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Laff
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Topic: Favorite play
Posted: 9/06/07 at 7:26pm

I just wanted to know what everyones favorite play was

break a leg!

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Kathy S
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Posted: 9/07/07 at 12:13am

My "favorite play" changes from time to time depending on my mood. Or depending on what play I am currently involved in! Or what play I just saw! Or what play I am currently reading! Or what play I am currently directing! They range from "Steel Magnolias" to "Jerry Springer the Opera" to "Oklahoma" to "Goodbye Charlie" to "Waltz of the Toreadors" to "Dearly Departed" and on and on and on!

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Mr. Lowell
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Posted: 9/07/07 at 2:04pm

My favorite is still, "The Return to the Forbidden Planet", a Shakespearean Sci-fi Musical.

See my old post about this show:

http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2256

Mr. Lowell,
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for the Linda Sloan Theatre,
in the Davison Center for the Arts,
at Greensboro Day School

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MartyW
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Posted: 9/07/07 at 2:11pm

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pdavis69
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Posted: 9/07/07 at 4:25pm

I have to vote for Escanaba in da Moonlight. It may be a regional appeal. It's set in the upper penisula in Michigan. I don't know how well it plays across the country or world, but I love it.

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Posted: 9/08/07 at 8:17pm

Musical: absolutely, Gypsy. (I've played each of the strippers and Dainty June; someone around here better do it soon before I get too old to play Rose)

Book show: wow....tough call! A Shayna Maidel, I guess.

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Posted: 9/09/07 at 5:32am

Originally posted by pdavis69

I have to vote for Escanaba in da Moonlight. It may be a regional appeal. It's set in the upper penisula in Michigan. I don't know how well it plays across the country or world, but I love it.

A local theater here (Illinois)has just brought this show back "by popular demand" and I'm sure they will do it again next year. It was just a huge hit for them and everyone I've talked to that participated would basically be laughing too hard to tell me much about it.

"If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights."

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Posted: 9/09/07 at 8:16pm

Mine would have to be 'Man Of La Mancha', which is a play with music rather than a musical, according to the author.
I had one of those magical moments in theatre. When after finishing reading the script through for the first time, the mise en scene & blocking fell into place. Then it was just a question of putting the warm props into to complete it. Then restrain myself from building upon & enhance, those creative accidents, that come out of the proceeding process.
I keep wanting to produce it again & again!

Joe
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turn right @ Perth.
Hear the light & see the sound.
Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"}
May you always play
to a full house}

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Posted: 9/10/07 at 12:30am

I agree with KathyS. I usually have a "flavour of the month" BUT Steel Magnolias, A Piece of my Heart and Fiddler On the Roof seem to hover at the top.

The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

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Posted: 9/10/07 at 1:24am

I would have to say my vote goes to DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER, but it's probably due to the wonderful experiences with the cast, crews, and director as much as the play itself (very funny show!). It has been about five years since we staged that show and to this day, everything about that play made a great memory for me.

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