am

Just do:

MOBY DICK "THE MUSICAL"

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#19

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/17/04 at 1:27am

"Antigone", "I Remember Mama"

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#20

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/17/04 at 7:19am

Anton in Show Business! Girls play EVERYONE, INCLUDING the guys!

#21

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/17/04 at 3:15pm

Best female-dominated plays:

- The Miss Firecracker Contest
- Dancing at Lunghisa (sp?)
- 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress
- The Women
- Stage Door

#22

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/17/04 at 5:47pm

Scenes and Revelations
Quilters(i love this one)

both are 'little house on the prairee'-ish

Dancing at Lugnasa - good Irish play
The Crucible
The Cover of Life (definately drama, though)
The Twelve Princesses

#23

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/17/04 at 8:58pm

hmmm
our town? characters can always be substituted

#24

re: high school play with majority of females

Posted: 9/17/04 at 10:23pm

During the past spring I was in my highschool play of 12 Angry JURORS rather than MEN... we have more girls than guys in the performing arts departments and people who audition and everything so we just had maybe 5 guys in the show and the rest girls. It worked out reallyyyy well. but that's not a comedy.