Play Suggestions: Christmas

Christmas

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Topic: Christmas

Posted By: Squeegle
Subject: Christmas
Date Posted: 8/24/11 at 10:17am

am looking for a full length Christmas play. I am part of a small community theater. Casting shows over 10 to 15 people is difficult. We have done all the "classic" Christmas plays...from It's a Wonderful Life...to A Christmas Story...I am wondering if there is anything else out there...???

Help!!

Thanks!!

Miranda Koontz

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MK

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Posted By: bronco1pat
Date Posted: 8/24/11 at 10:48am

Inspecting Carol is a great show to do, about a community theatre doing a christmas carol, very funny, sort of has a noises off feel to it as well.. did great for me!

Posted By: bnk01
Date Posted: 8/24/11 at 11:03am

The Christmas Princess!
Funny, heartwarming, great for kids.
Download a perusal copy for free at
%20 - http://youthplays.com/plays/view/122#
or read about it here:
%20 - http://www.arthurjolly.com/princess.html

Posted By: donzolidis
Date Posted: 8/24/11 at 5:22pm

I have one that might work for you - "A Tiny Miracle with a Fiberoptic Unicorn" - here's the blurb:

"In the winter of 1986, thirteen-year-old Louis vows to kiss the love of his life, the quirky theater queen Carolyn, before Christmas. Standing in his way are the forces of puberty, his big-haired vitriolic older sister, his anal-retentive mother, and his eternally amused father. The surprise arrival of both grandmothers, each crazy in their own way, throws the family into turmoil and cracks Louis' world wide open."

It's very Neil-Simon-y and was just done by the Waukesha Community Theatre (Dramagoon); they had a great time with it. You can read the play for free here:

http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1426 - http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1426

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www.donzolidis.com

Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 8/24/11 at 7:44pm

We're doing one this year called FrUiTCaKeS, by Julian Wiles.

Think, "Christmas in Mayberry."

Funny characters and a "lump in your throat" happy ending.

Posted By: KeeKeeDee
Date Posted: 8/24/11 at 11:40pm

http://www.christopherdurang.com/FullCratchit.htm - Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge

Posted By: jonplaywright
Date Posted: 8/26/11 at 1:24am

Arthur Jolly's The Christmas Princess is indeed a great choice, particularly since its cast isn't too large. But try this link instead:
http://youthplays.com/plays/view/122 - http://youthplays.com/plays/view/122

Cheers,
Jonathan

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Co-Chair, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights
Resident Playwright, Final Draft

YouthPLAYS, plays for young actors and audiences
http://www.youthplays.com - www.youthplays.com

Posted By: falstaff29
Date Posted: 8/26/11 at 1:40am

Hmmm . . .

Depends on your audience, how risque you can get, how outside the box. On the naughtier side, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer by David Cerda and The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode are possibilities.

It's not full-length, but Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner is a moving piece.

Then there are some good to great plays that take place at Christmastime but are only nominally about the season: The Lion in Winter, The Seafarer, Reckless, Period of Adjustment.

Posted By: MartyW
Date Posted: 9/01/11 at 9:03am

One of my favorites is "Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in two tumultuous acts" This is anything but your normal Christmas carol. Small cast, lots of fun for cast and audience. It is a play within a play. The traveling reparatory theater "Stykes Upon Thump" are doing their 15th annual farewell performance of a Christmas carol. In true rep form, each actor takes on multiple characters. This is compounded when the company Diva decides she isn’t in the mood to perform and feigns ill. The other actors all shift roles to make the show go on. Which is fine till the Diva discovers they went on without her, comes back to claim her role (which the stand in does not want to give up) and all heck breaks loose! Fights on stage, costume sanfu's, and basically anything that can go wrong, does. All the way to the set collapsing around the performers in the final scene... Check it out for something different.

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Marty W

"Till next we trod the boards.."