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your favorite offbeat musicals!
Rentaholic2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/04
#25re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/10/06 at 7:19pmif 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.
#26re: 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.
#27re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/10/06 at 11:10pmDOUBLE POST. Updated On: 7/11/06 at 11:10 PM
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#29re: 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
"...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..."
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#30re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/11/06 at 5:24pmI can't believe I have yet to see MENOPAUSE mentioned! It's a perfect small-cast show!
-- SDG
#31re: 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! 
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
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Updated On: 7/11/06 at 06:04 PM
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#32re: 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.
#33re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/11/06 at 8:56pma new brain is PERFECT! ahhhh i love it it's amazing
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#34re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:24pmI like two better-known musicals, Urinetown and Assassins.
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)
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)
#35re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:28pmI second Zanna, Don't! It's a fun show.
"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
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#36re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/12/06 at 4:09amBump!
"...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..."
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#37re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/12/06 at 6:00am
PROMENADE
But you need terrific legit voices.
fairygodmother
Featured Actor Joined: 4/30/06
#38re: 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
elmore3003
Leading Actor Joined: 3/31/04
#40re: your favorite offbeat musicals!
Posted: 7/12/06 at 9:46amFloyd Collins Updated On: 7/12/06 at 09:46 AM
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