Any suggestions for a non-cheezy high school large cast play to be adapted for dinner theatre? Please help!!?

Question

- may or may not be comedy
- nothing too difficult acting-wise since cast is fairly weak

Answer 1

Guys and Dolls
Cabaret
Grease
Chicago!!

Answer 2

Do you think you can do something like Tony and Tina's wedding? It has a large cast, incorporates the audience as wedding guests, and includes dinner as part of the reception.

With a weak cast, maybe you want to have a couple of extra bouquets you can throw in case something goes terribly wrong!

Answer 3

Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, CATS, Wicked, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat... those are some of my favorites. My school is doing Aladdin this year. Blech!

Answer 4

Neil Simon's - Little Me
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Pajama Game

Answer 5

Certainly it depends on the dinner theater, the audience, and the viability or timeliness of the subject.

As for High School performers you could pick from Dozens.

As far back as WEST SIDE STORY

then,,,

Grease
Cats
Rent
Chicago,,, modified

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Check this link as well

Steven Wolf

40 plus years of theater involvement

Answer 6

Here are some non-traditional options?

(1) Ionesco's "Rhinoceros"
(2) Sartre's "The Wall"
(3) Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey"

Answer 7

Bye Bye Birdy

Answer 8

Check out "The Mouse That Roared" it's a lot of fun, tons of great characters, and not too difficult.

Answer 9

if it's a dinner theatre, music, magic and dancing should be apart of it, and keep dialogue to a minimum, and if possible maybe get some audience participation

Answer 10

you didn't mention if you wanted a musical or not.

If you want a straight play, look at "You Can't Take It With You," "Born Yesterday," "The Desk Set," "Dinner at Eight," "The Enchanted," "The Madwoman of Chaillot," or "Stage Door"