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Posted By: fourninety
Subject: something like....
Date Posted: 5/02/04 at 10:19pm

Hi there! We produced the play "You Can't Take it With You" last fall in a dinner theater setting and are looking for a similar show for this coming fall. Similar in the following ways:

1) odd assortment of nutty characters

2) lots of laughs

3) reasonably clean and inoffensive

Any suggestions?

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Posted By: countbio
Date Posted: 5/03/04 at 10:25am

How about Arsenic and Old Lace? Or, if you are willing to take a bit more risk..Auntie Mame (some mild adult language and situations...but very funny and fun)

Good Luck

Posted By: Linda
Date Posted: 5/03/04 at 3:14pm

How about an Agatha Christie mystery? The Mousetrap? Ten Little Indians? Both have fairly large casts and quirky characters. If you want to do domething more up to date with quirky characters, there are two plays by Larry Shue that will bring down the house: The Nerd & the Foreigner. One draw back with The Nerd is that it is really prop heavy.

Linda

Posted By: Doug
Date Posted: 5/04/04 at 11:11am

What about Harvey?

Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 5/05/04 at 12:31am

Good suggestion doug - Great show to do with a 6? Pooka & all!

Chookas

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Posted By: fourninety
Date Posted: 5/07/04 at 3:06pm

Thanks for the feedback. Keep 'em coming if you think of others. Much appreciated!

Tim

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 5/10/04 at 1:29am

Our audiences loved "The Nerd" -- small cast with real wacko characters, lots of physical humor and food props.

Posted By: Chris Polo
Date Posted: 5/11/04 at 4:32pm

Be careful about Harvey -- amateur rights to it have been tied up for the last two years. I know several groups in addition to ours who weren't able to get rights because it's been optioned.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 5/13/04 at 1:36pm

Radio TBS by Mark Landon Smith is a good one. It
has the quirky characters. I've seen it done with men
playing the radio announcers Vesta and Dixie. I've
not read An Evening of Culture by the same author
but i've heard it's a good one too.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 6/10/04 at 4:19pm

"The Tavern" by George M. Cohan is a non-musical, suspense farce-melodrama that is one-set, many characters, with an outstanding lead role (written by Cohan for himself to play). It's a chestnut, but if done right, it's a crowd-pleaser.

Another Kaufman & Hart play is "The Man Who Came to Dinner." One-set, dozens of characters.

A recent favorite of mine is "I Hate Hamlet" by Paul Rudnick. One set, Six characters, (3 men, 3 women) all great roles. Some of the language can be toned down.