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bullet Topic: Comedies I got, how's about a Drama!
    Posted: 10/05/07 at 6:16pm
Howdy everyone,

Comedies galore, too many to choose from. How's about a really good drama? Drama's are harder to sell, but we really need to round out the season.

We've done MOCKINGBIRD and MIRACLE WORKER and MICE AND MEN. All very well received. Ideas like that? Something with good name recognition...something classy?

Hey, I appreciate your responses.
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bullet Posted: 10/05/07 at 8:42pm
Agnes of God, The Runner Stumbles, anything by Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller, Glenngary Glen Ross, That Championship Season, The Shadow Box, Fifth of July, Angels in America ... gee - there are so many! 
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Proof, Doubt, Wit, Picnic, Art, Master Class, Grapes of Wrath, Last Night of Ballyhoo, Diary of Anne Frank, The Crucible, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Children's Hour, The Heiress, Mass Appeal, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Driving Miss Daisy, Wait until Dark, A Few Good Men, Stalag 17, Inherit the Wind, A Veiw from the Bridge, Amadeus, 12 Angry Men, Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond, The Rainmaker, The Elephant Man, just to name a few.

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To be nice about it, The Runner Stumbles is not my favorite show. I don't understand how it gets done as much as it does.

 
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bullet Posted: 10/06/07 at 1:04am
I just read a play called "Ladies in Retirement".  We are planning to do this for our fall play next year.  Really worth reading.
"Rememberance" is another really good one.  I saw that several years ago and I loved it.  Great Story.
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bullet Posted: 10/06/07 at 4:01am
Originally posted by donzolidis

To be nice about it, The Runner Stumbles is not my favorite show. I don't understand how it gets done as much as it does.




Hey now! Sister Rita is one of the best things on my resume.    But in the interest of understanding, I think its the fact that the set is very minimalistic and can be done with basically nothing but lights and a black stage.
"If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights."
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bullet Posted: 10/06/07 at 4:02am
oooh, what about "The Boys Next Door", definitely funny, but very dramatic as well.
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bullet Posted: 10/06/07 at 4:32am
I agree with anything Tennesee Williams. Also Neil Simon's Lost In Yonkers and Broadway Bound. Lost in Yonkers is more dramatic, but both have a comic element without overtaking the Drama.
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bullet Posted: 10/06/07 at 6:48am
Originally posted by donzolidis

To be nice about it, The Runner Stumbles is not my favorite show. I don't understand how it gets done as much as it does.



blasphemy!

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bullet Posted: 10/06/07 at 8:54am
Also look at plays written by Horton Foote.  Lots of characters with lots of emotions that most people can relate to.  Alice 
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