Small shows that we've done with low production needs:

• Murder at the Howard Johnsons (requires a motel room set)
• The Man with the Plastic Sandwich
• Rounding Third
• Soccer Moms
• The Guys
• Musical revues
• I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
• Golf: The Musical
• Married Alive!
• Five Course Love

Two shows come to mind:

1st:  And Then They Came for me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank written by James Still. We did it with nine, but it can be done with 6 by doubling. I think the Broadway show had just 6.

It is a very, very dramatic show; It will grip both your actors and your audience from the opening sequence to the end. It is a multi-media show in that in addition to the live actors on stage, you also have two of them on a projection screen or on TV screens on each side of the stage. We used the large drop down screen at the back of our small stage with a couple of simple wall units painted black on each side.

The video will show two friends of Anne Frank being interviewed as well as many video images of life in Germany and Holland from during the war. In addition there is an audio track.

Be forewarned; this is a very demanding show. Due to it's back and forth between live action and video, timing and rehearsal is everything. In all my years I have never seen a more demanding yet delightful script!

My season ticket holders still talk about it. it was the first play I put on when I came to this school. They had not had a theatre program in over 35 years. So I chose the most demanding, most unforgiving play to challenge my kids and at the same time let the community know we were serious about doing great theatre!

On a side note to dramatize the ending we added one little bit to our non-curtain call...we played that haunting violin solo from Schindlers List. It brought many of our audience members to tears.

The other play I would highly recommend is Neil Simons comedy, The Odd Couple. Only we did the FEMALE version. It is newer and very tightly You need 6 women and 2 men. It is Simon and that pretty much says it all.

The Foursome by Norm Foster
Four college buddies at a reunion have a revealing round of golf.
One set = the tee off for each hole of the golf course - the set doesn't change at all or much from hole to hole.
Four great character roles for men aged late 30's to mid 40's.

How about Romance, Romance, from MTI?