Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: suggestions for shows for upcoming season

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   I am a high school theatre and community theatre director.  I have a large advanced high school company ... about 15 men and 10 women.  My company is mixed ethnically . I am searching for production suggestions for the upcoming season ... shows that will make the audience laugh, cry ... move them!  I, of course, want shows that the  actors can get into performing.  I am not interested in musicals.  Can anyone suggest sites for me to check or possibly provide titles of shows that you have seen that work?   Thanks for the help!

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Guests Guest	Topic: suggestions for shows for upcoming season Posted: 7/13/00 at 2:12pm
	I am a high school theatre and community theatre director. I have a large advanced high school company ... about 15 men and 10 women. My company is mixed ethnically . I am searching for production suggestions for the upcoming season ... shows that will make the audience laugh, cry ... move them! I, of course, want shows that the actors can get into performing. I am not interested in musicals. Can anyone suggest sites for me to check or possibly provide titles of shows that you have seen that work? Thanks for the help!

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Guests Guest	Posted: 7/19/00 at 4:11pm
	Here are some ideas - some I have done or seen and some I have only read but are on my "A" list. Ordinary People - was a movie - a couple of 'to die for' roles for high school students. To Gillian on her 37th Birthday - all roles are great - humor, tears, happy ending West Side Story - if you can dance and sing Cheaper by the Dozen Tender Lies - nice characters you will care about All I Really need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - flexible cast - can do as a musical or just with music To Kill a Mockingbird David & Lisa - tear your heart out - 11M, 11W There is always Shakespear - Mid Summer Nights Dream Consider doing ten minute scenes from plays your students pick out and put them together as a night of scenes - works well - good broad spectrum of theater There are several sites with short plays - 10 minute to one act. Here are two: www.heniford/1234/index.htm www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/8556/index2.html Also try the Hansen Drama Shop at www.dramashop.com/drama.html This site has good descriptions of the plays. Good luck!!
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Guests Guest	Posted: 7/27/00 at 12:27am
	Try the show "Spirit" by Peg Kahret. (Pioneer Drama Service) Works best in the round. Several great character roles (main characters are in their 70's) I have directed this using Middle School students in all roles and for a community group where the main actors were in their late 60's. Both worked equally well. NOTE: This is a show that plays much better than it reads.
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