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bullet Posted: 11/04/06 at 12:40pm

Congratulations - you are on your way to a fabulous adventure.  Break legs!

I agree with the above - almost any Neil Simon will sell well - especially Plaza Suite, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, The Sunshine Boys or Lost in Yonkers.

Other comedies:  I Hate Hamlet, Blithe Spirit, Shakespeare Abridged, Art, and Moon Over Buffalo.

Also, a thriller like Deathtrap, The Mousetrap or Wait Until Dark - these have relatively small casts (no more than 8) and will delight your audiences.

Lucky Stiff is a musical farce - very funny - and can be done with a small cast if you double parts, which can make for very funny costume and make up accessories.

Another musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change - 4 actors - and everyone seems to do well with ticket sales for this show.  Or try The Last Five Years - two actors singing about their relationship in opposite order.  A very good piece.

Dramas will not generally sell as well as comedies, but On Golden Pond may be one of the few exceptions to that rule.

Again, congrats on your new adventure! 

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bullet Posted: 11/05/06 at 11:18pm
Thank you so much for all of your suggestions.  This may be asking a lot, but do you know who holds the copyrights for them?
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bullet Posted: 11/06/06 at 8:18am

It isn't difficult finding the publisher for a play.  Just type in the title and it will give you the information.

http://playdatabase.com

I found this site a few years back and it can help you.  Once you order scripts then you will start getting the different publishers catalogs!

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If theater is so new to the area, I suggest a name people recognize.  I saw Aladdin Jr. done with all Middle and High School kids, I did it with 1-12 graders myself.  For me, a friend searched the web and found and adult group who did it and it was aweasome.  Broadway Jr. gives you everything you need for first timers.  I did a little altering to it.  But you have to with do what ya gotta do to get it done!
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The royalties are not exactly low, but you can hardly go wrong with Forever Plaid.  We've done it twice and the crowd absolutely loves it.  The nostalgic songs listed will bring in the type of audience that you're wanting to play to.

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I agree with Scott B. Forever Plaid is a great show!
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I've looked at some of the Jr scripts and thought they cut out a lot of the meat of the shows, some of my favorite songs.  I'd want to enhance the scripts, too.  I'm assuming you had to get written permission from MTI to change the script.  Was that hard to do?
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bullet Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:26pm
Originally posted by charlz

Rounding Third by Richard Dresser, comedy, 2 men, kind of an Odd Couple
approach to coaching little league baseball. There is "a van" in it, but that
can be suggested. It sold very well at our theater.

Good luck.
 
 
I'll be directing Rounding Third at my ct this summer and possibly taking a cutting of it to a drama festival.  How did you do the suggestion of the van?  There's no way that we can have a real van or even the shell of a real van on our stage an I'm trying to think of ways to suggest the it.
 
I'm also going to post this on one of the tech topics as well.
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bullet Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:17pm
6 chairs, lit by one spot, with the driver holding a "wheel" (or pantomime)
 
Choreograph it so people "move" with the road.
 
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bullet Posted: 12/12/06 at 12:30am
  Scott B and Theatrestation have it right!  We also have done "Forever Plaid" twice (seven years apart) and have been asked by many patrons to add it to the upcoming season.  This is truly a show that "leaves them wanting more"!
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