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Christmas Show Suggestion

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Topic: Christmas Show Suggestion

Posted By: peacfrog50
Subject: Christmas Show Suggestion
Date Posted: 9/17/12 at 11:02am

We are a small community theatre looking for a Christmas show, musical or comedy with a small cast 3-4 males 3-4 females. Any suggestions?

or any good comedies with that cast size

Thank You

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Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 9/18/12 at 8:08am

A Dickens’ Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultous Acts
By Mark Landon Smith

From the author of Faith County and Faith County II comes the funniest Christmas Carol ever. The Styckes-Upon-Thump Repertory Company embarks on their fifteenth annual tour of the Dickens classic. When the company's diva feigns illness, certain the production will be canceled, this merry troupe of over the hill and upstart actors carry on without her. Roles are shuffled and the sweet understudy suddenly finds herself on stage knowing only one line of dialogue. She has written her part in and on almost everything, including the Christmas pudding! Midway through the doomed performance, the diva rushes in to reclaim her role. Total mayhem ensues as the company scrambles to keep the show going while everything goes hilariously wrong.

(Family friendly!)

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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse

Posted By: Ogreking4
Date Posted: 11/12/12 at 3:57pm

http://www.hitplays.com/default.aspx?pg=sd&st=MOSTLY+MINNESOTA+CHRISTMAS&p=4319 - http://www.hitplays.com/default.aspx?pg=sd&st=MOSTLY+MINNESOTA+CHRISTMAS&p=4319

Posted By: Raging Thespian
Date Posted: 11/12/12 at 4:45pm

Norm Foster (Canadian playwright - frequently likened to Neil Simon) has a few very funny Christmas plays. Check out his website. They'll send you an email with free PDF version of any play if you ask. You can't print, or copy it, but at least you can read it and decide if you like it. Norm's plays are done all over North America. http://normfoster.com/synopsis.html

Posted By: jonplaywright
Date Posted: 11/13/12 at 7:32pm

Arthur M. Jolly's The Christmas Princess (minimum cast 8, right at your limit) would be a fun and family-friendly choice. It's available through YouthPLAYS here:
http://www.youthplays.com/plays/view/122/The_Christmas_Princess - http://www.youthplays.com/plays/view/122/The_Christmas_Princess

Cheers,
Jon

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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: TPtheater
Date Posted: 11/28/12 at 3:29pm

Midwest community theater - we sold out every night with the play FRUITCAKES.

Posted By: TPtheater
Date Posted: 11/28/12 at 3:35pm

Midwest - We also sold out a couple of years ago with THE BENCH.

Posted By: jayzehr
Date Posted: 11/28/12 at 4:30pm

We haven't done it but there's one called Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) that a lot of people have done well with.

It calls for three actors but I believe it's a very flexible script.

Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 11/28/12 at 10:47pm

"Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)" is a great show. It's like a holiday version of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)". Three actors give their own truncated (and highly irreverent) versions of the Grinch, Rudolph, Frosty, Scrooge, Gift of the Magi, Charlie Brown, and It's A Wonderful Life - along with the Nutcracker, the Macy's Parade, and a whole lot more. Very prop heavy, but very funny. We did it a couple of years ago and the response was so positive, we'll be doing it again next year.

Posted By: btremb
Date Posted: 12/07/12 at 12:45pm

We just did the play "Sorry Wrong Chimney". This is the 3rd time in the last 24 years we've done it. Its by Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears. Cast is 4 males and 3 Females. Audience really enjoys it. Funniest part is the striptease.

http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/2207/sorry-wrong-chimney - http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/2207/sorry-wrong-chimney