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Nyria
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Topic: small cast musicals
Posted: 9/23/05 at 4:21pm

For my next show I would like to do something with a smaller cast (around 5 - 10 people) any suggestions?

Thanks -

NYRIA

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Posted: 9/23/05 at 5:03pm

oh...there are soo many.

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Company
A Little Night Music
Assassins
The Fantasticks
how about those for starters?

Or you could do a musical revue...good luck with finding your show.

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Posted: 9/23/05 at 7:08pm

I have directed 1940's Radio Hour twice. It is the only show that I would be happy to do again and again. It has a cast of 13.

I also really enjoyed the musical review "Grand Night for Singing" with a cast of 5. There are some really interesting and new arrangements of Rodgers and Hammerstein standards.

I agree with Juliet. There are so many.

Linda

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Posted: 9/24/05 at 8:55am

I think "Ruthless" is terrific - only 8 characters...if you aren't
familiar with it, it's a musical version and parody of "The Bad
Seed," "Gypsy," and "All About Eve." It's hysterical - good, good
songs - and the most horrific leading lady ever LOL. When I
saw it, the role of the young-murderess-Shirley-Temple-
wannabe was played by (a very youthful) adult, and it didn't
matter one iota that it wasn't really a child.

also, believe it or not, the professional production of "Guys and
Dolls" at Longwarf Theatre last season only had 13 actors!- and
it was really dynamite.

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Posted: 9/24/05 at 7:32pm

Godspell, Little Shop Of Horrors, Snoopy!!!, Schoolhouse Rock LIVE!

The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

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Posted: 9/25/05 at 11:14am

Forever Plaid
The Taffeta's
She Loves Me
Always, Patsy Cline
Pump Boys and Dinettes

If you are REAL brave try Radio Gals 6 women and 1 man - the women need to play several instruments at a high level - they are the accompaniment.

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tristanrobin
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Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:45pm

Originally posted by dougb

If you are REAL brave try Radio Gals 6
women and 1 man - the women need
to play several instruments at a high level - they are the
accompaniment.

In our production of "Pump Boys," the boys were the band and
the girls were the percussion. I thought it was always done that
way - do productions sometimes use a pit band? Do the
musical numbers then get heavily choregraphed?

Another virtuoso musicianship show is "Oil City Symphony" -
written by the Pump Boys folks. The cast, again, is the
accompaniment.

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Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:02pm

A relatively new musical called "Song of Singapore"
has a cast of four and very entertaining music. (I've
never seen the show, but a friend loaned me a
recording.)

In regards to tristanrobin's suggestion: I saw a
production of "The Bad Seed" where the murderous
8-year-old girl was played by an adult male in drag.

Needless to say it was campy fun. Hilarious!

"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone

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Posted: 9/26/05 at 2:42am

Try ?By Jeeves? music not bad & catchy. Done by that Andy bloke!
It is a good farce & if you have done any panto?s even better!

Joe
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turn right @ Perth.
Hear the light & see the sound.
Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"}
May you always play
to a full house}

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Posted: 9/26/05 at 3:03am

A Broadway Christmas Carol has only 4 members in the cast, Pippin, Godspell, School House Rock! Live!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Aspects of Love,....

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