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    Posted: 5/20/09 at 9:27am
Hi,
 
I need suggestions for a fall play - a comedy, please, with a largish cast of mostly girls, but can have a few boys as well?
 
Or maybe a mystery?
 
All suggestions welcome!
 
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bullet Posted: 5/20/09 at 1:09pm
Try searching in the play database (www.playdatabase.com).  Click on "find a play" at the top and you can search by your criteria (comedy, # of males/females, # of acts, etc.).  Hope this helps.
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bullet Posted: 5/20/09 at 5:21pm

For a full-length, I'd suggest my play, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, (accommodates a cast from 5-40, can definitely be girl-heavy.) Think The Compleat Works of Shakespeare (abridged) meets the fairy tales of the brothers grimm.

But don't take my word for it, you can read it on-line here:
 
 
I also have a brand-new play out called The SeussOdyssey (which is exactly what it sounds like, the Odyssey of Homer as if written by Dr. Seuss), again, you can have a huge cast - a little more boy-heavy perhaps, but lots of parts for girls as well. You can read that here:
 
 
Then there's always A Midsummer Night's Dream which is always hilarious and has good roles for girls.
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Are you looking for full length or One Act?
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bullet Posted: 5/20/09 at 6:02pm
Herewith a list of possible comedies or refine your search here
(the list is shows with run times greater than 30 minutes and includes shows with music - you don't say whether or not want to exclude musical offerings).
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bullet Posted: 5/28/09 at 4:50pm

I have been searching for these same types of shows, too!  Here's what I found:

Love of a Pig by Leslie Caveny
Arsenic & Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (change Klein, Brophy, Gibbs, & Witherspoon to girls)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
 
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My 45-minute play, 'Mothers Have Nine Lives' (linked monologues about mothers and daughters) accommodates a cast of up to 12 girls, and has had a number of successful high school productions.
 
 
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If you decide on A Midsummer Night's Dream (excellent parts for girls), you might go for a shorter version. http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/YouthTheatre/A_Midsummer_Nights_Dream_GM.htm

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My new murder mystery, The Man in Seat 24 or (The Uninvited Guest), has a cast of 15- 8 females and 7 males- and is published by Brooklyn Publishers.
     Synopsis: An irate, rude, and combative theatre patron (in your audience!) hijacks the cast, the crew, and his fellow theatre-goers and winds up stone cold dead at center stage. The Man in Seat 24 Or (The Uninvited Guest) is a murder mystery, a play-within-a-play, where a harried and frazzled theatre director investigates a murder--during a night of theatre gone wrong--and realizes that there is more to this evening’s performance than meets the eye.

You may also wish to consider one of my earlier plays, Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl, from Heuer Publishing, with a flexible cast of 21.
     Synopsis: Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl is a modern melodrama that chronicles a ridiculous day and the challenges and struggles of a young woman who makes a living manufacturing doughnuts and sweet pastries in a small town doughnut factory. Structured as a radio program complete with phony commercials, parody songs, audience participation, and listener call-in spots, Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl stretches theatrical forms but is deeply rooted in awful puns and wrapped around an apple pie and a cup of coffee of small town life.
Types: Full Length Play, Community Theatre
Genres: Comedy, Melodrama
Cast: 6 men, 7 women, 8 extras, flexible cast, 21 total

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bullet Posted: 6/13/09 at 7:26pm
May I suggest IMMACULATE DECEPTION by Sëan Moran ... a murder mystery convent whodunit comedy in two acts.

At the Convent of the Holy Inquisition, the Sisters of Christ on the Cross are dropping off like flies. Old age? Accidents? A punishment from God? No — MURDER! But who, what, where, when and why? Join the mystery and the fun with body number one — a sweetly departed nun.

Cast: 7 women, 2 men

The play was written for a drama class at an all-girls school. More information and to request a free perusal copy here:
http://gowiththefloprods.com/immaculateplay.php
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