Play Suggestions: A Season of Theatre Plays

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A Season of Theatre Plays

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Topic: A Season of Theatre Plays

Posted By: dramagoon
Subject: A Season of Theatre Plays
Date Posted: 3/15/12 at 9:28pm

I would like to propose that our CT do an entire season of theatre about theatre. I need suggestions of well-known, successful, shows about theatre or theatre-related topics. We need everything: Musicals, Dramas, Thrillers, Comedys, etc. Here is the list of possible shows so far:

The Goodbye Girl
[Title Of Show]
Noises Off
A Life In the Theatre
Lend Me A Tenor

Thanks in advance for your help on this.

Replies:

Posted By: hobbyactor
Date Posted: 3/16/12 at 12:12pm

The Producers

Barbecuing Hamlet or Luau for King Lear (by Pat Cook)

I Hate Hamlet

any of the Farndale plays

Posted By: dboris
Date Posted: 3/16/12 at 12:17pm

Moon Over Buffalo

Best Little Christmas Pagent Ever

There is also a music that has a similar plot to Noises Off, but I can't remember the title.

Posted By: bronco1pat
Date Posted: 3/16/12 at 12:20pm

try inspecting carol, theatre company doing xmas carol

Posted By: Martin
Date Posted: 3/16/12 at 12:34pm

A two-act murder mystery, The Man in Seat 24 or (The Uninvited Guest), has a cast of 15- 8 females and 7 males is published by Brooklyn Publishers. www.brookpub.com
Synopsis: An irate, rude, and combative theatre patron (in your audience!) hijacks the cast, the crew, and his fellow theatre-goers and winds up stone cold dead at center stage. The Man in Seat 24 Or (The Uninvited Guest) is a murder mystery, a play-within-a-play, where a harried and frazzled theatre director investigates a murder--during a night of theatre gone wrong--and realizes that there is more to this evening’s performance than meets the eye.

Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 3/16/12 at 1:36pm

In the "Musicals" category:

Applause
Follies
Funny Girl
Gypsy
Kiss Me Kate
Me and Juliet
Musical Chairs
Musical of Musicals, The Musical
Showboat

Posted By: Oberon
Date Posted: 3/16/12 at 3:40pm

You have got some good titles listed there.

How many shows in your season? I'm interested in seeing the final slate, though I'm not to sure mainstream audiences would get all the in-jokes nor appreciate the antics that comprise our theatrical lives for long.

I'm not here to squelch your goal but our audiences wouldn't want a whole year of us celebrating how great our milieu is; they like variety and feel-good stuff. Please, prove me wrong!