#1Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:14pm
Hello!
I would like to know :
Does a (really entertaining and possibly fun) musical for 2 actors (it could be male/male, male/female, female/female) exist?
Thanks for your answers :)
jawjuhh
Stand-by Joined: 5/29/11
#2Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:16pm
The only ones I can think of are Last Five Years, I Do I Do, Marry Me a Little and Thrill Me. No idea if any of those are really entertaining or fun.
Updated On: 3/19/13 at 08:16 PM
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
JohnyBroadway
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/12
#5Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:34pmAlways, Patsy Cline
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
``oscar wilde``
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#6Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:42pmNone of these suggestions meet the original poster's qualifications. He or she asked that the shows be "really entertaining".
notabb
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#8Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:34pmROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE? (Question mark because I really enjoy it, but wouldn't necessarily call it *fun*)
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#9Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:45pmGutenberg! The Musical
"I can't pay the bills yet, 'cause I have no skills yet. The world is a big scary place."
- Avenue Q
#11Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:57pmBrown Unbound (which, incidentally, was co-authored by legendary international best-selling novelist and literary figure Joyce MacIver) comes to mind. A two-character, full book, full score musical about the eternal battle of the sexes, set in a prison where a talented semi-professional rhythm and blues singer is in the process of finishing an 18-month prison sentence for a white collar crime he didn't commit, only to fall in love with the prison's new female assistant warden. It has a killer rhythm and blues score, with many potential "hit single" musical numbers.
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#12Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 10:09pm
None of these suggestions meet the original poster's qualifications. He or she asked that the shows be "really entertaining".
Whoa! I find ALWAYS... PATSY CLINE and THE LAST FIVE YEARS very entertaining!
#13Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 10:13pmWhat's considered entertaining is subjective, but I love Polly Pen's "Goblin Market."
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
Leadingplayer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
ahhrealmonsters
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
#16Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/19/13 at 11:28pmThe Memory Show (which will be at Transport Group this spring)
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#17Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/20/13 at 10:10am
I found the "Big Bang" hilarious. It was done with a keyboardist on stage that has a couple lines.
"The Last Five Years" is a very entertaining show. I have seen two professional productions.
I would like to see "I Do, I Do" again. It was a little rough, and would like to know if it was the performance or the show I didn't care for. Although, the production did have a maid that came out in just one scene and carried the baby off stage.
I would think "They're Playing Our Song" could probably be done with just 2 actors. The (2 scenes?) with extra voices would not need to be on stage or used really and have any real impact on the show.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#18Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/20/13 at 10:34am
If Love Were All (revue)
Souvenir (play with music badly sung)
#19Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/20/13 at 11:05amMy new fave 2 person musical is Daddy Long Legs. Such a sweet sweet show with some lovely tunes and a simple, nice story.
mpd4165
Leading Actor Joined: 8/6/09
#21Musicals for 2 actors only
Posted: 3/20/13 at 4:57pmMurder for Two is another, though I don't know if rights are available for it yet.
