HS Musical with Predominately Female Roles
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Topic: HS Musical with Predominately Female Roles
Posted By: GashlycrumbTiny
Subject: HS Musical with Predominately Female Roles
Date Posted: 7/28/10 at 3:42pm
Does anyone know of a high school appropriate small-cast musical with predominately female roles? We literally have like 2-3 boys and over a dozen girls in our drama department.
Any input would be very much appreciated.
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde
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Posted By: Lazy Bee
Date Posted: 8/02/10 at 12:37pm
When are you intending to stage it?
The reason for that question is http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/cgi-bin/Search_Results.asp?iSc=299 - Anna of Nazareth by Sue Gordon - the Christmas story from an unusual perspective.
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Stuart
Lazy Bee Scripts
http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk - http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk read complete play scripts on-line
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Posted By: GashlycrumbTiny
Date Posted: 8/02/10 at 8:36pm
We're staging it in the spring, so I'm afraid that wouldn't work. Thank you though. ^_^
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde
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Posted By: lagazza
Date Posted: 8/04/10 at 8:57pm
Brenda Bly: Teen Detective
Book and Lyrics by Kevin Hammonds: Music by Charles Miller
Synopsis
It's 1958 — a time of rock and roll, space discovery, and great hope for a bright future.
But trouble is brewing at the Whitney Ellis Private School
For Girls. Only days away from the opening night of the end of term
musical, "Rocket Girl",
the leading lady is knocked unconscious
with a sandbag. Once again it is up to our favourite
teenage sleuth, Brenda Bly, to solve the crime, catch the crook and save
the day.
CAST: M3-9 F9-13.
SCENES: Various simple settings
Instrumentation:, Keyboard II, Drums, Bass
Seems like a fun show. Samples on youtube.
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Posted By: Melvin
Date Posted: 8/08/10 at 1:11pm
Here's a pretty popular show that is mostly girls, and you could probably get by with three guys. It's called Drama Club Must Die. The plot deals with a drama club which is on the chopping block because of (surprise!) school budget cuts. They must write and produce their own version of The Wizard of Oz in just one week. Check it out here:
http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/YouthTheatre/Drama_Club_Must_Die.htm
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Posted By: mrlloyd23
Date Posted: 8/12/10 at 3:19pm
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Bye Bye Birdie has lots of female parts, but you need at least three strong men to play the parts of Conrad Biride, Albert Peterson and Mr. MacAfee. There's also a four part male course, but we had girls do those parts and it went off without a hitch. It's a really fun show that really resonated with our students and our community.
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Posted By: Nyria
Date Posted: 12/16/10 at 3:44pm
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Annie, Wizard of Oz (if you don't mind females playing some of the 'male' parts) Alice in wonderland -- many of the characters are fantasy so they can be male OR female.
Nunsense (for a very small cast)
You can also do a musical review or Cabaret where you pick different scenes and songs from various plays.
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NYRIA
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Posted By: cestdiva
Date Posted: 12/19/10 at 1:15am
"The Boyfriend" can be done with very few males. It's a classic and who doesn't love the 1920s?
"Suds: The Rocking 60s Musical Soap Opera" has 3 females and 1 male. It's a comic romp through all the best songs of the 60s.
Good luck and let us know what you choose and how it went! :-)
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Cecily Gish
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Posted By: ChanaGoanna
Date Posted: 12/22/10 at 12:57pm
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Take a look at "Dear Edwina" from MTI. There's a junior version available as well.
http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000212 - http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000212
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Posted By: jmausser
Date Posted: 1/03/11 at 3:12pm
I've certainly struggled with the same problem of having too few guys. Here are the musicals I've done over the past few years: "Little Shop of Horrors" (3 guys: Seymour, Mushnik, Dentist), "The King & I" (3 guys: King, Kralahome, Sir Edward/Captain), "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" (I had about 5 guys for this one but I think you could do it with just 2: King and Prince), "Wizard of Oz" (3 guys: Lion/Zeke, Wizard/Marvel, Guard/Uncle Henry), and "High Spirits" (2 guys: Charles, Mr. Bradman). This last one is the rarely done adaptation of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spriit". I chose it in large part because it could be done with just two guys. Our audience was smaller due to a lack of name recognition but the show was a lot of fun.
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Director in Leavenworth
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Posted By: Mr. Lowell
Date Posted: 1/10/11 at 9:26am
We did a musical with just a few boy roles called "Smile!"...a satire of beauty pageants in the 1980's.
(We used every girl who auditioned)
http://www.lowell.to/Studio/smile12.jpg - http://www.lowell.to/Studio/smile12.jpg
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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
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Posted By: LabRat
Date Posted: 1/20/11 at 8:10am
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If you haven't committed yet, then I would second the "Dear Edwina Junior" suggestion. It could very well be one of the most overlooked titles in the MTI catalogue. It is absolutely perfect for "Junior" range, as it provides almost everyone in the cast with their 30 seconds of fame.
Staged as a series of Vingettes, it's easy to break down the rehearsals into particular groups, and there's no one clear "LEAD" as so many shows have. We did this last year, and I'm stuck this year trying to come up with something just as brilliant for the kids to do.
See the slideshow of our production (and hear some of the music) in the MTISHOWSPACE.
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The part isn't yours, until it is offered to you.
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Posted By: TonyDi
Date Posted: 1/21/11 at 7:35am
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How about "A - My Name Is Alilce" - details follow:
The format is that of a musical revue of 20 or so songs and sketches performed by a five member cast of women of different ages and types in a 'wide variety of situations and relationships with insight, empathy and self deprecating humour.’ The women have names in some of the sketches and songs, in others they are simply name "first actress", etc. Each of the cast members introduces herself by reciting an adult update on the children's ABC rhyme. One example: "A ... my name is Alice, And my husband's name is Adam, And his girlfriend's name is Amy, And my lover's name is Abby, And her husband's name is Arnie, And his boyfriend's name is Allan, And my analyst's name is Arthur, And we're working on my anger".
This has run here in town several times and there is even a sequel to this show as well. Every time it's run it's done VERY well at the box office and it's a hit smash every time it has. Check it out. Written by women for women to perform.
TonyDi
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"Almost famous"
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Posted By: NDTENOR
Date Posted: 1/21/11 at 9:25pm
First thing that comes to mind is a musical review called "Jerry's Girls" which is an entirely all girl review of the songs of Jerry Herman of Hello Dolly fame. It does require some very good voices.
And would I suppose "Little Women" ( The musical ) is too obvious. I think you need only 3 or 4 guys for the show and the number of girls is is variable ... ranging from 5 or 6 to 12 or 13.
And , of course , there's "9" which is 1 guy and 18 to 23 "girls". . But rather an "Adult" show and not really a high school show.
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