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Topic: valentine?s day
Posted By: denise
Subject: valentine?s day
Date Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:02pm
| I'm looking for a romantic/romantic comedy script for less than 8 people. It will be performed off-site, so it can't have a complicated set. It's to be performed around valentine's day and should run less than 90 minutes. I'd be happy with a classic or a modern piece, non-musical. Help! |
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Posted By: denise
Date Posted: 6/17/05 at 11:39pm
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Ouch. This is brutal. I'm getting desperate here. I know V-day seems like a long time away, but I need to plan ahead, get a script approved, find crew and beready to host auditions by the first of the year. Proposing and getting approved will take two months right off the bat. Help me out here! |
Posted By: Kathy S
Date Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:35am
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Barefoot in the Park? Or what about a grouping of one act plays that center on a romantic theme? |
Posted By: casey05
Date Posted: 6/18/05 at 3:17am
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How about Butterflies are Free, by Leonard Gershe. It only needs four
actors, is romantic (about a girl and a blind man falling in love ...
it was made into a movie with Goldie Hawn) and only needs a simple
setting - an apartment in the sixties. |
Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 6/18/05 at 7:44am
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how modern of a romantic comedy are you looking for?
"Beyond Therapy" by Christopher Durang "Love! Valor! Compassion!" by Terrence McNally "Prelude to a Kiss" by Craig Lucas are all romantic comedies that we've had success with - however, they're all contemporary and, heh heh, not for the faint-hearted 
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Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 6/22/05 at 11:10am
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Two well-known musicals by Harvey Schmidt and
Tom Jones borrowed their romantic storylines from original stage plays. "The FourPoster" by Jan De Hartog is the play from which the musical "I Do! I Do" came. Likewise, "The Romantics" by Edmond (Edward?) Rostand is a classical play from which the musical "The Fantasticks!" came. It should be in public domain. "84 Charing Cross Road" from the book by Helene Hanff and written for the stage by James Roose-Evans spawned the musical "She Loves Me" and served as the inspiration for the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan movie "You've Got Mail." "Love Letters" by A.R. Gurney is very charming and extremely simple to produce. Best of luck! ------------- "None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone |
Posted By: Shatcher
Date Posted: 6/23/05 at 10:20am
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I agree about Love Letters. Pretty much no set is needed.
A theatre here in town does a show each year for V-day. they get local playwrites to submit scripts and then pick the best ones and put them together for the show. Each piece is between 10 and 20 minutes long. the show sells out every year as soon as tix go on sale. |
Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 6/23/05 at 9:43pm
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for the record - "She Loves Me" was written quite some time
before "84 Charing Cross Road" ... I'm kinda sure that it's based on "The Shop Around the Corner" and the subsequent musical version with Judy Garland "In the Good Old Summertime." Some of my absolute fondest memories is directing "She Loves Me" - it's a monster of a score (SERIOUS singers and musicians are required) - and the set can be cumbersome until you work it out (we ended up with a revolve) - but, my! it's just a jewel box of a play. |
Posted By: ronophonic
Date Posted: 6/24/05 at 12:28am
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ROMANTIC COMEDY 6 RMS RIV VU SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR TWO FOR THE SEESAW
------------- ronophonic |
Posted By: dougb
Date Posted: 6/24/05 at 11:17am
| Anyone know what ever happened to the script for "The Shop Around The Corner"? It was written by Miklos Laszlo and made into a movie in 1940 starring Maureen Sullivan and James Stewart. I have been looking for the script for years. |
Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 6/24/05 at 1:53pm
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I don't think it was a play, was it? It was a novel by Laszlo - and
then the filmed version was re-made into a musical for Judy Garland ("In the Good Old Summertime") and it was remade into a different musical a few years ago ("She Loves Me") |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 6/25/05 at 12:50am
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I like the idea, which Kathy S suggests, of getting a couple of 1 Acts & dovetailing them together. Possibly under a generic title on the marquee - using the same cast! On the other hand why do something romantic? Do a 180 & have something sinister &/or a comedy, instead of the mushy hearts & flowers! Have a different St V?s production. Like something that might get the blokes to attend as well! ------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland 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} |
Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 6/25/05 at 1:23am
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I love Gaafa's idea. You could even re-enact the Al
Capone/Bugs Moran St. Valentine's Day Massacre. THAT oughta get rid of any sentimental mish-mosh. A version of "Dracula" might be a treat. "Instead of giving your heart flowers and candy, why not garlic and a thick stake?" PS to all who wrote in: You're right, I was confused about the origins of "She Loves Me." As the man who purchased orthopedic shoes said, "I stand corrected." Both "84 Charing Cross Road" and "The Shop Around the Corner" involve romance, bookshops and letters to some extent. "Shop" became a movie with Jimmy Stewart in 1940, while "84" became a movie with Anthony Hopkins in 1986-something. But hey! While we're on the subject, how about a little-produced chestnut that also became a movie with Jimmy Stewart? "Bell Book and Candle" has romance, bookshops plus the added macabre twist of witchcraft and sorcery. Not your typical Valentine's Day fare. The play was written by John Van Druten who also wrote the play "I Am a Camera" which served as the basis for the musical "Caberet." I love the Green Room! You learn something new every day! ------------- "None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 7/01/05 at 5:48pm
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Shop Around The Corner is a play, but it's called Parfumerie and it is in Hungarian. How do you feel about: Any Wednesday (cast of four) Barefoot In The Park, or just about any of the Neil Simon "Suite"s Seems to me that romance works better in a musical. I'm having a hard time thinking of straight plays that fit the bill. ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 7/01/05 at 6:49pm
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I agree - Bell, Book and Candle is a delightful play.
Unfortunately, it was made into a very un-delightful film - and I think the boring movie keeps audiences away. Gillian in the play is a vibrant, exciting, feisty, plucky fun character - but in the movie - that gorgeous Kim Novak is simply one looooooong yawn. I saw one production of this play (many years ago now) in which the magical spells were accompanied by lighting and sound effects - and the whole thing was hysterically funny. It's also much sexier than the film was allowed to be. |
Posted By: NickH.
Date Posted: 7/02/05 at 3:15pm
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By the way, the play on which the Fantastics was based is called The
Romancers, by Edmond Rostand, the author of Cyrano de Bergerac. It's
available from Samuel French, and it's royalty free.
------------- If all the world is a stage, what am I doing in the wings? |
Posted By: denise
Date Posted: 7/20/05 at 3:22am
| Wow, I've been very remiss about checking for answers. I got discouraged there for awhile, but you guys have been awesome! Thanks ever so much for all the great suggestions. I guess I'd better get reading. Thanks again! |