What plays has your school performed?

Question

and with what styles of dancing? (hiphop,jazz, tap, etc.)

Answer 1

Well, way back when i was in school :-) We did

The Diary of Anne Frank - no dancing really
My Fair Lady - mixed styles including some ballroom
Music Man - Mostly inspired from jazz I guess
I forget what else we did... that's bad.

My daughter's school has done:
Thoroughly Modern Millie - Tap, Jazz
Crazy For You - Tap & Jazz
Seussical - all over the place, jazz mostly

They've also done shows outside of school:
High School Musical - Jazz, Hip Hop, etc.
King & I - ballroom, ballet, etc.
Anything Goes - Jazz, Tap
Grease - Jazz (I guess that's what you'd call it)
Sound of Music - not much dancing
South Pacific - jazz
Les Miserables - not much dancing, very little ballroom in the wedding scene
Miracle on 34th St. - no dancing
Fiddler on the Roof - Traditional
A Christmas Carol - no dancing that I remember....
Pajama Game - Tap, Jazz
Oliver - Hard to describe... jazz?
Wizard of Oz - jazz
Annie - jazz, tap (depends on how it's choreographed)
Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - my kids were in the children's chorus, no dancing but the wives danced, I would say jazz.

MusicalTheatreAudition.com & StageAgent.com can give some info on the dancing ability that will be expected for each show if that's the info you're after. I guess I'm not sure what you're looking for. Check out those sites.

Good luck

Answer 2

My school is obsessed with doing shows that aren't well-known (even to the common thespian). In the past two years I've performed in: What the Bellhop Saw (no dance), Merrily We Roll Along (simple choreography, not really even dance), The Boardinghouse (no dance), and The Boyfriend (tap, ballroom, & 20s-style dancing).

Answer 3

My highschool performed "Denny and the Witches," "The Boys Next Door," and a children's Christmas show.

My Jr. college did "Anton in Show Business," "Once Upon a Shoe," "Medea," "Admissions," "The Mineola Twins," "Committed," "The Great Cross Country Race," and "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress."

And at my university we've done "Anton in Show Business," "The Tempest," "Bobby Gould in Hell," "Night of the Iguana," "China Dolls," "Servant of Two Masters," "Grease," "How I Learned to Drive," "Blithe Spirit," "Six Degrees of Separation," a Vaudeville review, "Tribute," "Dimly Percieved Threats to the System," and "Tintypes."

As far as the dancing, we did some hip-hop-esque moves in "Great Cross-Country Race," "Grease" was done very traditional so salsa and 50's style dancing in the dance scenes, and "Tintypes" has ragtime and other early 20th century dancing in it.

Answer 4

1776 - I wasn't there, I don't really know what they did but I imagine it was a little of everything.

Oliver - Mostly tap

Once Upon a Mattress - Weird combination of tap, softshoe, and general improv

A Midsummer Night's Dream - We put music to that and did a lot of whatever kind of dancing was popular in '30s musicals, and Puck had a tap thing.

We've done more than that but those were straight plays.

Answer 5

Oliver
Fiddler on the Roof
1776
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma
Lil Abner

Answer 6

Well... My school did this thing called Kids for America. That involved some regular simple dance moves. The year before it was the Pied Piper. That involved skipping and Kazoos..

Answer 7

Grease

Answer 8

Little shop of horrors (jazz and tap), Seussical the musical (jazz and tap), Grease (swing), and I'll name one more uh..the wizard of oz

Answer 9

We had loads, Bugsy Malone, Little Shop of Horrors, Grease

Answer 10

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