Hi, I would like some help making a decision on next spring's production for our middle school.  I am considering The Sound of Music (however student comments are that it is soooooo boring.....    Has anyone directed or been involved in this before?  If so, did the actors have a positive experience?  Where would I purchase a script?  The usual play companies don't have it listed?

I guess there's always the musical du jour: Disney's High School Musical.   Beauty & the Beast you better have a very large costume budget.  Renting them ain't cheap and neither would making them (if you want to do it right).    

Check out MTI's Broadway Junior selections. Music Man, Annie. I agree that Music Man would not be as much fun for them as Beauty and the Beast.

I have to agree with your students ... "Sound of Music" is boooring - and l-o-n-g. I swear the only people who enjoy it are octogenarians - and they always sing along

In addition to the aforementioned costume plot challenges in "Beauty and the Beast," there is that pesky magic thing that be a real guffaw if it doesn't work!

But, in response to "did the actors have a positive experience?" ... I've found that almost every high school cast ends up with a positive experience, even if they didn't start out caring for the play. Once they work hard studying, finding and expressing their characters, memorizing lines and music and choreography and blocking, etc. etc. etc., it's hard not to have a feeling of accomplishment and reward when it's showtime.

Originally posted by tristanrobin I have to agree with your students ... "Sound of Music" is boooring - and l-o-n-g. I swear the only people who enjoy it are octogenarians - and they always sing along