high school play with majority of females
high school play with majority of females
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#0high 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....
broadwayfan24
Leading Actor Joined: 7/7/04
#1re: 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!
Jess1483
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/04
#2re: 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?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/14/04 at 10:39pmI am sorry. I meant non musicals. And this my first time on this website, sorry, if this has been repeated over and over.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/14/04 at 10:40pmyes, just looking for plays...
Jess1483
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/04
#5re: 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.)
#6re: 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
#7re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/14/04 at 11:16pmCheck out the collection "Plays for Actresses" edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold that are plays with ALL girls...
#8re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/15/04 at 12:51amMore 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?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/15/04 at 1:06amActually, 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.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/15/04 at 1:08amOH, it is called, "Daughters of the Lonestar State"
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#11re: 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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alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#12re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:28amTry The Women. It has a large cast too.
#13re: 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
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#14re: 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!
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#15re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:32pmthe classic comedy STAGE DOOR. it has TONS of female roles.
virgil blessing2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/12/04
#16re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:33pmi also saw the classic 12 ANGRY MEN done with all women.
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#17re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/17/04 at 12:26am
Just do:
MOBY DICK "THE MUSICAL"
orchajaws
Featured Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#18re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/17/04 at 1:27am"Antigone", "I Remember Mama" Updated On: 9/17/04 at 01:27 AM
#19re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/17/04 at 7:19amAnton in Show Business! Girls play EVERYONE, INCLUDING the guys!
#20re: 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
Rentaholic2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/04
#21re: 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
#22re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/17/04 at 8:58pm
hmmm
our town? characters can always be substituted
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#23re: high school play with majority of females
Posted: 9/17/04 at 10:23pmDuring 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.
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