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New Year's Eve show?

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Topic: New Year's Eve show?

Posted By: redhead
Subject: New Year's Eve show?
Date Posted: 8/19/12 at 8:53pm

Our theatre is looking for a musical to open on New Year's Eve. The cast would be high school and college-aged kids. We'd probably have 40-50 actors to work with. Any ideas? Thanks!

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Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 8/19/12 at 9:28pm

Two wildly different shows come to mind.

"Celebration!" - a musical by the men who wrote "The Fantasticks". It's an allegory that takes place on New Years Eve where a young man, an "orphan in the storm", comes across a party being given by an amazingly rich old man who can buy anything he wants, except the youth he has already lost. There are four leads: a Narrator, the Young Man, the Young Girl (a singer at the party), and the Old Man. The rest are revelers who act as a Greek chorus as the battle between rich and poor, young and old, plays itself out.

"Die Fledermaus" - the great Strauss operetta. Get a good English translation (there are several). It also takes place at a New Years Eve party. Mistaken identities, possibly unfaithful partners, an elaborate practical joke, a maid on her night off, and a police inspector on a bender - all at a party hosted by a a handsome prince. The score is spectacular; and it's an annual New Years event at many theatres around the world. Six major roles, plus one great non-singing comic role, and the biggest party ever seen on stage. Tradition also allows for a variety show to be inserted as entertainment at the party; often utilizing contemporary specialty songs to great comic effect.

Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 8/21/12 at 1:11pm

There is a great vesion of It's a Wonderful Life available.

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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse