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I have helped and co-directed plays and musicals for the last couple years and am now the head director for our school's fall play and spring musical. I was wondering if anyone can recommend a funny play that would be appropriate for a highschool cast. We are a private/Catholic school also, so that somewhat limits what we can do, due to the content of so many high profile shows.
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We went through a local sign printing company just as you were thinking for the larger pictures. Our school's tech ed department was able handle the smaller pictures (anything less than 22 inches). Our stage manager created the dacshund in her art class.
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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Harbison on -
You should contact Playscripts and apprise them of this problem. Maybe they can provide something from the original Broadway production.
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Permalink Reply by The Commodore Players on -
Great one act comedy, geared especially for festivals, Tim Kochenderfer's "The Search for Cindy". Hilarious and fun for the character actors in your group.
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Permalink Reply by christa whittaker on -
I agree with The Foreigner. The Klan can get tricky, so I cast all non-white actors ( they wore gloves) for the final scene. It was the funniest show we ever did. The Brothers Grimm Spectaculaton is available from playscripts.com and is in a full length and one act version-- both hilarious and totally safe. If you like mystery spoofs, try The Butler Did it. If you have a lot of women, Radio T.B.S. is a riot ( like a Greater Tuna for women). I teach in a very conservative military community in NW Florida and I have to be very sensitive to my audience and administration, but if you look at a lot of the classics from the 40;s and 50's ( You Can't Take it With You, Arsenic and Old Lace ) you really can't go wrong. Good Luck!
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Permalink Reply by Patricia A. Cheney on -
Comedy's appropriate for high school ---- there are tons ...
Madwomen of Challiot.
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
Compleat Works of Shakespeare Abridged by the Reduced Shakespeare Company
Noise's Off
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirendello
Love of Three Oranges, comedia delle arte
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
The Nerd by Larry Shue
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Neil Simon .... has quite a few which could be appropriate
You Can't Take It With You
See How They Run
The Matchmaker
Imaginery Invalid
Tartuffe
Importance of Being Ernest
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Murder Room
Lend Me A Tenor
Bang Bang Beirut
Story Theatre by Paul Sills
Alice in Wonderland
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
http://www.edta.org/professional_resources/scripts.aspx
Good Luck!
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Permalink Reply by Mark Modzelewski on -
Great list! I'm going to keep a copy of that too. I concur heartily with Arsenic & Old Lace, and Cash On Delivery and I would add The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni. I'm paricularly fond of the script that the Milwaukee Rep revised.
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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Harbison on
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It's THE IMAGINARY INVALID. It's THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT. It's Pirandello. It's Commedia dell' Arte.
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Permalink Reply by David Helmstetter on -
I'm looking at producing THE BIRDS - A MODERN ADAPTATION this fall by Don Zolidis available through Playscripts, Inc. It has cheesy humor, contemporary references with a cast of 16 - 26 actors possible. The set can be as involved as one would like, and costuming could verge on Julie Taymor puppetry... I'm psyched about it. David Helmstetter - North High School, Phoenix, AZ
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"Urinetown". A little on the edgy side but really funny and a clever well-written show.
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Hi Travis,
I saw a local private/Catholic school do a presentation of Honk! It's a musical adaptation of the Ugly Duckling story, and could be very funny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honk!
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Boyle on -
The Mouse That Roared
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Bauer on -
My high school was also limited to G and PG shows-we did "Once Upon a Mattress", "Cinderella: 70's Style" (we took the original script and planted it in the 70s complete with all 70's music-that was fun!), "Big the Musical", and "Honk! the musical" (the ugly duckling story, totally cute and more fun than I expected) we were short on guys for "big" and "honk" so we switched a few roles to female and they still worked. before I got there, they did "bye bye birdie", "sound of music", "annie get your gun", and "how to succeed in business..."
hope this gets the brain rolling!
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