Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Musicals For All Girls High Schools
mgmacts
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#1Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 2:41am
What would be some musicals that have a female lead, and quite a number of other female roles? We do have some gentlemen who come from other schools do our shows to fill male roles but we obviously do not want to select a show with a male lead, when the show is first and foremost for our girls.
The music teacher has given us hints as to a show the directors are looking at: It has a TRIO with a female being the lead, No princesses, and may be currently on Broadway or recently done.
Any many suggestions are kindly appreciated!
LMcC95
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jkl011
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Lovinbroadway2
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#3Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 6:07am
Quite a few male roles in it, but (based on the whole trio thing) I'd say Dreamgirls.
freewilma
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#4Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 9:24am
I saw a production of Throughly Modern Millie at an all girls school a few years ago that worked pretty well.
#5Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 9:32am
VANITIES?
Also, consider
MAME
CABARET
WONDERFUL TOWN
DEAR WORLD
RAISIN
THE WIZ
Updated On: 4/19/15 at 09:32 AM
#6Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 9:49am
SEUSSICAL
YAGM CHARLIE BROWN OR SNOOPY
mgmacts
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#7Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 10:18am
Thank you all!
Keep 'em them coming, if anyone ha anymore ideas!!
Would Phantom of the Opera work possibly?
#8Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 10:56am
No, nor can you Phantom as is currently on Broadway, and therefore, the rights aren't available for schools. Same for Wicked.
Not sure why no one has brought "9 to 5" yet. Literally a trio of women in the leads.
#9Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 11:07amThe Phantom of the Opera is actually available for high schools to license from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization but since it features a male lead and no trio I doubt that's it. Unless the instructors are just very bad clue givers.
#10Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 11:24am
Heathers anyone??
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#11Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 11:31am
Baby it's You!
Other suggestions: Moby Dick which I think takes place at an all girls school.
Nunsense I, II, III, IV, V, Vi or whatever iteration it is up to.
#12Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 2:03pm
I went to an all-girls school in NJ and we put on a musical every spring. It was always relatively kid-friendly because three of our performances were during the day and attended by grade schools as a field trip.
The general rule was that unless a kiss was required, male roles were played by girls. If we needed boys we got them from other schools) Sometimes they just cut out a kiss if it wasn't too integral to the scene.
From what I recall, while I was there we did: The King and I (2 boys), Fiddler on the Roof (we had a girl play Tevye!), Hello Dolly, Peter Pan, Oliver (maybe 1 boy), Sound of Music (2 boys). I know in recent years they have expanded and done shows like the Music Man, Charlie Brown, Cinderella.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
#14Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 2:55pm
The general rule was that unless a kiss was required, male roles were played by girls. If we needed boys we got them from other schools) Sometimes they just cut out a kiss if it wasn't too integral to the scene.
This is my worst nightmare
#15Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 3:28pm
Looking back, I actually don't think I can recall any kisses being cut, I think they stuck to the script and got boys as needed. The only one I wasn't sure about was Fiddler on the Roof - were any of the daughters scripted to kiss their various love interests?
But as for girls playing male roles, it's kind of unavoidable at an all-girls school - where they purposely did not do plays like Annie that would be stereotypical for the setting.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
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#16Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 3:39pm
How about THE CLUB, written by Eve Merriam, with an all-female cast? It ran for 19 months off-Broadway, masterfully directed by Tommy Tune. Here, from http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/eve-merriam/:
"In 1976 her extraordinary musical, The Club, was staged at the Circle in the Square by Tommy Tune. The all-female cast portrayed the exclusively male members of an Edwardian gentlemen’s club, smoking cigars, telling sexist jokes and racy stories, and singing genuine popular songs of the period, all painstakingly unearthed by Merriam from the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, and all with lyrics embarrassing enough to make one’s flesh crawl. Merriam, Tommy Tune, costume (top hats and cutaways) designer Kate Carmel, and the entire cast won Obie Awards in the Distinguished Productions category in 1977."
#17Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 9:31pm
How can Oliver! be done without a boy playing Oliver? I find the idea of a lesbian Tevye to be kind of interesting. Are schools changing the gender of the characters allowed, legally? I've always wondered that.
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#18Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 9:32pm
Ruthless! Sylvia can be a man in drag or a woman.
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#19Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 9:41pm
"How can Oliver! be done without a boy playing Oliver? I find the idea of a lesbian Tevye to be kind of interesting. Are schools changing the gender of the characters allowed, legally? I've always wondered that."
No character genders or sexual orientations were changed ... just some wigs and fake beards. I will say Tevye was not expected to be a girl but someone auditioned and was great, so she got the role. It never seemed THAT strange to me.
I think Oliver being played by a girl is pretty innocuous ... he's a young boy it seems no different than Peter Pan (always) being played by a female actor.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
#20Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 9:54pm
What kind of keys did she sing in? Was it all-belting?
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#21Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/19/15 at 10:00pm
"What kind of keys did she sing in? Was it all-belting?"
Oh I couldn't tell you ... it was 15 years ago and the girl singing it was like 16 years old, a young 16.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
#22Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:54am
I think Chicago would work very well with "Billie Flynn" as the lawyer, instead of "Billy Flynn." Isn't that the show where the "sob sister" is usually played by a guy? Leave her to be female, make "Billie" a female, and you've got a pretty darned good show for a girls' school -- except for the sex parts, of course.
Audrey
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#23Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/21/15 at 1:06am
Could it be Sweet Charity?
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Wilmingtom
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#24Musicals For All Girls High Schools
Posted: 4/21/15 at 2:33am
Cinderella (Enchanted Version)
The Boy Friend
Little Women
Quilters (all female cast)
