Plays featuring Women
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Topic: Plays featuring Women
Posted By: Hard Road
Subject: Plays featuring Women
Date Posted: 8/22/07 at 12:54pm
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We had a very successful run of "Steel Magnolias" and I would like to reunite our cast of 6 women in another show. Any suggestions?
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Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 8/22/07 at 12:57pm
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You may want to look at the play Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain. ------------- Patrick L. Davis Fort Findlay Playhouse |
Posted By: Linda S
Date Posted: 8/22/07 at 1:57pm
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Also "Five Women Wearing The Same Dress" Dramatist holds the rights. I haven't done it, but it is on my short list.
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=862 - http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=862
Linda
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Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 8/22/07 at 7:43pm
| Ladies of the Alamo, Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, Top Girls ... dere's a million of 'em LOL |
Posted By: B-M-D
Date Posted: 8/22/07 at 9:46pm
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The Smell of the Kill - 3W 3M as off stage voices. Find it at http://www.dramaticpublishing.com - www.dramaticpublishing.com ------------- BD 
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard." |
Posted By: eveharrington
Date Posted: 8/23/07 at 1:35am
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"Going To See The Elephant" It only has four women and one offstage male voice, but it's four extremely strong female roles. ------------- "If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights." |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 8/23/07 at 1:48am
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John Godber & Jane Thorton 'Shakers' &
'Shakers Re-Stirred'.
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/godber-john.html#13740 - http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/godber-john.html#13740
------------- 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: DWolfman
Date Posted: 8/23/07 at 1:32pm
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"And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little"
by Paul Zindel
5 females, 2 males. Great parts in a wonderful "dramady"
Link:
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1504 - http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1504 ------------- Even a man who is pure of heart... |
Posted By: slicksister
Date Posted: 8/24/07 at 3:14am
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Belles ------------- The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing |
Posted By: bernster74
Date Posted: 8/24/07 at 11:46am
| If you've got the stage and design capabilities, the best female play ever is THE WOMEN. You can cast up to 35 women. No men. Wonderful script. |
Posted By: aquitainealair
Date Posted: 9/13/07 at 12:43am
| Sally and Marsha is a fun, throw back dramedy. |
Posted By: Thespian_4_ever
Date Posted: 9/18/07 at 8:19am
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My Community Theatre is doing The Women of Lockerbie this Spring... ------------- |
Posted By: suzecue1
Date Posted: 9/19/07 at 1:36pm
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The Odd Couple - the female version - lots of fun and name recognition!
6 women and 2 guys. ------------- Sue ***** So many hats.....so few heads! |
Posted By: bbpchick
Date Posted: 9/22/07 at 1:55am
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If you don't mind a musical, there is "Mothering Heights"
------------- Kendra http://www.murphysblackbartplayer.com - www.murphysblackbartplayers.com You are NEVER too old to dress up! |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/22/07 at 2:16am
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You coul try this for a comedy;-
'wOMBERANG"
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsT/townsend-sue.html#34870 - http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsT/townsend-sue.html#34870 ------------- 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: DnoMan
Date Posted: 9/29/07 at 6:48pm
| Waiting for the Parade is a very good play |
Posted By: SDstoryteller
Date Posted: 12/11/07 at 10:19pm
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I'd like to second the nomination for "Five Women Wearing The Same Dress." An absolutely brilliant script by the genius Alan Ball, who went on to gift us with American Beauty and Six Feet Under.
I'm just sayin'. ------------- Watching someone struggle to maintain control is far more fascinating than watching them lose it. |
Posted By: donzolidis
Date Posted: 12/11/07 at 10:52pm
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Rosemary and Ginger by Edward Allen Baker. 2 great parts! ------------- www.donzolidis.com |
Posted By: tdsands
Date Posted: 12/15/07 at 10:44am
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we just finished a production of "Jenny's House of Joy" by Norm Foster
5 Women. Single set. Comedy based on a brothel in the 1800s. ------------- tdsands @ NRT |
Posted By: SherrieAnne
Date Posted: 12/15/07 at 2:50pm
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NUNSENSE!!! Or NUNSENSE 2 - THE SECOND COMING ------------- There's a little bit of diva in all of us. Some just have a larger helping than others. |
Posted By: SherrieAnne
Date Posted: 12/18/07 at 9:32pm
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I'd almost forgotten THE SISTERS ROSENZWEIG by Wendy Wasserstein (I think) - only four female roles, one very young, but all strong roles. A couple of male roles, not as strong. ------------- There's a little bit of diva in all of us. Some just have a larger helping than others. |
Posted By: tignor
Date Posted: 12/27/07 at 6:54am
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Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Available through Samuel French. I did this years ago, it's very "Steel Magnolias-ish" and would fit with what you are looking for. PLus, being made into a movie people are familiar with it (it was Cher's first acting job, also stared Swoozie Kurtz, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates). |
Posted By: stgdirector4
Date Posted: 12/29/07 at 4:16pm
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This is my first time using this message board--I hope that I'm doing this right.
You've come up with many good selections, but here's an unusual choice: THE CLEAN HOUSE by Sarah Ruhl. 4 women; 1 man. It's about love, romance, telling the perfect joke, speaking Portuguese, and housework. |
Posted By: mary051756
Date Posted: 2/01/08 at 7:21am
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Depending on your audience, Nunsense could work - very diverse characters, very funny premise, etc. ------------- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” EMERSON |
Posted By: stockhamlj
Date Posted: 2/19/08 at 11:20am
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TITLE: Divorce Sale
GENRE: Contemporary Comedy. LOGLINE: Neighbors hold a séance to contact the deceased husband of one’s ditsy mother-in-law. CAST OF CHARACTERS: 10 (6f,4m) SCENIC REQUIREMENT: Double-car garage. TIME: Spring, early 1990s. APPROXIMATE RUNNING TIME: 80 minutes. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: <www:singlelane.com/proplay/divorcesale.html>. ROYALTIES: Contact playwright for performance rights at <lindastockham@yahoo.com>. ------------- Linda Stockham |
Posted By: soozee
Date Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:51pm
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Loved Odd Couple Female Version. Of all the shows I've done, this one had the best comradarie and lots of fun. Even the Sunday matinee was a hoot and we all know what duds those usually are. ------------- Hey, look....a chicken. |
Posted By: SmilersComedy
Date Posted: 3/05/08 at 2:28am
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I have a show that has the flavor of Steele Magnolias, it's an adult comedy called "Southern Exposure" was a huge hit for us in 2003, played for six weeks to sold out houses.
Contact me for more details. Cheers, Thomas Amo |
Posted By: stockhamlj
Date Posted: 3/05/08 at 12:01pm
Besides THE WOMEN, there is CRY HAVOC. I would suspect copies are available through Samuel French. You might want to go to Currency Press. There are a couple of terrific Australian plays like SORRENTO HOTEL that might fit your needs. In addition, you might check out DIVORCE SALE online at: singlelane.com/proplay/divorcesale.html
 ------------- Linda Stockham |
Posted By: MellaBlue
Date Posted: 3/06/08 at 3:15pm
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I've directed Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. It was a tremendous amount of fun! Another one to consider (depending on the ages of your women) is The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel. I've also directed that -- very funny and touching. I've always been a fan of Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein, too. |