Musicals with SMALL Casts
Musicals with SMALL Casts
samerz8162
Swing Joined: 6/27/14
#1Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:05pm
I am in the process of working with a small venue that could potentially host SMALL scale musicals (ideally with casts of 6 or fewer people, but could potentially be stretched). The musicals that would work best would be sung-through shows; shows with dialogue would have the option of being presented in concert form (with only critical dialogue being used).
Ideas I've already come up with include:
- Songs for a New World
- Closer than Ever
- Edges
- [title of show]
- The Last 5 Years
I am looking for more ideas to expand on the above, as I am hoping to create a long partnership with the venue and continue doing productions of this sort.
Thanks in advance for any help!
#2Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:21pmYou're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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#2Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:26pmMusical of Musicals: The Musical. 4 person cast, piano only, and everything is staged with a chair, the piano, and even the sheet music copies ripped out of the piano player's book.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#3Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:28pmJacque Brel!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#4Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:29pm
^ Didn't he die?
CHURCH DOOR TOUCAN GAY MARKETING PUPPIES MUSICAL THEATER STAPLES PERIOD OIL BITCHY SNARK HOLES
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#5Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:34pmNah, he's alive and well and living in Paris!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#6Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:38pm
Next To Normal
First Date
Updated On: 6/27/14 at 12:38 PM
#7Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:39pmI initially read this as seeking musicals that somehow involved small cats, which seemed oddly specific/random.
#8Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:40pm
"Nah, he's alive and well and living in Paris!"
CHURCH DOOR TOUCAN GAY MARKETING PUPPIES MUSICAL THEATER STAPLES PERIOD OIL BITCHY SNARK HOLES
Updated On: 6/27/14 at 12:40 PM
#9Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 12:42pm
The Last Session (requires a lead actor who can play piano, though)
Marry Me a Little
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#10Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 1:27pm
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Guttenberg: The Musical
The Big Bang (technically a play with music, but it's about two guys who are putting on a presentation of their musical for backers. It's awesome)
#11Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 1:33pmIf you can stretch the cast to 10, Avenue Q would work.
#12Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 1:45pm
You can do Avenue Q with seven, assuming your cast is made up of seven strong singers, since there won't be much harmonic doubling. I just played in the pit for a production that used this breakdown.
Princeton/Rod
Kate/Lucy/Singing Box
Nicky/Trekkie/Ricky/Bad Idea Bear Puppeteer 1/Singing Box/"Doubling" Puppeteer in group scenes
Brian
Christmas Eve
Gary Coleman
Mrs. Thistletwat/New Kid On The Block/Bad Idea Bear Voices/Bad Idea Bear Puppeteer 2/Singing Box/Trekkie "Body" operator/"Doubling" Puppeteer in group scenes
The few lines as "offstage voices" that are traditionally spoken by the Ensemble Puppeteers were done by the conductor from the pit. The show worked very well small, actually.
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#13Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 1:57pm
Tick...Tick...Boom!
Assassins
Bonnie and Clyde (if you must)
The Fantasticks
John & Jen
SHOUT!
A Year With Frog and Toad
Anything regarding shows stated by this account is an attempt to convey opinion and not fact.
Starship
Broadway Star Joined: 7/29/12
#14Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 1:59pmCan't Seussical be done with a small cast of 9-11?
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#17Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 2:40pm
I swear I thought the title of this thread said "Musicals with SMALL Cats"
#19Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 3:11pm
TRIUMPH OF LOVE (Cast of 7)
AMOUR (Cast of 9)
eperkins
Broadway Star Joined: 5/21/07
#20Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/27/14 at 3:19pmAin't Misbehavin' is the perfect small cast musical.
LittleEdieFan
Understudy Joined: 12/21/13
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#22Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/28/14 at 12:46am
Little Shop Of Horrors
I Do I Do
Godspell
The Fantasticks
Is There Life After High School
Nunsense
Pump Boys & Dinettes
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#23Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/28/14 at 12:55am
Next to Normal
Light in the Piazza (9 total Characters)
Grey Gardens (9 total characters)
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Fantastiks
Floyd Collins
cooltu
Understudy Joined: 8/18/08
#24Musicals with SMALL Casts
Posted: 6/28/14 at 12:59amEveryday rapture lady day a night with Janis Joplin
