musical without dancing
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Topic: musical without dancing
Posted By: GoldCanyonLady
Subject: musical without dancing
Date Posted: 5/28/07 at 11:37am
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Our Village Players have never done a musical and maybe it is about time, but I was wondering if there are any good musicals without a lot of dancing. I am not sure if we have a choreographer in our midst, but we do have good singers. Oh and this shouldn't be a children's musical. All of our actors are mature adults over 45 who can act young, but the audience is mostly active seniors citizens. ------------- Barb Hofmeister, MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona. |
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Posted By: donzolidis
Date Posted: 5/28/07 at 11:40am
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There are many terrific musicals out there that don't require much in the way of dancing.
Anything by Sondheim--Into the Woods, Company (small cast, difficult songs)
Guys and Dolls doesn't have to have much dancing in it to work. A little here and there, I suppose.
Gilbert and Sullivan--HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance
Don ------------- www.donzolidis.com |
Posted By: biggertigger
Date Posted: 5/28/07 at 9:46pm
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Depending on what you are really looking for there are many shows that can fit this criteria.
There are some darker musicals that are crowd pleasers like Jekyll and Hyde, Little Shop of Horrors, City of Angels, and Man of La Mancha. You may want to look at Follies, Titanic, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, or many of the Nunsens musicals. And then there are some wonderful review shows like Putting it Together, Side By Side By Sondeim, and many others.
Most musicals can use simple staging for choreography. There are many shows that require elaborate production numbers and these shows should be "wow" factors. But with these other shows you can have the same "wow" factor with creative staging. ------------- The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes. |
Posted By: red diva
Date Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:36am
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"Working", "Assassins", any of the "retrospective" musicals dedicated to a particular composer or singer. ------------- "I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!" |
Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:05pm
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Pippin.... Oh sorry different discussion. ------------- Marty W "Till next we trod the boards.." |
Posted By: B-M-D
Date Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:14pm
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I Love You, You're Perfect...Now Change
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"Dying is easy, comedy is hard." |
Posted By: red diva
Date Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:42pm
You have a real mean streak. Picture an emoticon with his tongue sticking out here: (there wasn't one included among the choices....believe me, I looked).
And....by the way......there is a LOT of dancing in Pippin. (another tongue out emoticon) Which was choreographed by yours truely, thank you very much. Of course, I was a young teenaged dancer then. ------------- "I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!" |
Posted By: teridtiger
Date Posted: 5/29/07 at 2:54pm
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"Godspell" and "She Loves Me" both have little to no dancing, depending on if you wish to make the one chorus number in "She Loves Me" be dance-y or not.
Both are very family friendly shows, too.
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Posted By: Aimee
Date Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:25pm
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1940's Radio Hour does not have a lot of dancing, of course there is no singing until about half way through too. ------------- Aimee |
Posted By: GoldCanyonLady
Date Posted: 5/30/07 at 9:51am
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Where do you get the book, music etc for She Loves Me, You're Perfect, Now Change? ------------- Barb Hofmeister, MountainBrook Village Players, Gold Canyon, Arizona. |
Posted By: teridtiger
Date Posted: 5/30/07 at 10:54am
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"She Loves Me" is available through MTI: http://www.mtishows.com/show_home.asp?ID=000141 - http://www.mtishows.com/show_home.asp?ID=000141
It's an adorable show with memorable music. The movie "You've Got Mail" was based on the original story, which was also the inspiration for the Judy Garland movie musical "In the Good Old Summertime". We performed it around Valentine's Day, although because the culmination of the story's events happen on Christmas, it's also good for that time of year, too. Jack Cassidy won the Tony for his supporting role in the original Broadway production. Even though it's not a "big name" show, we sold well and our audiences really loved it!
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Posted By: biggertigger
Date Posted: 5/30/07 at 2:13pm
http://www.rnh.com/theatricals/show.php?show_id=90 - http://www.rnh.com/theatricals/show.php?show_id=90
This is the direct link to the webpage and they have a sampling of the show music too.
It is a fun and popular show that seems to draw the crowds in. ------------- The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes. |