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Topic: HS non musical show suggestions needed!

Posted By: Artctrish
Subject: HS non musical show suggestions needed!
Date Posted: 10/24/09 at 10:07pm

Hi everyone- been lurking for a while and have found a great wealth of info here! A little history before my question...

I know this is for CT forum but I have transitioned from CT to teaching at a private k-12 school. In 2 years we've come along way...we did Sound of Music and it was a huge hit...esp for a school with a small stage and no theatre reputation. We've done "Cheaper by the Dozen", "SoM", and our "Ramona Quimby" is opening next month. All advice appreciated....

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Posted By: Mr. Lowell
Date Posted: 10/25/09 at 2:02pm

A show with a strong male lead is a comedy called "Teahouse of the August Moon". When I did it in high school, we used a girl to play the male Japanese comic relief character of Sakini opposite Captain Fisby, and that worked fine. The only other medium-sized male role was Col. Purdy. Then most of the villagers were played by girls.

And when I was in acting class in high school we did a serious drama called "David and Lisa", which was a teenage boy and girl, with minor male parts such as the father.

A heavy drama with a really challenging male lead is "Flowers for Algernon", (the movie version was called "Charly").

But two much easier plays with nice roles for a strong high school male who is good in comedy would be "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "Harvey".

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Mr. Lowell,
Lighting/Set Designer & Tech Director,
for the Linda Sloan Theatre,
in the Davison Center for the Arts,
at Greensboro Day School

Posted By: Artctrish
Date Posted: 10/25/09 at 3:09pm

Interesting that you mention "flowers"..I read a one act version and loved it. Is there a longer version available? Thank you!

Posted By: Mr. Lowell
Date Posted: 10/25/09 at 4:19pm

In 1976 my school did the full-length play, Flowers for Algernon, written by David Rogers in 1969. Sorry, I don't know the script company or whether it is still available. You'll have to research for that...

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Mr. Lowell,
Lighting/Set Designer & Tech Director,
for the Linda Sloan Theatre,
in the Davison Center for the Arts,
at Greensboro Day School

Posted By: donzolidis
Date Posted: 10/26/09 at 12:27am

I have a few shows which might work for you.

BTW, I'm sure your actor doesn't mind having 23 "kids" looking up to him, when so many of them are girls.

My most popular show is called The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon which can be done with as few as 5 actors and as many as 40 - the most difficult role is that of "Actor" who is forced to perform a one-man version of Cinderella. You can read that play online here:

http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1162 - http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1162

Or you could try The Craving which is a play about a screenwriter (your male lead) who writes a heartwrenching emotional screenplay which is then taken by Hollywood producers and transformed into a slasher zombie flick. Read it here:

http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1425 - http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1425

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www.donzolidis.com

Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 11/01/09 at 7:57am

Anna of the Tropics by Nilo Cruz

from the Samuel French catalog:

Drama
Full Length

5 men, 3 women: 8 total
Flexible Set

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. "The words of Nilo Cruz waft from a stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both a specific place and time—and in timeless passions that touch us all…In ANNA IN THE TROPICS, Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship and poetic power…[Cruz] has turned out many wonderful plays—but none more shimmeringly beautiful than ANNA IN THE TROPICS." —Miami Herald. "In evoking the lost Cuban–American world of a Florida cigar factory in 1929, Mr. Cruz has created a work as wistful and affectingly ambitious as its characters. ANNA IN THE TROPIC reaches for the artistic heavens…" —NY Times. "…enticing and exotic…entrancingly lovely…" —Variety

Book/Item: ANNA IN THE TROPICS
Price: $7.50
ISBN/Code: 978-0-8222-2000-8

FEE: $75 per performance.

THE STORY: ANNA IN THE TROPICS is a poignant and poetic new play set in Florida in 1929 in a Cuban–American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics and the American dream prove a volatile combination.

Wonderful play - excellent leading male role

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http://tristanrobin.blogspot.com

Posted By: Ogreking4
Date Posted: 11/04/09 at 4:45pm

You might try "The Ten Rules of Internet Dating" from Hitplays.com

Synopsis:Matt Wilson, a recently divorced dentist, finds himself forced to move in with his younger brother, Joe. Joe considers himself an Internet dating aficionado, and vows to find his big brother new love using "The Ten Rules of Internet Dating." Quick dialogue and quirky characters abound as the duo battle falsehoods, sibling rivalry, Pakistani cuisine, and a professional wrestler to fulfill Joe's promise. In the end, the brothers find that love can be a strange thing found in unlikely places.

Script preview:
http://scriptpreview.hitplays.com/TENRULESOFINTERNETDATING=071607.pdf