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Plays & Musicals With One Set?

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#1
Posted: 4/28/17 at 10:30pm

Any suggestions or favorites? Thanks in advance!

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#2
Posted: 4/28/17 at 10:59pm

Come From Away. About which context are you asking?

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#3
Posted: 4/28/17 at 11:13pm

Almost any musical or play can be staged with one set if directed properly.

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#4
Posted: 4/28/17 at 11:18pm

Waiting For Godot

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#5
Posted: 4/28/17 at 11:28pm

icecreambenjamin said: "Almost any musical or play can be staged with one set if directed properly.

 

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Great point.

 

A director friend is submitting an application to direct at a local (and very small) 100 seat community theatre. 

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#6
Posted: 5/4/17 at 2:30am

THE FANTASTICKS

CELEBRATION

I DO! I DO!

PHILEMON

....is there some kind of pattern here?

 

Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#7
Posted: 5/4/17 at 2:44am

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Tons of plays really-

The Diary of Anne Frank

Barefoot in the Park

Lend Me A Tenor

Boeing Boeing

Burn This

Rumors

The Innocents

Wait Until Dark

and so on...

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#8
Posted: 5/4/17 at 7:21am

Color purple revival 

the humans

blackbird 

fromt page (for the most part) 

 

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#9
Posted: 5/4/17 at 7:37am

I saw "The Play That Went Wrong" and "Bandstand" last Saturday and they both had only one set.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself - Mickey Mantle
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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#10
Posted: 5/4/17 at 7:37am

I saw "The Play That Went Wrong" and "Bandstand" last Saturday and they both had only one set.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself - Mickey Mantle
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Posted: 5/4/17 at 7:37am
If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself - Mickey Mantle
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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#12
Posted: 5/4/17 at 7:39am

A STEADY RAIN by Keith Huff ( at the Schoenfeld)

THE RIVER by Jez Butterworth ( at Circle in the Square)

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#13
Posted: 5/4/17 at 9:00am

current revival of Glass Menagerie also is as simple with one set as possible; as is Doll's House Part 2. 

Arguably Sunset Bldv, too. 

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#14
Posted: 5/4/17 at 11:09am

NO EXIT

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

THE LITTLE FOXES

THE PIANO LESSON

THE FATHER (STRINDBERG)

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

THE HUMANS

DEATHTRAP

* * *

A CHORUS LINE

INTO THE WOODS

THE WILD PARTY (X2, I BELIEVE)

PIPPIN

GODSPELL

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
 

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#15
Posted: 5/4/17 at 11:21am

I think Daddy Long Legs had one set. I bring it up because it's an example of how much you can do with props and lighting. The audience will suspend their disbelief. 

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#16
Posted: 5/4/17 at 11:55am

The Great Comet is done with one set, but I could see regional theaters doing it with multiple.

If you are looking for plays or musicals that take place in one location.  This season off the top of my head (besides what was listed already) I can think of Jitney, Master Harold and the Boys, Marie & Rosetta, Hedwig (not this season but still fits).

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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#17
Posted: 5/4/17 at 12:51pm

for me, I kind of think Mamma Mia, Hamilton and Kinky Boots are one set, as not much changes, I've only seen Mamma Mia and Kinky Boots 'live' and they are both successful to me, and so is Hamilton from what I've seen.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre
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Plays & Musicals With One Set?#18
Posted: 5/4/17 at 1:22pm

Last one I saw was Blackbird



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