Shows With Water
Shows With Water
#1Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 12:50amHello all. I am on the board of a new theatre company. We have a wonderful opportunity to stage a show at the end of the summer at an outdoor venue that contains a swimming pool where the playing space will be. I come to you for ideas for a show that a body of water (pool, lake, ocean, etc.) serves a part, large or small, in the show. We are currently considering shows like A Year With Frog and Toad or Big River, but would love some other ideas thrown around. We are looking for something with a small to medium sized cast and are open to straight plays or musicals. Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses is out as several large theatres have produced the show recently although it would be a great option. Any ideas are welcome and thank you for any help.
#2Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 12:59am
Little Mermaid
South Pacific
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#4Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:20amI'm afraid The Little Mermaid is too ambitious mainly because of cast size and it taking place almost entirely in the water. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is an excellent suggestion. Someone had brought up the show Lips Together, Teeth Apart, I'm not entirely familiar with the show but know it takes place at a beach home on Fire Island, is it any good?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#7Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:40amMTI licenses a little known variation on a Stephen Sondheim classic called Water Follies of 1941.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#9Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:43amDon't listen to him. That's just the same old FOLLIES but with Sally peeing everywhere.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:45amWhen she says "I left the dishes in the sink" you realize the whole thing has actually been taking place her in her sink!
#11Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 1:49amAnd "Im Still Here" is a song sung by one of the dishes in the sink to highlight what a horrible housekeeper Sally is.
#12Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:07amJordan - I am literally in tears from laughing. THANK YOU.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
Marcellus2
Chorus Member Joined: 2/16/12
#14Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:56amMetamorphoses.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#15Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 5:21am
There was a brilliant production of TWELFTH NIGHT that incorporated water back in the 1990s at Lincoln Centre. And just a few years ago, someone did a production of GODOT that used Hurricane Katruina as a concept and put the two clowns on top of a house that was up to its eaves in water. The other characters arrived in small boats; the whole thing was amazing to watch.
Dont feel restrained by "what show has water in it?", but rather, as these examples did, think what show could be amplified by the concept.
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Mr Roxy
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#17Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 8:10am
Marat/Sade
Ondine
Seascape
Metamorphoses
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
An Enemy of the People
Urinetown
Anyone Can Whistle
The Time of the Cuckoo
Do I Hear A Waltz
On Golden Pond
Last Summer at Bluefish Cove
The Coast of Utopia
Othello
Carousel
Porgy and Bess
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#18Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 8:24amYou could do The Wind in the Willows musical with an actual boat. I don't know why the stage musical decides a boat is the most important vehicle in that story, but it's used all the time to get Mole and Frog to their next destination.
#20Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 9:19amHave you thought of maybe doing a straight play version of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid? The original is very different from Disney's and there are some great opportunities for creative staging ideas.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#22Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 9:32am
Titanic
Night of the Iguana
"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"
#23Shows With Water
Posted: 3/29/13 at 10:57am
AIDA has a "swimming pool" scene for Amneris and her servants before the fashion show.
You could do ROCKY HORROR and use the pool scene from the film, I guess...
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
gymdudeva
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/07
