I'm going to a junior and we have already done "Cinderella", "Grease", "Anything Goes", How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and "Ragtime".
We need a musical that is not on Broadway currently andhas a lot of parts, with a focus on the female parts more than the males since there are more girls in the program. Something fun and with awesome songs and chorus numbers. I need your input!
BONUS! Gotta a play (no music) that fits the critria? TELL ME!
2006-06-30 15:15:12 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
A good high school musical is one that involves a large ensemble, a good set for the stage crew to work on and a great score. It's also good to do shows that aren't unheard of so that you get a good audition turnout and a good audience.
Carousel (Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatre Library) is a beautiful, dramatic musical about the failed love of Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan. It has a large ensemble, is both funny and sad and has great music. The only thing is that Billy Bigelow is a demanding male role that could be hard to cast.
Into The Woods (Music Theatre International) is a funny, touching musical about getting to happily ever after...and then what happens afterward. It has a huge cast of speaking roles and an ensemble of woodland creatures can easily be added. On the negative side it's a heavy Sondheim musical with a demanding score that can be hard for some high school aged performers.
The Wiz (Tams-Witmark) is a fun, light musical that has a hip, jazzy score. Many people shrug this one off because they think it has to be cast with African Americans, but this isn't the case at all. Several parts can be cast as men or women, so this is a good idea.
Urinetown (Music Theatre International) is actually a squeaky clean, fun musical that is totally appropriate for high school performers. A loving parody of other musicals, this one has a lively score and a hilarious book. The title may not go well with the school board, though.
Annie Get Your Gun (Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatre Library) is another good choice. Annie Oakley is a fabulous role for a young girl and it has some really famous songs in it such as "Anything You Can Do" and "There's No Business Like Show Business."
Hello Dolly (Tams-Witmark) is a great, fun show with a strong female cast and a fun male cast as well. This is a great choice, because a lot of older people will come to see it. Can't find a negative to doing this show.
Plays:
The Crucible
The Odd Couple (female version)
Museum
Voices From the High School
University
Actor's Nightmare
Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show
Picnic
Splendor in the Grass
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Our Town
The Matchmaker (of which Hello Dolly is based)
The Skin of our Teeth
Hope this helps.
2006-07-01 04:22:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
tonnnnssss.
musicals
godspellinto the woods
urinetown
aida
the scarlet pimpernel
the music man
bye bye birdymiss saigon
13 Daughters
A Year With Frog And Toad
Aida
Annie
Annie Warbucks
Anyone Can Whistle
Bendigo Boswell
big, The Musical
By The Beautiful Sea
Canterbury Tales
Captain Stirrick
Copacabana
Cyrano
Damn Yankees
Divorce Me, Darling!
Doctor Dolittle
Fame
Fiddler On The Roof
Fiorello!
Guys And Dolls
Happy Hunting
Here's Love
Jack Spratt, V.C.
Jekyll & Hyde
Kismet
Les Miserables School Edition
Merrily We Roll Along
My Favorite Year
Quilt, A Musical Celebration
Redhead
Roman Invasion... Ramsbottom
Scrooge, The Stingiest Man...
Seussical
Seven Brides… Brothers
Singin' In The Rain
Teddy & Alice
Tenderloin
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Civil War
The Most Happy Fella
The Pajama Game
The Pirates Of Penzance
The Rothschilds
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Thoroughly Modern Millie
West Side Story
Willy Wonka
Wish You Were Here
Tick Tick Boom!
Saturday Night
Once on This Island
Plays
The Princess Bride
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Sly Fox
Twelfth Night
Tom Jones
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
2006-06-30 15:26:28 · answer #2 · answered by Mortiz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Crazy for You" has a good number of female parts...big dance show (tap) where the lead male needs to tap as well. "Secret Garden" is an awesome musical but you have to have a great deal of talent to pull it off... and this goes for "Into The Woods" as well which is a fantastic musical - but not much chorus involved. These both have strong female lead parts. Of course the old standards like "Sound of Music" always brings in a crowd and can involve elementary kids too...like "The Music Man" but that requires a male lead. " Hello Dolly" is female and male lead with 2 female and 2 male supporting leads."Little Shop of Horrors" is always a blast - has a great female trio in addition to female lead. Just a few suggestions. Hope it helps.
2006-06-30 15:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will have to strongly disagree with whoever said do Bye Bye Birdie.
I will have to say: For goodness sake, don't do Bye Bye Birdie!
1. It's the high school musical that you do when you don't know of anything else better to do, and obviously you want something better than that.
2. Your WHOLE SCHOOL, or at least the people who know about/are involved with the show will be singing stupid BBB songs all the time non-stop all day. Badly. Trust me, I have had entire math classes filled with nasally off key renditions of Goin' Steady. *Shudder*
3. It still has a significant number of male roles.
Lots of people have put up great suggestions. And I apologize to whoever said BBB. The movie is great, the score isn't that bad, but the experience of putting up BBB is just excruciating for everyone.
My advice: do a show that isn't incredibly well known like BBB is, and that way nobody will know if its bad or not because they won't be able to compare it to anything. And you won't have off key versions of every single song in every single class for weeks. Sweeny Todd is an excellent suggestion.
2006-06-30 17:48:10 · answer #4 · answered by ~!@eem@!~ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For High School Musicals, I would suggest the following:
Mame, Into the Woods, Lil' Abner, Sweet Charity, A Little Night Music, or Nunsense.
Plays-The Real Inspector Hound, Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Rumors, Fools...or my number one choice...
Noises off! Great fun!
2006-06-30 17:06:38 · answer #5 · answered by PeaceBabe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, my school luckily has a lot of really talented guys, not to mention, of course, the girls that seem to be in any school. In the past several years, we've done Snoopy (I think, that was before me) Godspell, Secret Garden, Joseph (this year) and next year we're doing Les Miserables. Also, you could do Footloose, or Hairspray. Oh, wait, maybe not Hairspray, that'd be really hard, to get all the right people and stuff. Anyway, just a few suggestions, hope it helped!
2006-07-01 06:03:48 · answer #6 · answered by emdk0615199010011990 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be great to preform the musical version of the nightmare before christmas. A few months ago it was a either the high school or the collage they preformed it (where i live) and i heard it was really good. I'm sorry i missed it. It took in a lot of money because all the kids wanted to go see it.
2006-06-30 15:24:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My old high school is doing Aida next year and I think that is an amazing choice, I'm so jealous!! And as far as a play, why not something like "The Crucible"? You get all of the female "witch" parts and the amazing Abigail Williams part. Look into it!
2006-07-01 06:10:46 · answer #8 · answered by Alex R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could do high school the musical. I know that sounds dorky but they do have it out so you can do it. It has both male and female leads in it and a bunch of chorus numbers. Then you could just a play that would be good would be just doing like a spring fling where it is a bunch of short little skits that you guys come up with yourselves we have done that before in my old high school and it was fun and the people loved it because it was fresh and their kids did it.
2006-07-01 01:49:08 · answer #9 · answered by cml75 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oklahoma
Cats or Hair (just kidding)
Non-musical, how about
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Romeo and Juliet
The Crucible ?
2006-06-30 16:22:54 · answer #10 · answered by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋