Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: Looking for an Interesting Christmas Show

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   G'day Nig!
I think i have swayed my mob on doing your 'Big Idea', but I will have to wait untill I can push it thru the sausage machine at our next meeting? which has been penciled in for the 9th of April. But since we have been using other venues, wating for ours to be refurbished, they have fallen into a trough some what!
Also they seem to get lost if the group loose it's figure head [chairman]. The last one got a position in a US university & evaporated.
they are rather like a mob of wooly jumpers at time.
So i have been running about like a 'blue heeler' & yapping at thier heels, to work as a group & not wait for one of thier number to say follow me.
They are a great mob - but still like Browns cows!
Our new theatre is finished & we have a lot to remodifing it suit a performance cpace, so a lot to do for this old fart!
I will keep yours & Stuarts suggestions in mind as an alternative to doing a panto. Then ease them in to 'He's behind you?' latter - if I live that long?
Hopefully you & Stuart will be hearing from me soon.

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JoeMc Celebrity Joined: 3/13/06 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 832	Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:03am
	G'day Nig! I think i have swayed my mob on doing your 'Big Idea', but I will have to wait untill I can push it thru the sausage machine at our next meeting? which has been penciled in for the 9th of April. But since we have been using other venues, wating for ours to be refurbished, they have fallen into a trough some what! Also they seem to get lost if the group loose it's figure head [chairman]. The last one got a position in a US university & evaporated. they are rather like a mob of wooly jumpers at time. So i have been running about like a 'blue heeler' & yapping at thier heels, to work as a group & not wait for one of thier number to say follow me. They are a great mob - but still like Browns cows! Our new theatre is finished & we have a lot to remodifing it suit a performance cpace, so a lot to do for this old fart! I will keep yours & Stuarts suggestions in mind as an alternative to doing a panto. Then ease them in to 'He's behind you?' latter - if I live that long? Hopefully you & Stuart will be hearing from me soon.
	[western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!}
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Nigel Holloway Walk-On Joined: 3/27/08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:19am
	Thanks again, Joe - I'll keep my fingers crossed! But back to Panto... One of the other Off-The-Wall Plays has the group turning up to perform the Mikado, only to find an audience from the local prison expecting a Pantomime...so, rather than argue about it (quick-thinking bunch as they are), they rewrite the Mikado as a Pantomime (complete with Daisy the Cow - both halves of her). The principle boy (that's always a beautiful girl for those of you not immersed in the tradition) does a sing-a-long version of Ko-Ko's Little List song - but in her case, listing all the sexual perversions she's tried. The play's called 'Murdering the Mikado' and you can find details on: www.off-the-wall-plays.co.uk cheers
	Best wishes, Nigel www.off-the-wall-plays.co.uk
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RBergman Walk-On Joined: 4/05/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 4/05/08 at 11:20am
	Hi! just saw your posting. I have THE Christmas play for you: "Christmas Belles" by Jones Hope and Wooten. One of the theatres I work with had done all the old standards 'til they were threadbare, then we found this hilarous! show. Get it from Dramatists Play Service or Amazon, I think. It's fabulous and it's so great to have a new Christmas show - AT LAST! Break a leg!
	Rach
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tristanrobin Celebrity Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704	Posted: 4/08/08 at 8:57am
	One of my all-time favorite Christmas shows is "The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut, & the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree" by William Gibson (of "The Miracle Worker," "Two for the Seesaw," "Dinny and the Witches," etc.) It's charming - adults like it - and yet it's totally appropriate and enjoyable for kids. Give it a read! Dramatists handles the scripts/rights.
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JOHNO60 Walk-On Joined: 4/12/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 4/12/08 at 1:40pm
	Have you picked your Christmas play yet? Where are you located? I produced a lovely Christmas show in December 07 called FIVE CANDLES. Five children plus one woman and one man--and an ensemble of any age. Very sweet--lovely music. John O'Hara
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notmyshoes Player Joined: 4/18/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 4/18/08 at 5:01pm
	I worked at the Bailiwick Arts Center in Chicago and had the opportunity to see their production of "The Christmas Schooner." It was very well received, and it's something that people haven't seen a thousand times (as opposed to A Christmas Carol, which I would rather kill myself than sit through again).
	The Monologue Database - by These Aren't My Shoes Productions
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teridtiger Star Joined: 10/24/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 69	Posted: 6/23/08 at 7:48pm
	"Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then Some)" In the same vein as "The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (abridged)" - three men creating a Reader's Digest of holiday/Christmas stories. http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1241
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midgetking111 Player Joined: 1/17/09 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13	Posted: 1/18/09 at 3:32pm
	I'd strongly recommend A Christmas Story.
	Mystery of the Suffocated 7th Grader-Perry Paulson Willy Wonka Junior-Grandpa George Air Uganda-Swami Ramblenonada James and the Giant Peach-James Trotter Throughly Modern Millie-Bun Foo
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