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#1

small cast shows

im looking for some small cast shows (musicals/plays) that have 1-4 characters. any help would be appreciated. these are ones ive come up with:

tick tick BOOM
john & jen
the last five years

thanks
#2

re: small cast shows

I DO! I DO!
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#3

re: small cast shows

Songs For A New World.

Edges: A Song Cycle
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#5

re: small cast shows

Do you mean Elegies: A Song Cycle?
#6

re: small cast shows

No EDGES by Pasek and Paul.

The Last Five Years
#7

re: small cast shows

How about The Fantastics? It's got five, but one person just holds props for the most part. You may find a way around not using the mute. Not sure it would work, but it's a suggestion. Worth looking into.
#8

re: small cast shows

Do you mean stuff that's still playing or just plays in general? Butterflies are Free. Just four principle players.
#9

re: small cast shows

I can't think of many musicals 4 or under besides the ones already mentioned, but there are a bunch with 5:

Beehive

Forever Plaid

Ain't Misbehavin
"If you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better." - David Mamet
#10

re: small cast shows

THE FANTASTICKS has eight people. Eliminating the Mute would violate copywright.

BABY has a cast of twelve - bare minimum.
#11

re: small cast shows

I Am My Own Wife
The Belle of Amherst
The Last Flapper
Lillian
The Fourposter
The Subject Was Roses
Talley's Folly
The Gin Game

Look on the Samuel French, Dramatists' Play Service, Tams Witmark, Music Theatre International and Rodgers and Hammerstein websites. You'll find plenty of these.

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Updated On: 4/12/07 at 01:15 PM

#12

re: small cast shows

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown would work if you could get some extra people.
#13

re: small cast shows

"THE FANTASTICKS has eight people. Eliminating the Mute would violate copywright."

oh, shut up!
#14

re: small cast shows

Doubt
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#15

re: small cast shows

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

"If you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better." - David Mamet

Updated On: 4/12/07 at 03:45 PM

#16

re: small cast shows

Why not do Urinetown and eliminate ALL the secondary characters - then it would have only six people.

Since violating copywright doesn't seem to matter.
#17

re: small cast shows

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#18

re: small cast shows

Proof--2 men, 2 women
How I Learned to Drive--2 men, 3 women

"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
#19

re: small cast shows

someone always says that about that edges.
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#20

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Any of the Falsettoes musicals or New Brain.
#21

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The Musical of Musicals-The Musical
#22

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Dames at Sea has 7 - it's 42nd street lite - if everyone can tap........
#23

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Godspell
#24

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noises off?
#25

re: small cast shows

Are people just naming random shows at this point?
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

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