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Topic: Holiday Muscial or Show
Posted By: kaygreen
Subject: Holiday Muscial or Show
Date Posted: 6/09/09 at 12:54am
Our small community theater is looking for a holiday show - ideally a musical.  We're in a small town with a mixed pool of local talent, many more women than men, naturally.  There's a terrific vocal director available, hence our search for a musical.
 
We'd like to do a family show, one that can include a number of teens and children.
 
I appreciate any suggestions --  Xmas or otherwise seasonal.  Thanks!


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Posted By: belle
Date Posted: 6/09/09 at 1:00am
Dramatic Publishing Company has A Country Christmas Carol.  It has cute songs with a bit of a twang.  Here's the description from their web site:

Cast: 5m., 4w. (2 boys, 2 girls, expandable.) Seasons greetings from Marley County, U.S.A., where folks don't have a whole lot, but where everybody's doing what they can to make the Christmas holiday crackle. Except for one mean and miserly old coot who somehow misses the whole point. Ring a bell? It's Dickens' classic, dusted off and gussied up in a new country-western musical version. A Country Christmas Carol is ideal family holiday fare�fresh, engaging, often hilarious, and genuinely moving. It's a timeless tale of redemption and reunion, community and family, the kind of story that was made for country music. The score would make Patsy Cline proud, with show stopping ballads to snappy two-steps, sung by a feisty bunch who deal head-on with life's joys and heartaches. All the characters are here�with some nifty variations: Banker Scrooge, the man with the worst case of Christmas blues ever; his secretary Bobbie Jo Cratchit, a young widow with two small children, Jane and Tim; his lovable ne'er-do-well nephew Dwight; Lavinia, a good-ol'-girl with big hair and an even bigger heart; plus some decidedly Country Christmas spirits. This is a down-home pleasure from start to finish. Easy staging

We used about 25 actors all together.  It was very popular with our audience.

Posted By: Melvin
Date Posted: 6/28/09 at 1:45pm
Lotta Crabtree isn't a Christmas show, but it is definitely family friendly and fun to put on.  It's a Gold Rush comedy about the Shirley Temple of early California.  You'll need at least dynamite 9 - 12 year old who can sing and act.  Lots of saloon gals and crusty miners.  You can see it here: 
http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/OneActPlays/Blind_Date_Inc.htm - -  
http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Musicals/Lotta_Crabtree.htm

Posted By: diburbano
Date Posted: 6/28/09 at 4:16pm
Caddie Woodlawn! Many roles for kids and adults and some great songs
http://sleeptillnoonproductions.blogspot.com/2008/08/caddie-woodlawn.html - http://sleeptillnoonproductions.blogspot.com/2008/08/caddie-woodlawn.html

Posted By: teejaystudio
Date Posted: 8/28/09 at 3:40pm
Originally posted by kaygreen

Our small community theater is looking for a holiday show - ideally a musical.  We're in a small town with a mixed pool of local talent, many more women than men, naturally.  There's a terrific vocal director available, hence our search for a musical.
 
We'd like to do a family show, one that can include a number of teens and children.
 
I appreciate any suggestions --  Xmas or otherwise seasonal.  Thanks!


Best Christmas Pageant Ever or 1940's Radio Show

Posted By: Lazy Bee
Date Posted: 8/28/09 at 5:03pm
If your scope includes religious material, then there's http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/cgi-bin/Search_Results.asp?iSc=299 - Anna of Nazareth by Sue Gordon; firmly a Christmas show.

Otherwise, there's the http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Panto.htm - British Pantomime genre .  (Generally, you can't bill it as pantomime in the US, because the word takes the European meaning - a form of mime - rather than the British meaning, which is a family show with audience participation.)  http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/cgi-bin/Search_Results.asp?iAR=4&iC%281%29=1&iC%283%29=1&iC%284%29=1&sSp1=All_Scores - This list is shows which come with sets of original songs.  (In the UK it is also common to use "pop" songs in this type of show.)


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http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk - http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk read complete play scripts on-line

Posted By: bnk01
Date Posted: 9/05/09 at 3:09pm
You might also want to check out The Christmas Princess http://www.arthurjolly.com/princess.html - here - a modern fairy tale with lots of silliness and audience participation.

Posted By: lagazza
Date Posted: 9/24/09 at 3:23pm
A Christmas Survival Guide  from Samuel French

THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER - MTI

Two nice shows, fairly small casts

Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 9/27/09 at 8:33pm
A Civil War Christmas by Paul Vogel.

It premiered here at Long Wharf Theatre last year, and it's now available for amateur production. It has a large cast, lots of music (mostly historical Christmas songs), and is very moving.

It's handled by Dramatists Play Service.


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