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    Posted: 9/17/12 at 11:02am
We are a small community theatre looking for a Christmas show, musical or comedy with a small cast 3-4 males 3-4 females. Any suggestions?

or any good comedies with that cast size

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Quote pdavis69 Replybullet Posted: 9/18/12 at 8:08am
A Dickens’ Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultous Acts
By Mark Landon Smith


From the author of Faith County and Faith County II comes the funniest Christmas Carol ever. The Styckes-Upon-Thump Repertory Company embarks on their fifteenth annual tour of the Dickens classic. When the company's diva feigns illness, certain the production will be canceled, this merry troupe of over the hill and upstart actors carry on without her. Roles are shuffled and the sweet understudy suddenly finds herself on stage knowing only one line of dialogue. She has written her part in and on almost everything, including the Christmas pudding! Midway through the doomed performance, the diva rushes in to reclaim her role. Total mayhem ensues as the company scrambles to keep the show going while everything goes hilariously wrong.

(Family friendly!)
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Quote Raging Thespian Replybullet Posted: 11/12/12 at 4:45pm
Norm Foster (Canadian playwright - frequently likened to Neil Simon) has a few very funny Christmas plays. Check out his website. They'll send you an email with free PDF version of any play if you ask. You can't print, or copy it, but at least you can read it and decide if you like it. Norm's plays are done all over North America. http://normfoster.com/synopsis.html
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Quote jonplaywright Replybullet Posted: 11/13/12 at 7:32pm
Arthur M. Jolly's The Christmas Princess (minimum cast 8, right at your limit) would be a fun and family-friendly choice.  It's available through YouthPLAYS here:
http://www.youthplays.com/plays/view/122/The_Christmas_Princess

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YouthPLAYS, plays for young actors and audiences
www.youthplays.com
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Quote TPtheater Replybullet Posted: 11/28/12 at 3:29pm
Midwest community theater - we sold out every night with the play FRUITCAKES.
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Quote TPtheater Replybullet Posted: 11/28/12 at 3:35pm
Midwest - We also sold out a couple of years ago with THE BENCH.
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Quote jayzehr Replybullet Posted: 11/28/12 at 4:30pm
We haven't done it but there's one called Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) that a lot of people have done well with.

It calls for three actors but I believe it's a very flexible script.
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Quote edh915 Replybullet Posted: 11/28/12 at 10:47pm
"Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)" is a great show. It's like a holiday version of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)". Three actors give their own truncated (and highly irreverent) versions of the Grinch, Rudolph, Frosty, Scrooge, Gift of the Magi, Charlie Brown, and It's A Wonderful Life - along with the Nutcracker, the Macy's Parade, and a whole lot more. Very prop heavy, but very funny. We did it a couple of years ago and the response was so positive, we'll be doing it again next year.
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Quote btremb Replybullet Posted: 12/07/12 at 12:45pm
We just did the play "Sorry Wrong Chimney".  This is the 3rd time in the last 24 years we've done it. Its by Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears.  Cast is 4 males and 3 Females. Audience really enjoys it.  Funniest part is the striptease.   
 
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