Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: What Shows Are We Doing?

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Originally posted by Kathy S

This season we are getting away from the old
chestnuts.  We just did The Underpants by Steve Martin, which drew
a smaller audience than we are used to.  Nobody ever heard of the
show, but we were kind of counting on the writer's name to pull in a
crowd.  Next we are doing "Play It Again, Sam", not an
overwhelmingly well-known show, and following it up with a
dramatization of two Truman Capote holiday stories called Holiday
Memories.  I am not looking for record-breaking houses, but they
will be good shows and that's really what we care the most about.
We'd love to do Ragtime, but don't have the diverse population to cast it.

Hey Kathy ... we're really going out on a limb this fall.  We're planning on producing Smoke On the Mountain!  
Since we only do one show a year, have no sponsorship and rely only on
ticket sales ... there's just no getting around the shows that bring in
money.  And then the audience talks about it for the next year.

We did Forever Plaid 5 years ago and we were getting numerous requests
to bring it back the following year ... still getting the requests, so
I guess we'll try to find a place for it next year.  We give 'em
what they want!

As for shows and casting ... why is it that most shows are written for
14 men and 3 women?  Don't any of these people work with community
theatre? 

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