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#26

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/10/06 at 7:19pm

if you do Little Shop and want to rent a set of Audrey II's, start looking ASAP. They can be pretty expensive (up to a couple thousand dollars to rent) and can be in high demand.

#27

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/10/06 at 11:10pm

Reefer Madness was on the tip of my tongue when I saw the title of this thread.

Add Bat Boy, Opposite of Sex, Debbie Does Dallas, and Metropolis. And of course cannot forget Carrie.

#28

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/10/06 at 11:10pm

DOUBLE POST.

Updated On: 7/11/06 at 11:10 PM

#29

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/11/06 at 12:37am

Lucky Stiff - It's Campy and fun!

#30

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/11/06 at 6:54am

Yeah, I like Lucky Stiff too.

But my tip is... Virgins - A Musical Threesome.

Keep an eye out for it during the September NY Musical Theater Festival.

BRILLIANT

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"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending. The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."

#31

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/11/06 at 5:24pm

I can't believe I have yet to see MENOPAUSE mentioned! It's a perfect small-cast show!

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#32

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/11/06 at 6:04pm

Crabtree's "When Pig's Fly" and "Whoop-dee-doo!". I think Samuel French handles them both. Both fun and silly, with lots of freedom! ...but not for everyone!

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Updated On: 7/11/06 at 06:04 PM

#33

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:51pm

I second the vote for "Personals". It's a fun show with a cast of 6, and can be done on basically no budget.

#34

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:56pm

a new brain is PERFECT! ahhhh i love it it's amazing

#35

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:24pm

I like two better-known musicals, Urinetown and Assassins.

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If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

#36

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:28pm

I second Zanna, Don't! It's a fun show.

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"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth." - Barbra Streisand

#37

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/12/06 at 4:09am

Bump!

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"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending. The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."

#38

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/12/06 at 6:00am

PROMENADE

But you need terrific legit voices.

#39

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:53am

i'm gonna second a lot of stuff that's already been put -
urinetown, hedwig, rocky horror, personals, lucky stiff, new brain

how about nunsense? i don't know it well but it looks fun
also threepenny opera

you can't get the rights to taboo yet, can u?
not sure how quirky and underground u can really call some of these tho, and i don't know a lot of the other things
like - i adore assassins, but its not really the same genre as batboy.mind u, neither's threepenny opera

#40

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/12/06 at 9:39am

Promenade!

#41

re: your favorite offbeat musicals!

Posted: 7/12/06 at 9:46am

Floyd Collins

Updated On: 7/12/06 at 09:46 AM